Triple

T4966381
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Theodore von Kármán E111535 entity
Predicate notableStudent P4838 FINISHED
Object Hugh Dryden
Hugh Dryden was an influential American aeronautical engineer and NASA deputy administrator who made major contributions to fluid dynamics and high-speed flight research.
E483176 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: Hugh Dryden | Statement: [Theodore von Kármán, notableStudent, Hugh Dryden]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hugh Dryden
Context triple: [Theodore von Kármán, notableStudent, Hugh Dryden]
  • A. Wheeler Dryden
    Wheeler Dryden was an English actor and film director of the silent era, best known as a half-brother of Charlie Chaplin and for his work in Chaplin’s film company.
  • B. Ward Bond
    Ward Bond was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in classic Hollywood films and the television series "Wagon Train."
  • C. Walter S. Gifford
    Walter S. Gifford was an American businessman and executive who served as president of AT&T and held prominent government advisory roles, particularly during World War I and the interwar period.
  • D. Clarence S. Luce
    Clarence S. Luce was an American architect known for his late 19th-century residential designs in New York City, including the distinguished townhouses of Strivers’ Row in Harlem.
  • E. Hank Corwin
    Hank Corwin is an acclaimed American film editor known for his impressionistic, nonlinear cutting style on films such as The Tree of Life, The Big Short, and Vice.
  • 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: Hugh Dryden
Triple: [Theodore von Kármán, notableStudent, Hugh Dryden]
Generated description
Hugh Dryden was an influential American aeronautical engineer and NASA deputy administrator who made major contributions to fluid dynamics and high-speed flight research.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hugh Dryden
Target entity description: Hugh Dryden was an influential American aeronautical engineer and NASA deputy administrator who made major contributions to fluid dynamics and high-speed flight research.
  • A. Wheeler Dryden
    Wheeler Dryden was an English actor and film director of the silent era, best known as a half-brother of Charlie Chaplin and for his work in Chaplin’s film company.
  • B. Ward Bond
    Ward Bond was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in classic Hollywood films and the television series "Wagon Train."
  • C. Walter S. Gifford
    Walter S. Gifford was an American businessman and executive who served as president of AT&T and held prominent government advisory roles, particularly during World War I and the interwar period.
  • D. Clarence S. Luce
    Clarence S. Luce was an American architect known for his late 19th-century residential designs in New York City, including the distinguished townhouses of Strivers’ Row in Harlem.
  • E. Hank Corwin
    Hank Corwin is an acclaimed American film editor known for his impressionistic, nonlinear cutting style on films such as The Tree of Life, The Big Short, and Vice.
  • 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_69bd4419393c819086319a6fe4bf8542 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd71f7ae388190b752770bf577906f completed March 20, 2026, 4:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be81f13988819097dcd5a65cb1f502 completed March 21, 2026, 11:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be83b10e048190889289ac2ca9f07f completed March 21, 2026, 11:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be843e2e50819099b2b73498c7c16e completed March 21, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:32 p.m.