Triple
T20280327
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Flying Saucers from Outer Space |
E503122
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Donald Keyhoe |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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: Donald Keyhoe | Statement: [Flying Saucers from Outer Space, author, Donald Keyhoe]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Keyhoe Context triple: [Flying Saucers from Outer Space, author, Donald Keyhoe]
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A.
Donald Keyhoe
chosen
Donald Keyhoe was an American Marine Corps officer-turned-author best known as an early and influential proponent of the idea that UFOs were real and possibly extraterrestrial.
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B.
Willy Ley
Willy Ley was a German-American science writer and spaceflight advocate who played a key role in popularizing rocketry and space exploration in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Thomas T. Goldsmith
Thomas T. Goldsmith was an American physicist, television pioneer, and co-inventor of one of the earliest known video games.
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D.
Carl Kurlander
Carl Kurlander is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing the 1985 Brat Pack film "St. Elmo's Fire" and for his work in film and television.
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E.
William Binney
William Binney is a former high-ranking NSA official turned whistleblower who exposed mass surveillance practices and became a prominent advocate for privacy and civil liberties.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e0b4b0e79c8190bd61f22ef1329fa8 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6768ddfd0819098b2cc7fed0f4fe2 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 6:55 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 10:36 a.m.