Triple

T13694538
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hidden Figures E328350 entity
Predicate mainSubject P3 FINISHED
Object Dorothy Vaughan
Dorothy Vaughan was an African American mathematician and NASA “human computer” who became one of the agency’s first Black female supervisors and a pioneering expert in early computer programming.
E1054538 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: Dorothy Vaughan | Statement: [Hidden Figures, mainSubject, Dorothy Vaughan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dorothy Vaughan
Context triple: [Hidden Figures, mainSubject, Dorothy Vaughan]
  • A. Katherine Johnson
    Katherine Johnson was an African American mathematician whose critical orbital mechanics calculations for NASA enabled early U.S. crewed spaceflights, including John Glenn’s historic mission.
  • B. Mary Evelyn Pickering
    Mary Evelyn Pickering, better known as Evelyn De Morgan, was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter renowned for her allegorical and spiritually themed works.
  • C. Henrietta Hill Swope
    Henrietta Hill Swope was an American astronomer known for her pioneering work on variable stars and for being one of the first women to make significant contributions to modern observational astronomy.
  • D. Margaret Swope
    Margaret Swope was the wife of prominent American editor and journalist Herbert Bayard Swope, associated with early 20th-century New York society.
  • E. Margaret Hamilton
    Margaret Hamilton was an American character actress best known for her iconic portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West in the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz."
  • 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: Dorothy Vaughan
Triple: [Hidden Figures, mainSubject, Dorothy Vaughan]
Generated description
Dorothy Vaughan was an African American mathematician and NASA “human computer” who became one of the agency’s first Black female supervisors and a pioneering expert in early computer programming.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dorothy Vaughan
Target entity description: Dorothy Vaughan was an African American mathematician and NASA “human computer” who became one of the agency’s first Black female supervisors and a pioneering expert in early computer programming.
  • A. Katherine Johnson
    Katherine Johnson was an African American mathematician whose critical orbital mechanics calculations for NASA enabled early U.S. crewed spaceflights, including John Glenn’s historic mission.
  • B. Mary Evelyn Pickering
    Mary Evelyn Pickering, better known as Evelyn De Morgan, was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter renowned for her allegorical and spiritually themed works.
  • C. Henrietta Hill Swope
    Henrietta Hill Swope was an American astronomer known for her pioneering work on variable stars and for being one of the first women to make significant contributions to modern observational astronomy.
  • D. Margaret Swope
    Margaret Swope was the wife of prominent American editor and journalist Herbert Bayard Swope, associated with early 20th-century New York society.
  • E. Margaret Hamilton
    Margaret Hamilton was an American character actress best known for her iconic portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West in the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz."
  • 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_69d8076ff62081908a7bd79889edd7a0 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbc8757b648190a26181efbad09a43 completed April 12, 2026, 4:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f794514afc8190b334b1fc74a6cdd5 completed May 3, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f795e361c48190b37060312e7df181 completed May 3, 2026, 6:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f796e5c60c8190a19389bc4cdbd658 completed May 3, 2026, 6:41 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:54 p.m.