Triple

T255086
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Space Needle E5419 entity
Predicate developer P73 FINISHED
Object Edward E. Carlson
Edward E. Carlson was an American hotel executive and civic leader best known for conceiving and championing the Space Needle as the centerpiece of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.
E114061 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: Edward E. Carlson | Statement: [Space Needle, developer, Edward E. Carlson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward E. Carlson
Context triple: [Space Needle, developer, Edward E. Carlson]
  • A. George L. Dahl
    George L. Dahl was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for shaping much of Dallas’s skyline and major civic landmarks.
  • B. Roger D. Lapham
    Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
  • C. 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.
  • D. John Clarence Karcher
    John Clarence Karcher was an American geophysicist and pioneer of reflection seismology whose work helped lay the foundations of modern petroleum exploration.
  • E. Culbert Olson
    Culbert Olson was a Democratic politician who served as the 29th governor of California from 1939 to 1943 and was known for his progressive and secular views.
  • 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: Edward E. Carlson
Triple: [Space Needle, developer, Edward E. Carlson]
Generated description
Edward E. Carlson was an American hotel executive and civic leader best known for conceiving and championing the Space Needle as the centerpiece of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward E. Carlson
Target entity description: Edward E. Carlson was an American hotel executive and civic leader best known for conceiving and championing the Space Needle as the centerpiece of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.
  • A. George L. Dahl
    George L. Dahl was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for shaping much of Dallas’s skyline and major civic landmarks.
  • B. Roger D. Lapham
    Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
  • C. 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.
  • D. John Clarence Karcher
    John Clarence Karcher was an American geophysicist and pioneer of reflection seismology whose work helped lay the foundations of modern petroleum exploration.
  • E. Culbert Olson
    Culbert Olson was a Democratic politician who served as the 29th governor of California from 1939 to 1943 and was known for his progressive and secular views.
  • 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_69ac16eebaa48190acb66cb50c02ed7f completed March 7, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac1787a9ac81908f032cd893d3efe8 completed March 7, 2026, 12:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac1807aa388190ad2910966c9d1b04 completed March 7, 2026, 12:20 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:55 a.m.