Triple

T225009
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dean Kamen E4294 entity
Predicate notableProject P4 FINISHED
Object Slingshot water purification system
The Slingshot water purification system is a low-cost, portable device invented by Dean Kamen to provide clean drinking water in remote and underserved regions by efficiently purifying contaminated sources.
E28629 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: Slingshot water purification system | Statement: [Dean Kamen, notableProject, Slingshot water purification system]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Slingshot water purification system
Context triple: [Dean Kamen, notableProject, Slingshot water purification system]
  • A. Croton water supply system
    The Croton water supply system is a historic network of reservoirs, aqueducts, and related infrastructure that delivers drinking water from New York’s Croton River watershed to New York City.
  • B. Lightwater
    Lightwater is a village and civil parish in the English county of Surrey, known for its residential character and proximity to heathland and countryside.
  • C. National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
    The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System is a U.S. regulatory permitting program that controls water pollution by regulating point-source discharges of pollutants into waters of the United States.
  • D. Defensive Aids Sub-System
    The Defensive Aids Sub-System is an integrated electronic warfare and self-protection suite designed to detect, identify, and counter threats to the Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4.
  • E. Consumer Council for Water
    The Consumer Council for Water is an independent statutory body that represents and protects the interests of water and sewerage consumers in England and Wales.
  • 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: Slingshot water purification system
Triple: [Dean Kamen, notableProject, Slingshot water purification system]
Generated description
The Slingshot water purification system is a low-cost, portable device invented by Dean Kamen to provide clean drinking water in remote and underserved regions by efficiently purifying contaminated sources.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Slingshot water purification system
Target entity description: The Slingshot water purification system is a low-cost, portable device invented by Dean Kamen to provide clean drinking water in remote and underserved regions by efficiently purifying contaminated sources.
  • A. Croton water supply system
    The Croton water supply system is a historic network of reservoirs, aqueducts, and related infrastructure that delivers drinking water from New York’s Croton River watershed to New York City.
  • B. Lightwater
    Lightwater is a village and civil parish in the English county of Surrey, known for its residential character and proximity to heathland and countryside.
  • C. National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
    The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System is a U.S. regulatory permitting program that controls water pollution by regulating point-source discharges of pollutants into waters of the United States.
  • D. Defensive Aids Sub-System
    The Defensive Aids Sub-System is an integrated electronic warfare and self-protection suite designed to detect, identify, and counter threats to the Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4.
  • E. Consumer Council for Water
    The Consumer Council for Water is an independent statutory body that represents and protects the interests of water and sewerage consumers in England and Wales.
  • 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_69a2573508588190b522c2476d91acfe completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25c8c0b8881908016161568c0cbfb completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a35277532c8190ab2815c63a564e33 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3547eeef88190923f3d7b46e11d7e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a354f267ac8190ace99e80f7c24d45 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:49 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.