Triple

T999138
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nellis Air Force Base E21563 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Harrell Nellis
William Harrell Nellis was a decorated American World War II fighter pilot whose combat service and sacrifice led to a major U.S. Air Force base being named in his honor.
E250562 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: William Harrell Nellis | Statement: [Nellis Air Force Base, namedAfter, William Harrell Nellis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Harrell Nellis
Context triple: [Nellis Air Force Base, namedAfter, William Harrell Nellis]
  • A. Arthur Loomis Harmon
    Arthur Loomis Harmon was an American architect best known as a partner in the firm that designed the Empire State Building.
  • B. Carl J. Kilpatrick
    Carl J. Kilpatrick is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Kilpatrick, though detailed public information about his life or achievements is limited.
  • C. John H. Ferguson
    John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
  • D. William Eldred Jackson
    William Eldred Jackson was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson.
  • E. William E. Nickerson
    William E. Nickerson was a prominent benefactor and businessman associated with Boston University, for whom the university’s Nickerson Field stadium is named.
  • 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: William Harrell Nellis
Triple: [Nellis Air Force Base, namedAfter, William Harrell Nellis]
Generated description
William Harrell Nellis was a decorated American World War II fighter pilot whose combat service and sacrifice led to a major U.S. Air Force base being named in his honor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Harrell Nellis
Target entity description: William Harrell Nellis was a decorated American World War II fighter pilot whose combat service and sacrifice led to a major U.S. Air Force base being named in his honor.
  • A. Arthur Loomis Harmon
    Arthur Loomis Harmon was an American architect best known as a partner in the firm that designed the Empire State Building.
  • B. Carl J. Kilpatrick
    Carl J. Kilpatrick is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Kilpatrick, though detailed public information about his life or achievements is limited.
  • C. John H. Ferguson
    John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
  • D. William Eldred Jackson
    William Eldred Jackson was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson.
  • E. William E. Nickerson
    William E. Nickerson was a prominent benefactor and businessman associated with Boston University, for whom the university’s Nickerson Field stadium is named.
  • 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_69a493c476b48190b41fc5e793171cc6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b4e3d8b081908e536928e7d6199d completed March 1, 2026, 9:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae7190fb84819095e6ebf2eeb50148 completed March 9, 2026, 7:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae75ad4f188190ba6edb78f0c32843 completed March 9, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae7610cb28819084c1898c4103aceb completed March 9, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.