Triple

T255083
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Space Needle E5419 entity
Predicate structuralEngineer P616 FINISHED
Object John K. Minasian
John K. Minasian was an American structural engineer best known for helping design Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
E44019 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: John K. Minasian | Statement: [Space Needle, structuralEngineer, John K. Minasian]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John K. Minasian
Context triple: [Space Needle, structuralEngineer, John K. Minasian]
  • A. Alan M. Garber
    Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
  • B. William Simon
    William Simon was an American banker and public official who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in the 1970s and became a prominent advocate of free-market economics.
  • C. Patrick E. Haggerty
    Patrick E. Haggerty was an American engineer and business executive who played a pivotal role in the early semiconductor industry and the growth of Texas Instruments into a major technology company.
  • D. John V. L. Hogan
    John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
  • E. Hartland Snyder
    Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist known for his early work on black hole physics and for being one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s notable doctoral students.
  • 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: John K. Minasian
Triple: [Space Needle, structuralEngineer, John K. Minasian]
Generated description
John K. Minasian was an American structural engineer best known for helping design Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John K. Minasian
Target entity description: John K. Minasian was an American structural engineer best known for helping design Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
  • A. Alan M. Garber
    Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
  • B. William Simon
    William Simon was an American banker and public official who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in the 1970s and became a prominent advocate of free-market economics.
  • C. Patrick E. Haggerty
    Patrick E. Haggerty was an American engineer and business executive who played a pivotal role in the early semiconductor industry and the growth of Texas Instruments into a major technology company.
  • D. John V. L. Hogan
    John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
  • E. Hartland Snyder
    Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist known for his early work on black hole physics and for being one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s notable doctoral students.
  • 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_69a2580a64ac8190ad76e34bb0715b5e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25d5669008190978bbd7308be11f7 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3d7e0801c8190aa1f1c5f8d5bc3cb completed March 1, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3d863606481908683f219bfc64d5a completed March 1, 2026, 6:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3d8faf9188190b472a21361ee97a5 completed March 1, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:55 a.m.