Triple

T7490027
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hafele–Keating experiment E176981 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Joseph C. Hafele
Joseph C. Hafele is an American physicist best known for co-conducting the Hafele–Keating experiment that tested time dilation using atomic clocks on circumnavigating airplanes.
E669199 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: Joseph C. Hafele | Statement: [Hafele–Keating experiment, namedAfter, Joseph C. Hafele]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph C. Hafele
Context triple: [Hafele–Keating experiment, namedAfter, Joseph C. Hafele]
  • A. Arthur A. Shurcliff
    Arthur A. Shurcliff was a prominent early 20th-century American landscape architect known for his work on major estates and historic restoration projects, including significant contributions to Colonial Revival design.
  • B. James A. Van Allen
    James A. Van Allen was an American space scientist best known for discovering the Earth's radiation belts, now called the Van Allen belts, and for his pioneering work in early space exploration missions.
  • C. Clayton C. Anderson
    Clayton C. Anderson is a retired NASA astronaut and engineer who spent time aboard the International Space Station and flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions.
  • D. Edwin F. Taylor
    Edwin F. Taylor is an American physicist and educator best known for his influential textbooks and popularizations of special and general relativity.
  • E. George E. Smith
    George E. Smith is an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-inventing the charge-coupled device (CCD), a technology fundamental to digital imaging.
  • 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: Joseph C. Hafele
Triple: [Hafele–Keating experiment, namedAfter, Joseph C. Hafele]
Generated description
Joseph C. Hafele is an American physicist best known for co-conducting the Hafele–Keating experiment that tested time dilation using atomic clocks on circumnavigating airplanes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph C. Hafele
Target entity description: Joseph C. Hafele is an American physicist best known for co-conducting the Hafele–Keating experiment that tested time dilation using atomic clocks on circumnavigating airplanes.
  • A. Arthur A. Shurcliff
    Arthur A. Shurcliff was a prominent early 20th-century American landscape architect known for his work on major estates and historic restoration projects, including significant contributions to Colonial Revival design.
  • B. James A. Van Allen
    James A. Van Allen was an American space scientist best known for discovering the Earth's radiation belts, now called the Van Allen belts, and for his pioneering work in early space exploration missions.
  • C. Clayton C. Anderson
    Clayton C. Anderson is a retired NASA astronaut and engineer who spent time aboard the International Space Station and flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions.
  • D. Edwin F. Taylor
    Edwin F. Taylor is an American physicist and educator best known for his influential textbooks and popularizations of special and general relativity.
  • E. George E. Smith
    George E. Smith is an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-inventing the charge-coupled device (CCD), a technology fundamental to digital imaging.
  • 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_69c69f2583808190bd1a4936c42a5815 completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f55bdb3481908653b46eafba011d completed March 27, 2026, 9:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c83c71f5748190bdda4cf9b8dfc6ea completed March 28, 2026, 8:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c83e7b2ab08190a5ecb9b87af067a5 completed March 28, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c842bad1e8819093bf61d9480dbd22 completed March 28, 2026, 9:06 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:43 p.m.