Triple

T8668373
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Donald Wills Douglas Sr. E205731 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Donald Wills Douglas Jr.
Donald Wills Douglas Jr. was an American aviation executive who played a key leadership role in the Douglas Aircraft Company founded by his father.
E205731 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: Donald Wills Douglas Jr. | Statement: [Donald Wills Douglas Sr., child, Donald Wills Douglas Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Wills Douglas Jr.
Context triple: [Donald Wills Douglas Sr., child, Donald Wills Douglas Jr.]
  • A. Donald Wills Douglas Sr.
    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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. 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: Donald Wills Douglas Jr.
Triple: [Donald Wills Douglas Sr., child, Donald Wills Douglas Jr.]
Generated description
Donald Wills Douglas Jr. was an American aviation executive who played a key leadership role in the Douglas Aircraft Company founded by his father.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Wills Douglas Jr.
Target entity description: Donald Wills Douglas Jr. was an American aviation executive who played a key leadership role in the Douglas Aircraft Company founded by his father.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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_69ca83516ae88190aefe034b3bc589e3 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc48a48b548190b78259072b1224ee completed March 31, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cef3898bf88190959b361638d032de completed April 2, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cef4cbc0788190bf95aa8058a8d895 completed April 2, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cef830e4e48190bf337a526cc82119 completed April 2, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:31 p.m.