Triple

T4966382
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Theodore von Kármán E111535 entity
Predicate notableStudent P4838 FINISHED
Object Tsien Hsue-shen
Tsien Hsue-shen was a pioneering Chinese aerospace engineer and rocket scientist who played a foundational role in both early American rocketry and the development of China’s missile and space programs.
E483177 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: Tsien Hsue-shen | Statement: [Theodore von Kármán, notableStudent, Tsien Hsue-shen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tsien Hsue-shen
Context triple: [Theodore von Kármán, notableStudent, Tsien Hsue-shen]
  • A. L. C. Pei
    L. C. Pei is a Chinese-American architect best known for designing the iconic Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong.
  • B. Zhu Guangya
    Zhu Guangya was a prominent Chinese nuclear physicist and key architect of China’s nuclear weapons and energy programs.
  • C. Chen Yongren
    Chen Yongren is the undercover police officer protagonist of the Hong Kong crime thriller "Infernal Affairs," whose character later inspired Billy Costigan in the American remake "The Departed."
  • D. Peng Shilu
    Peng Shilu was a pioneering Chinese nuclear engineer widely regarded as the "father of China's nuclear submarines" for his leading role in developing the country's first nuclear-powered subs.
  • E. Liu Songlin
    Liu Songlin was the wife of Mao Anqing, the second son of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong.
  • 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: Tsien Hsue-shen
Triple: [Theodore von Kármán, notableStudent, Tsien Hsue-shen]
Generated description
Tsien Hsue-shen was a pioneering Chinese aerospace engineer and rocket scientist who played a foundational role in both early American rocketry and the development of China’s missile and space programs.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tsien Hsue-shen
Target entity description: Tsien Hsue-shen was a pioneering Chinese aerospace engineer and rocket scientist who played a foundational role in both early American rocketry and the development of China’s missile and space programs.
  • A. L. C. Pei
    L. C. Pei is a Chinese-American architect best known for designing the iconic Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong.
  • B. Zhu Guangya
    Zhu Guangya was a prominent Chinese nuclear physicist and key architect of China’s nuclear weapons and energy programs.
  • C. Chen Yongren
    Chen Yongren is the undercover police officer protagonist of the Hong Kong crime thriller "Infernal Affairs," whose character later inspired Billy Costigan in the American remake "The Departed."
  • D. Peng Shilu
    Peng Shilu was a pioneering Chinese nuclear engineer widely regarded as the "father of China's nuclear submarines" for his leading role in developing the country's first nuclear-powered subs.
  • E. Liu Songlin
    Liu Songlin was the wife of Mao Anqing, the second son of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong.
  • 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.