Triple

T7019388
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Precision Air E162779 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Michael Shirima
Michael Shirima was a prominent Tanzanian entrepreneur and aviation pioneer best known for building Precision Air into one of East Africa’s leading regional airlines.
E637683 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: Michael Shirima | Statement: [Precision Air, founder, Michael Shirima]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Shirima
Context triple: [Precision Air, founder, Michael Shirima]
  • A. Thomas Odoyo
    Thomas Odoyo is a former Kenyan all-rounder widely regarded as one of the country’s greatest cricketers, known for his seam bowling and middle-order batting in international competitions.
  • B. Winston Ntshona
    Winston Ntshona was a South African actor and playwright renowned for his politically charged stage work and his collaborations with Athol Fugard and John Kani, including the Tony Award-winning play "Sizwe Banzi Is Dead."
  • C. Patrick Mboma
    Patrick Mboma is a retired Cameroonian striker renowned for his prolific goal-scoring, key role in Cameroon’s 2000 Olympic gold and Africa Cup of Nations triumphs, and successful club career in Europe and Japan.
  • D. Joseph M'Benga
    Joseph M'Benga is a Starfleet medical officer and skilled physician in the Star Trek universe, prominently depicted as the USS Enterprise’s chief medical officer in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
  • E. Maurice Odumbe
    Maurice Odumbe is a former Kenyan cricketer and all-rounder who was one of the country's leading players during its rise on the international stage in the 1990s and early 2000s.
  • 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: Michael Shirima
Triple: [Precision Air, founder, Michael Shirima]
Generated description
Michael Shirima was a prominent Tanzanian entrepreneur and aviation pioneer best known for building Precision Air into one of East Africa’s leading regional airlines.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Shirima
Target entity description: Michael Shirima was a prominent Tanzanian entrepreneur and aviation pioneer best known for building Precision Air into one of East Africa’s leading regional airlines.
  • A. Thomas Odoyo
    Thomas Odoyo is a former Kenyan all-rounder widely regarded as one of the country’s greatest cricketers, known for his seam bowling and middle-order batting in international competitions.
  • B. Winston Ntshona
    Winston Ntshona was a South African actor and playwright renowned for his politically charged stage work and his collaborations with Athol Fugard and John Kani, including the Tony Award-winning play "Sizwe Banzi Is Dead."
  • C. Patrick Mboma
    Patrick Mboma is a retired Cameroonian striker renowned for his prolific goal-scoring, key role in Cameroon’s 2000 Olympic gold and Africa Cup of Nations triumphs, and successful club career in Europe and Japan.
  • D. Joseph M'Benga
    Joseph M'Benga is a Starfleet medical officer and skilled physician in the Star Trek universe, prominently depicted as the USS Enterprise’s chief medical officer in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
  • E. Maurice Odumbe
    Maurice Odumbe is a former Kenyan cricketer and all-rounder who was one of the country's leading players during its rise on the international stage in the 1990s and early 2000s.
  • 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_69c6885b26248190a857541e3d10e299 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e1e8e36c81908c95a8181781cda4 completed March 27, 2026, 8 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c775707e30819088b311a1a87eee79 completed March 28, 2026, 6:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c77c260d2c8190bb802ca8ce388a00 completed March 28, 2026, 6:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c77c944bf081909335db68da464b4f completed March 28, 2026, 7 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:34 p.m.