Triple

T2287
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edwin H. Armstrong E42 entity
Predicate middleName P143 FINISHED
Object Howard
Howard is the middle name of Edwin H. Armstrong, the pioneering American electrical engineer and inventor of FM radio.
E482 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: Howard | Statement: [Edwin H. Armstrong, middleName, Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard
Context triple: [Edwin H. Armstrong, middleName, Howard]
  • A. Andrew
    Andrew is a masculine given name of Greek origin meaning "manly" or "brave," widely used in English-speaking countries and beyond.
  • B. Barack Obama
    Barack Obama is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States and the first African American to hold the office.
  • C. Herbert Hoover
    Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, known for his humanitarian relief efforts during and after World War I and for leading the country at the onset of the Great Depression.
  • D. Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
  • E. John Adams
    John Adams was a Founding Father of the United States who served as the nation’s second president and was a leading advocate for independence and republican government.
  • 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: Howard
Triple: [Edwin H. Armstrong, middleName, Howard]
Generated description
Howard is the middle name of Edwin H. Armstrong, the pioneering American electrical engineer and inventor of FM radio.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard
Target entity description: Howard is the middle name of Edwin H. Armstrong, the pioneering American electrical engineer and inventor of FM radio.
  • A. Andrew
    Andrew is a masculine given name of Greek origin meaning "manly" or "brave," widely used in English-speaking countries and beyond.
  • B. Barack Obama
    Barack Obama is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States and the first African American to hold the office.
  • C. Herbert Hoover
    Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, known for his humanitarian relief efforts during and after World War I and for leading the country at the onset of the Great Depression.
  • D. Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
  • E. John Adams
    John Adams was a Founding Father of the United States who served as the nation’s second president and was a leading advocate for independence and republican government.
  • 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_69a22cde80848190b62c5f556b4d62ba completed Feb. 27, 2026, 11:46 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a232e673a881909276dbf9c37bbff6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a23d860c2881909010e0310acaf10f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a23ffe6b4081908f9d04b169a7bed8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2406bedd081909e8704cef5ab08dd completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:10 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 27, 2026, 11:48 p.m.