Triple
T5176876
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Douglas Aircraft Company |
E116820
|
entity |
| Predicate | keyPerson |
P256
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Donald Wills Douglas Sr. |
E205731
|
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: Donald Wills Douglas Sr. | Statement: [Douglas Aircraft Company, keyPerson, Donald Wills Douglas Sr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Wills Douglas Sr. Context triple: [Douglas Aircraft Company, keyPerson, Donald Wills Douglas Sr.]
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A.
Donald Wills Douglas Sr.
chosen
Donald Wills Douglas Sr. was an American aircraft designer and industrialist who founded the Douglas Aircraft Company, a major pioneer in commercial and military aviation.
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B.
William E. Boeing
William E. Boeing was an American aviation pioneer and industrialist who founded the Boeing Company, which became one of the world’s largest aerospace manufacturers.
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C.
James Smith McDonnell
James Smith McDonnell was an American aerospace engineer and businessman who founded the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, which later became part of the major aerospace and defense company McDonnell Douglas.
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D.
Glenn L. Martin
Glenn L. Martin was an American aviation pioneer and industrialist who founded one of the early major aircraft manufacturing companies in the United States.
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E.
Walter Watson Hughes
Walter Watson Hughes was a 19th-century Scottish-Australian pastoralist and philanthropist whose substantial donations were pivotal in establishing higher education in South Australia.
- 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_69bd446140f08190becb93c61158f27f |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd7974a5308190819b100e07189131 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 4:44 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bee07a6620819089e2b3fcb322a47e |
completed | March 21, 2026, 6:16 p.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:45 p.m.