Triple

T4855118
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David M. Brown E108517 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object David McDowell Brown
David McDowell Brown was a United States Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew as a mission specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission.
 E486440 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: David McDowell Brown | Statement: [David M. Brown, fullName, David McDowell Brown]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David McDowell Brown
Context triple: [David M. Brown, fullName, David McDowell Brown]
  • A. James McDowell
    James McDowell was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Virginia and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • B. Thomas J. Brown
    Thomas J. Brown is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the diocesan leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine.
  • C. William Lee Scott
    William Lee Scott is an American actor known for his roles in films like "The Opposite of Sex" and the television series "The Steve Harvey Show."
  • D. David Hilliard
    David Hilliard is an American activist and former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party, known for his prominent role in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. Thomas McElwee
    Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: David McDowell Brown
Triple: [David M. Brown, fullName, David McDowell Brown]
Generated description
David McDowell Brown was a United States Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew as a mission specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David McDowell Brown
Target entity description: David McDowell Brown was a United States Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew as a mission specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission.
  • A. James McDowell
    James McDowell was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Virginia and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • B. Thomas J. Brown
    Thomas J. Brown is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the diocesan leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine.
  • C. William Lee Scott
    William Lee Scott is an American actor known for his roles in films like "The Opposite of Sex" and the television series "The Steve Harvey Show."
  • D. David Hilliard
    David Hilliard is an American activist and former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party, known for his prominent role in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. Thomas McElwee
    Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69bd440a89548190a5f14ba6da6b97dc completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d3c9d7881908c04cef2cb7db745 completed March 20, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be9232aa3081908d08c64d71a9e3cf completed March 21, 2026, 12:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be9439bc248190a1c03ce2a941e313 completed March 21, 2026, 12:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be94979ec08190907d28cd38ade77b completed March 21, 2026, 12:52 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:26 p.m.