Triple

T1617690
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Columbia Accident Investigation Board E34756 entity
Predicate member P10 FINISHED
Object Kenneth W. Hess
Kenneth W. Hess is an aerospace and safety expert who served on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board that examined the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
E275234 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: Kenneth W. Hess | Statement: [Columbia Accident Investigation Board, member, Kenneth W. Hess]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth W. Hess
Context triple: [Columbia Accident Investigation Board, member, Kenneth W. Hess]
  • A. James D. Stern
    James D. Stern is an American film producer and director known for backing a range of acclaimed independent and genre films, as well as documentaries.
  • B. Philip M. Kaiser
    Philip M. Kaiser was an American diplomat and public servant who held several key ambassadorial posts during the Cold War era.
  • C. H. Craig Severance
    H. Craig Severance was an American architect known for his prominent early 20th-century skyscraper designs in New York City.
  • D. Donald F. Hornig
    Donald F. Hornig was an American chemist and science advisor who served as a key presidential science counselor, notably to President Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • E. Kenneth N. Stevens
    Kenneth N. Stevens was a pioneering acoustician and speech scientist renowned for his foundational work on the acoustic theory of speech production and perception.
  • 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: Kenneth W. Hess
Triple: [Columbia Accident Investigation Board, member, Kenneth W. Hess]
Generated description
Kenneth W. Hess is an aerospace and safety expert who served on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board that examined the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth W. Hess
Target entity description: Kenneth W. Hess is an aerospace and safety expert who served on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board that examined the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
  • A. James D. Stern
    James D. Stern is an American film producer and director known for backing a range of acclaimed independent and genre films, as well as documentaries.
  • B. Philip M. Kaiser
    Philip M. Kaiser was an American diplomat and public servant who held several key ambassadorial posts during the Cold War era.
  • C. H. Craig Severance
    H. Craig Severance was an American architect known for his prominent early 20th-century skyscraper designs in New York City.
  • D. Donald F. Hornig
    Donald F. Hornig was an American chemist and science advisor who served as a key presidential science counselor, notably to President Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • E. Kenneth N. Stevens
    Kenneth N. Stevens was a pioneering acoustician and speech scientist renowned for his foundational work on the acoustic theory of speech production and perception.
  • 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_69a885ffc5ec819091afa325d5f9611c completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a909addb348190a80a97422efcaa63 completed March 5, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af2b42bb888190a0b16e3a59eb1175 completed March 9, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af50f642788190afd3663bd4d43ae4 completed March 9, 2026, 11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af51ca7024819085f371a0ef85d9c2 completed March 9, 2026, 11:03 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:28 p.m.