Triple

T6712096
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Civil Air Transport E153168 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Whiting Willauer
Whiting Willauer was an American lawyer, diplomat, and intelligence operative best known for his role in founding and directing Civil Air Transport, an airline closely linked to early CIA operations in Asia.
E613134 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: Whiting Willauer | Statement: [Civil Air Transport, foundedBy, Whiting Willauer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whiting Willauer
Context triple: [Civil Air Transport, foundedBy, Whiting Willauer]
  • A. Hill Patwin
    Hill Patwin is a variety of the Patwin language traditionally spoken by the Patwin people of Northern California and classified within the California Penutian language family.
  • B. Willard Nico
    Willard Nico was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 satirical film "The Great Dictator."
  • C. Boone Hogganbeck
    Boone Hogganbeck is a reckless, hard-driving young man who serves as one of the central comic and adventurous figures in William Faulkner’s novel "The Reivers."
  • D. Leland Palmer
    Leland Palmer is an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for her work in musical theatre and film during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. Weir Cook
    Weir Cook was a pioneering American aviator and World War I flying ace from Indiana, honored for his contributions to aviation and military service.
  • 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: Whiting Willauer
Triple: [Civil Air Transport, foundedBy, Whiting Willauer]
Generated description
Whiting Willauer was an American lawyer, diplomat, and intelligence operative best known for his role in founding and directing Civil Air Transport, an airline closely linked to early CIA operations in Asia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whiting Willauer
Target entity description: Whiting Willauer was an American lawyer, diplomat, and intelligence operative best known for his role in founding and directing Civil Air Transport, an airline closely linked to early CIA operations in Asia.
  • A. Hill Patwin
    Hill Patwin is a variety of the Patwin language traditionally spoken by the Patwin people of Northern California and classified within the California Penutian language family.
  • B. Willard Nico
    Willard Nico was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 satirical film "The Great Dictator."
  • C. Boone Hogganbeck
    Boone Hogganbeck is a reckless, hard-driving young man who serves as one of the central comic and adventurous figures in William Faulkner’s novel "The Reivers."
  • D. Leland Palmer
    Leland Palmer is an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for her work in musical theatre and film during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. Weir Cook
    Weir Cook was a pioneering American aviator and World War I flying ace from Indiana, honored for his contributions to aviation and military service.
  • 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_69c68808d8d8819087369015270788fe completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d108acc08190b38b43161d8912b9 completed March 27, 2026, 6:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c700924fdc8190990187fbc1b3ab20 completed March 27, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c70386196c81909d46894f783ef87a completed March 27, 2026, 10:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7045cda0481908982c7c7e8dc11e5 completed March 27, 2026, 10:27 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:07 p.m.