Triple

T790413
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Langley Research Center E16900 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Samuel Pierpont Langley
Samuel Pierpont Langley was an American astronomer, physicist, and aviation pioneer known for his early experiments with heavier-than-air flight and for serving as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
E94013 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: Samuel Pierpont Langley | Statement: [Langley Research Center, namedAfter, Samuel Pierpont Langley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Pierpont Langley
Context triple: [Langley Research Center, namedAfter, Samuel Pierpont Langley]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. John W. Draper
    John W. Draper was a 19th-century American scientist, philosopher, and historian known for his pioneering work in photochemistry and early contributions to scientific institutions.
  • D. Edward Nichols
    Edward Nichols was a physicist best known for founding the influential scientific journal Physical Review.
  • E. Charles Hercules Rutan
    Charles Hercules Rutan was an American architect best known as a partner in the influential late-19th- and early-20th-century firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, successors to H. H. Richardson.
  • 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: Samuel Pierpont Langley
Triple: [Langley Research Center, namedAfter, Samuel Pierpont Langley]
Generated description
Samuel Pierpont Langley was an American astronomer, physicist, and aviation pioneer known for his early experiments with heavier-than-air flight and for serving as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Pierpont Langley
Target entity description: Samuel Pierpont Langley was an American astronomer, physicist, and aviation pioneer known for his early experiments with heavier-than-air flight and for serving as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. John W. Draper
    John W. Draper was a 19th-century American scientist, philosopher, and historian known for his pioneering work in photochemistry and early contributions to scientific institutions.
  • D. Edward Nichols
    Edward Nichols was a physicist best known for founding the influential scientific journal Physical Review.
  • E. Charles Hercules Rutan
    Charles Hercules Rutan was an American architect best known as a partner in the influential late-19th- and early-20th-century firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, successors to H. H. Richardson.
  • 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_69a4936cb7448190914f5fe4b8d81607 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a79754988190ab494b1c54d6a2a4 completed March 1, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a67880f9608190b0676eb47ea99ca1 completed March 3, 2026, 5:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a678f962c881909884c2af15f41d65 completed March 3, 2026, 6 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a67953f2bc8190bbbf8d4ae9c2c3bc completed March 3, 2026, 6:01 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.