Triple
T16229581
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | VSS Enterprise |
E393943
|
entity |
| Predicate | designer |
P184
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Burt Rutan |
E90338
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Burt Rutan | Statement: [VSS Enterprise, designer, Burt Rutan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Burt Rutan Context triple: [VSS Enterprise, designer, Burt Rutan]
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A.
Burt Rutan
chosen
Burt Rutan is an innovative American aerospace engineer and aircraft designer renowned for pioneering unconventional composite aircraft and private spaceflight vehicles such as SpaceShipOne.
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B.
Charles Hercules Rutan
Charles Hercules Rutan was an American architect best known as a partner in the influential late-19th- and early-20th-century firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, successors to H. H. Richardson.
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C.
Richard T. Whitcomb
Richard T. Whitcomb was an influential American aeronautical engineer best known for pioneering the area rule, supercritical airfoils, and winglets, which significantly improved aircraft performance.
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D.
Clarence "Kelly" Johnson
Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was a pioneering American aerospace engineer and head of Lockheed's Skunk Works, renowned for leading the design of advanced aircraft such as the U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird.
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E.
Robert Parsons
Robert Parsons was a prominent 16th-century English Jesuit priest and influential counter-Reformation figure known for his political and religious writings against Elizabethan Protestantism.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d87f204df88190a8f88923decf9835 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e23d2889688190ac04e4e9479cabf4 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:01 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a00079e83f08190a260751fd8b55eef |
completed | May 10, 2026, 4:20 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:03 a.m.