Triple

T900520
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject North American X-15 E19434 entity
Predicate notablePilot P2087 FINISHED
Object Joe Walker
Joe Walker was a pioneering American test pilot and astronaut known for setting altitude and speed records in experimental aircraft, including flights that reached the edge of space.
 E161260 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: Joe Walker | Statement: [North American X-15, notablePilot, Joe Walker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Joe Walker
Context triple: [North American X-15, notablePilot, Joe Walker]
  • A. James Campbell Walker
    James Campbell Walker was a 19th-century Scottish architect known for designing notable public buildings, including several Carnegie libraries.
  • B. Brian Walker
    Brian Walker is an Australian ecologist and resilience scientist renowned for his pioneering work on social-ecological systems and sustainability.
  • C. John Bowers
    John Bowers is a prominent American engineer and physicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to photonics and optoelectronics, particularly in the development of high-speed and energy-efficient optical communication technologies.
  • D. Rex Walters
    Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
  • E. Rob Mullens
    Rob Mullens is a college athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at the University of Oregon.
  • 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: Joe Walker
Triple: [North American X-15, notablePilot, Joe Walker]
Generated description
Joe Walker was a pioneering American test pilot and astronaut known for setting altitude and speed records in experimental aircraft, including flights that reached the edge of space.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Joe Walker
Target entity description: Joe Walker was a pioneering American test pilot and astronaut known for setting altitude and speed records in experimental aircraft, including flights that reached the edge of space.
  • A. James Campbell Walker
    James Campbell Walker was a 19th-century Scottish architect known for designing notable public buildings, including several Carnegie libraries.
  • B. Brian Walker
    Brian Walker is an Australian ecologist and resilience scientist renowned for his pioneering work on social-ecological systems and sustainability.
  • C. John Bowers
    John Bowers is a prominent American engineer and physicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to photonics and optoelectronics, particularly in the development of high-speed and energy-efficient optical communication technologies.
  • D. Rex Walters
    Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
  • E. Rob Mullens
    Rob Mullens is a college athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at the University of Oregon.
  • 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_69a4939e889c8190ac148b3ac1a7f90b completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ad42ecac81909f8bc554d2fe0363 completed March 1, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ace540122c8190824f6de78dc1a411 completed March 8, 2026, 2:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ace62a94e88190883d25cdb748e8c1 completed March 8, 2026, 2:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ace68ab3788190bc3b55dd9a0fe267 completed March 8, 2026, 3:01 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.