Triple

T747337
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Goddard Space Flight Center E15372 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Robert H. Goddard
Robert H. Goddard was an American physicist and engineer widely regarded as the father of modern rocketry for pioneering the development of liquid-fueled rockets.
E88903 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: Robert H. Goddard | Statement: [Goddard Space Flight Center, namedAfter, Robert H. Goddard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert H. Goddard
Context triple: [Goddard Space Flight Center, namedAfter, Robert H. Goddard]
  • A. Wernher von Braun
    Wernher von Braun was a German-American aerospace engineer and pioneering rocket scientist who led the development of both Nazi Germany’s V-2 missile and NASA’s Saturn V rocket that enabled the Apollo Moon landings.
  • B. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
    Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was a pioneering Russian rocket scientist and visionary of astronautics whose theoretical work laid the foundations for modern spaceflight.
  • C. Robert F. Christy
    Robert F. Christy was a Canadian-American theoretical physicist best known for his key role in the Manhattan Project, including designing the "Christy pit" core used in the Trinity test and the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
  • D. Lyman Spitzer Jr.
    Lyman Spitzer Jr. was an influential American astrophysicist best known for his pioneering work on interstellar matter and for conceiving and advocating the development of space-based telescopes, including what became the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • E. James A. Van Allen
    James A. Van Allen was an American space scientist best known for discovering the Earth's radiation belts, now called the Van Allen belts, and for his pioneering work in early space exploration missions.
  • 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: Robert H. Goddard
Triple: [Goddard Space Flight Center, namedAfter, Robert H. Goddard]
Generated description
Robert H. Goddard was an American physicist and engineer widely regarded as the father of modern rocketry for pioneering the development of liquid-fueled rockets.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert H. Goddard
Target entity description: Robert H. Goddard was an American physicist and engineer widely regarded as the father of modern rocketry for pioneering the development of liquid-fueled rockets.
  • A. Wernher von Braun
    Wernher von Braun was a German-American aerospace engineer and pioneering rocket scientist who led the development of both Nazi Germany’s V-2 missile and NASA’s Saturn V rocket that enabled the Apollo Moon landings.
  • B. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
    Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was a pioneering Russian rocket scientist and visionary of astronautics whose theoretical work laid the foundations for modern spaceflight.
  • C. Robert F. Christy
    Robert F. Christy was a Canadian-American theoretical physicist best known for his key role in the Manhattan Project, including designing the "Christy pit" core used in the Trinity test and the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
  • D. Lyman Spitzer Jr.
    Lyman Spitzer Jr. was an influential American astrophysicist best known for his pioneering work on interstellar matter and for conceiving and advocating the development of space-based telescopes, including what became the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • E. James A. Van Allen
    James A. Van Allen was an American space scientist best known for discovering the Earth's radiation belts, now called the Van Allen belts, and for his pioneering work in early space exploration missions.
  • 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_69a49358aa308190adbc9b5a0a2adcf9 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a62dd1bc819094a3814654448ae3 completed March 1, 2026, 8:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a654e664e4819081badaf0ba0d86e5 completed March 3, 2026, 3:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a655e0a2608190801fb67856bc2ac4 completed March 3, 2026, 3:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a65704a964819097ad5074e83303b4 completed March 3, 2026, 3:35 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.