Triple
T3918988
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility |
E88912
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Katherine Johnson |
E205226
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 steps)
Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.
NER
Named-entity recognition
gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Katherine Johnson | Statement: [Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility, namedAfter, Katherine Johnson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Katherine Johnson Context triple: [Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility, namedAfter, Katherine Johnson]
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A.
Katherine Johnson
chosen
Katherine Johnson was an African American mathematician whose critical orbital mechanics calculations for NASA enabled early U.S. crewed spaceflights, including John Glenn’s historic mission.
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B.
Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton was an American character actress best known for her iconic portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West in the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz."
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C.
Jean Terrell
Jean Terrell is an American singer best known as the lead vocalist of The Supremes in the early 1970s following Diana Ross’s departure.
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D.
Elizabeth Mattingly
Elizabeth Mattingly is known as the wife of former NASA astronaut and Apollo program command module pilot Ken Mattingly.
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E.
Nancy Grace Roman
Nancy Grace Roman was an American astronomer known as the “Mother of Hubble” for her pioneering role in developing NASA’s space-based astronomy program and championing the Hubble Space Telescope.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 batches)
The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.
| Step | Stage | Batch ID | Status | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| creating | Elicitation | batch_69aed955229881909e85e73ffab1d343 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aeed59485c819095c58edd053e3401 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 3:55 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b5286830d08190bd6e583360136342 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 9:20 a.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:22 p.m.