Triple

T16719819
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Army Ballistic Missile Agency E406318 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Major General John B. Medaris
Major General John B. Medaris was a U.S. Army officer who played a key leadership role in America’s early ballistic missile and space programs during the Cold War.
E1230974 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: Major General John B. Medaris | Statement: [Army Ballistic Missile Agency, commander, Major General John B. Medaris]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major General John B. Medaris
Context triple: [Army Ballistic Missile Agency, commander, Major General John B. Medaris]
  • A. Major General John P. Lucas
    Major General John P. Lucas was a U.S. Army officer in World War II best known for leading the VI Corps during the Allied landings at Anzio in the Italian Campaign.
  • B. Major General Charles S. Kilburn
    Major General Charles S. Kilburn was a U.S. Army officer who led American armored forces in Europe during World War II, notably commanding the 11th Armored Division in combat.
  • C. Major General William H. French
    Major General William H. French was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War who commanded infantry corps and divisions in major Eastern Theater battles.
  • D. Major General William H. Tunner
    Major General William H. Tunner was a U.S. Air Force officer renowned as a pioneering airlift commander, best known for orchestrating large-scale air supply operations such as the Berlin Airlift.
  • E. Major General Eugene M. Landrum
    Major General Eugene M. Landrum was a senior U.S. Army officer who commanded combat units in the European Theater during World War II.
  • 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: Major General John B. Medaris
Triple: [Army Ballistic Missile Agency, commander, Major General John B. Medaris]
Generated description
Major General John B. Medaris was a U.S. Army officer who played a key leadership role in America’s early ballistic missile and space programs during the Cold War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major General John B. Medaris
Target entity description: Major General John B. Medaris was a U.S. Army officer who played a key leadership role in America’s early ballistic missile and space programs during the Cold War.
  • A. Major General John P. Lucas
    Major General John P. Lucas was a U.S. Army officer in World War II best known for leading the VI Corps during the Allied landings at Anzio in the Italian Campaign.
  • B. Major General Charles S. Kilburn
    Major General Charles S. Kilburn was a U.S. Army officer who led American armored forces in Europe during World War II, notably commanding the 11th Armored Division in combat.
  • C. Major General William H. French
    Major General William H. French was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War who commanded infantry corps and divisions in major Eastern Theater battles.
  • D. Major General William H. Tunner
    Major General William H. Tunner was a U.S. Air Force officer renowned as a pioneering airlift commander, best known for orchestrating large-scale air supply operations such as the Berlin Airlift.
  • E. Major General Eugene M. Landrum
    Major General Eugene M. Landrum was a senior U.S. Army officer who commanded combat units in the European Theater during World War II.
  • 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_69d8838f242881908abd8bc138795886 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3865855108190bf8767b7b6c5fa10 completed April 18, 2026, 1:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a009d3f776c8190865a669fc63056b3 completed May 10, 2026, 2:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a009e5990ac81909d2a990f8101e4bc completed May 10, 2026, 3:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a009ef7d13081908ea758cd2cc11995 completed May 10, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:20 a.m.