Triple

T5908850
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rolls-Royce Nene E131409 entity
Predicate licenseBuiltAs P8255 FINISHED
Object Pratt & Whitney J42
The Pratt & Whitney J42 was an early American turbojet engine, produced under license from the British Rolls-Royce Nene and used to power several post–World War II U.S. Navy fighter aircraft.
 E560466 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: Pratt & Whitney J42 | Statement: [Rolls-Royce Nene, licenseBuiltAs, Pratt & Whitney J42]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Pratt & Whitney J42
Context triple: [Rolls-Royce Nene, licenseBuiltAs, Pratt & Whitney J42]
  • A. Pratt & Whitney JT3C
    The Pratt & Whitney JT3C is an early American turbojet engine that powered first-generation jet airliners and military aircraft in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
  • B. Pratt & Whitney JT3D
    The Pratt & Whitney JT3D is an early low-bypass turbofan jet engine widely used on first-generation jet airliners such as the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8.
  • C. Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior
    The Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior is a nine-cylinder, air-cooled radial aircraft engine widely used in the 1930s–1950s to power light transports, trainers, and utility aircraft.
  • D. Pratt & Whitney J57
    The Pratt & Whitney J57 is a pioneering American axial-flow turbojet engine widely used in early Cold War military aircraft and notable as one of the first jet engines to produce over 10,000 pounds of thrust.
  • E. Pratt & Whitney R-2000 Twin Wasp
    The Pratt & Whitney R-2000 Twin Wasp is a 14-cylinder, air-cooled radial aircraft engine developed in the 1940s and widely used in medium and large transport aircraft of the era.
  • 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: Pratt & Whitney J42
Triple: [Rolls-Royce Nene, licenseBuiltAs, Pratt & Whitney J42]
Generated description
The Pratt & Whitney J42 was an early American turbojet engine, produced under license from the British Rolls-Royce Nene and used to power several post–World War II U.S. Navy fighter aircraft.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Pratt & Whitney J42
Target entity description: The Pratt & Whitney J42 was an early American turbojet engine, produced under license from the British Rolls-Royce Nene and used to power several post–World War II U.S. Navy fighter aircraft.
  • A. Pratt & Whitney JT3C
    The Pratt & Whitney JT3C is an early American turbojet engine that powered first-generation jet airliners and military aircraft in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
  • B. Pratt & Whitney JT3D
    The Pratt & Whitney JT3D is an early low-bypass turbofan jet engine widely used on first-generation jet airliners such as the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8.
  • C. Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior
    The Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior is a nine-cylinder, air-cooled radial aircraft engine widely used in the 1930s–1950s to power light transports, trainers, and utility aircraft.
  • D. Pratt & Whitney J57
    The Pratt & Whitney J57 is a pioneering American axial-flow turbojet engine widely used in early Cold War military aircraft and notable as one of the first jet engines to produce over 10,000 pounds of thrust.
  • E. Pratt & Whitney R-2000 Twin Wasp
    The Pratt & Whitney R-2000 Twin Wasp is a 14-cylinder, air-cooled radial aircraft engine developed in the 1940s and widely used in medium and large transport aircraft of the era.
  • 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_69c008593a44819081a07ae0efe6c574 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c03773f4188190a11276b2d5baad08 completed March 22, 2026, 6:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c1080a949c8190a9902f6da45e27a8 completed March 23, 2026, 9:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c1094d6d408190abde0d2e582c15a5 completed March 23, 2026, 9:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c109c333208190b90911e0cab58377 completed March 23, 2026, 9:37 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:59 p.m.