Triple

T5703632
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Northrop Grumman Corporation E125729 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Leroy Grumman
Leroy Grumman was an American aeronautical engineer and industrialist who founded the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, a key predecessor to Northrop Grumman and a major supplier of military and civilian aircraft.
E539754 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: Leroy Grumman | Statement: [Northrop Grumman Corporation, foundedBy, Leroy Grumman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Leroy Grumman
Context triple: [Northrop Grumman Corporation, foundedBy, Leroy Grumman]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Clarence "Kelly" Johnson
    Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was a pioneering American aerospace engineer and head of Lockheed's Skunk Works, renowned for leading the design of advanced aircraft such as the U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird.
  • E. Harold LeMay
    Harold LeMay was an American businessman and avid car collector best known for assembling one of the world’s largest private automobile collections, which became the basis for LeMay – America’s Car Museum.
  • 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: Leroy Grumman
Triple: [Northrop Grumman Corporation, foundedBy, Leroy Grumman]
Generated description
Leroy Grumman was an American aeronautical engineer and industrialist who founded the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, a key predecessor to Northrop Grumman and a major supplier of military and civilian aircraft.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Leroy Grumman
Target entity description: Leroy Grumman was an American aeronautical engineer and industrialist who founded the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, a key predecessor to Northrop Grumman and a major supplier of military and civilian aircraft.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Clarence "Kelly" Johnson
    Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was a pioneering American aerospace engineer and head of Lockheed's Skunk Works, renowned for leading the design of advanced aircraft such as the U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird.
  • E. Harold LeMay
    Harold LeMay was an American businessman and avid car collector best known for assembling one of the world’s largest private automobile collections, which became the basis for LeMay – America’s Car Museum.
  • 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_69c0082c96988190b3a6a201edce472a completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02456efb48190bf3aaabcc77cda92 completed March 22, 2026, 5:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c05a638f2881908a7eb9274f000138 completed March 22, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c05c75179c819085bf56340363b48c completed March 22, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c05d2b67888190bc89e4cbd384c15f completed March 22, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:45 p.m.