Triple

T602413
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Enola Gay E11520 entity
Predicate crewPositionOnHiroshimaMission P17889 FINISHED
Object weaponeer: William S. Parsons
William S. Parsons was a U.S. Navy rear admiral and ordnance expert who oversaw the development and arming of the atomic bomb used in the Hiroshima mission.
E75421 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: weaponeer: William S. Parsons | Statement: [Enola Gay, crewPositionOnHiroshimaMission, weaponeer: William S. Parsons]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: weaponeer: William S. Parsons
Context triple: [Enola Gay, crewPositionOnHiroshimaMission, weaponeer: William S. Parsons]
  • A. Robert Pigot
    Robert Pigot was a British Army officer best known for his role as a commanding officer during the early battles of the American Revolutionary War.
  • B. Jacob Wrey Mould
    Jacob Wrey Mould was a 19th-century British-born architect and designer known for his ornate, polychromatic work on major New York City landmarks, including parts of Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • C. Alexander Lyman Holley
    Alexander Lyman Holley was a prominent 19th-century American mechanical engineer and steel industry pioneer who helped introduce and advance the Bessemer process in the United States.
  • D. George Willis Ritchey
    George Willis Ritchey was an American optician and telescope designer renowned for pioneering advanced reflecting telescope technologies in the early 20th century.
  • E. Horace Smith
    Horace Smith was a 19th-century American inventor and firearms manufacturer best known as a co-founder of the Smith & Wesson gun company.
  • 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: weaponeer: William S. Parsons
Triple: [Enola Gay, crewPositionOnHiroshimaMission, weaponeer: William S. Parsons]
Generated description
William S. Parsons was a U.S. Navy rear admiral and ordnance expert who oversaw the development and arming of the atomic bomb used in the Hiroshima mission.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: weaponeer: William S. Parsons
Target entity description: William S. Parsons was a U.S. Navy rear admiral and ordnance expert who oversaw the development and arming of the atomic bomb used in the Hiroshima mission.
  • A. Robert Pigot
    Robert Pigot was a British Army officer best known for his role as a commanding officer during the early battles of the American Revolutionary War.
  • B. Jacob Wrey Mould
    Jacob Wrey Mould was a 19th-century British-born architect and designer known for his ornate, polychromatic work on major New York City landmarks, including parts of Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • C. Alexander Lyman Holley
    Alexander Lyman Holley was a prominent 19th-century American mechanical engineer and steel industry pioneer who helped introduce and advance the Bessemer process in the United States.
  • D. George Willis Ritchey
    George Willis Ritchey was an American optician and telescope designer renowned for pioneering advanced reflecting telescope technologies in the early 20th century.
  • E. Horace Smith
    Horace Smith was a 19th-century American inventor and firearms manufacturer best known as a co-founder of the Smith & Wesson gun company.
  • 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_69a4932779b881908688590d59c71900 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a514b514819088e7b6b7e4675905 completed March 1, 2026, 8:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a521704f3081909c1dbb3b030e79ec completed March 2, 2026, 5:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a521e8eb7c819084a5485b4f71bb93 completed March 2, 2026, 5:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5226144f881908e0d1add6be6e156 completed March 2, 2026, 5:38 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.