Triple

T926639
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject ASME Medal E19997 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán was a pioneering Hungarian-American aerospace engineer and physicist whose work in aerodynamics and fluid mechanics fundamentally shaped modern aviation and spaceflight.
E111535 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: Theodore von Kármán | Statement: [ASME Medal, notableRecipient, Theodore von Kármán]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodore von Kármán
Context triple: [ASME Medal, notableRecipient, Theodore von Kármán]
  • A. Robert F. Christy
    Robert F. Christy was a Canadian-American theoretical physicist best known for his key role in the Manhattan Project, including designing the "Christy pit" core used in the Trinity test and the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
  • B. Wernher von Braun
    Wernher von Braun was a German-American aerospace engineer and pioneering rocket scientist who led the development of both Nazi Germany’s V-2 missile and NASA’s Saturn V rocket that enabled the Apollo Moon landings.
  • C. Charles Stark Draper
    Charles Stark Draper was an American engineer and scientist renowned as the "father of inertial navigation" for his pioneering work in guidance and control systems.
  • D. Robert H. Goddard
    Robert H. Goddard was an American physicist and engineer widely regarded as the father of modern rocketry for pioneering the development of liquid-fueled rockets.
  • E. Lyman Spitzer Jr.
    Lyman Spitzer Jr. was an influential American astrophysicist best known for his pioneering work on interstellar matter and for conceiving and advocating the development of space-based telescopes, including what became the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • 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: Theodore von Kármán
Triple: [ASME Medal, notableRecipient, Theodore von Kármán]
Generated description
Theodore von Kármán was a pioneering Hungarian-American aerospace engineer and physicist whose work in aerodynamics and fluid mechanics fundamentally shaped modern aviation and spaceflight.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodore von Kármán
Target entity description: Theodore von Kármán was a pioneering Hungarian-American aerospace engineer and physicist whose work in aerodynamics and fluid mechanics fundamentally shaped modern aviation and spaceflight.
  • A. Robert F. Christy
    Robert F. Christy was a Canadian-American theoretical physicist best known for his key role in the Manhattan Project, including designing the "Christy pit" core used in the Trinity test and the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
  • B. Wernher von Braun
    Wernher von Braun was a German-American aerospace engineer and pioneering rocket scientist who led the development of both Nazi Germany’s V-2 missile and NASA’s Saturn V rocket that enabled the Apollo Moon landings.
  • C. Charles Stark Draper
    Charles Stark Draper was an American engineer and scientist renowned as the "father of inertial navigation" for his pioneering work in guidance and control systems.
  • D. Robert H. Goddard
    Robert H. Goddard was an American physicist and engineer widely regarded as the father of modern rocketry for pioneering the development of liquid-fueled rockets.
  • E. Lyman Spitzer Jr.
    Lyman Spitzer Jr. was an influential American astrophysicist best known for his pioneering work on interstellar matter and for conceiving and advocating the development of space-based telescopes, including what became the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • 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_69a493a099788190a696d9d8408cbaf4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b32c5b508190a570c94a6647ba70 completed March 1, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a826dc111881908f4e2a0914eb2202 completed March 4, 2026, 12:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a84d39b3b881909ba8d1c4a4757ede completed March 4, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a84dbeef6c81908dd6593722dfb52b completed March 4, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.