Triple

T18122022
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chowchilla school bus kidnapping E433762 entity
Predicate victim P870 FINISHED
Object Ed Ray
Ed Ray was the heroic California school bus driver who helped lead 26 kidnapped children to safety during the 1976 Chowchilla school bus kidnapping.
E1308889 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: Ed Ray | Statement: [Chowchilla school bus kidnapping, victim, Ed Ray]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed Ray
Context triple: [Chowchilla school bus kidnapping, victim, Ed Ray]
  • A. Dan Truman
    Dan Truman is the NASA administrator in the 1998 disaster film "Armageddon," responsible for overseeing the mission to prevent an asteroid from destroying Earth.
  • B. Dan Truman
    Dan Truman is an American country musician best known as the keyboardist for the Grammy-winning band Diamond Rio.
  • C. Phil Wallace
    Phil Wallace is a British businessman best known for owning and serving as long-time chairman of Stevenage Football Club.
  • D. Austin Scott
    Austin Scott is a Republican politician serving as a U.S. Representative from Georgia.
  • E. John McAllen
    John McAllen was a 19th-century rancher, merchant, and land developer whose influence in the Rio Grande Valley led to the South Texas city of McAllen being named in his honor.
  • 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: Ed Ray
Triple: [Chowchilla school bus kidnapping, victim, Ed Ray]
Generated description
Ed Ray was the heroic California school bus driver who helped lead 26 kidnapped children to safety during the 1976 Chowchilla school bus kidnapping.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed Ray
Target entity description: Ed Ray was the heroic California school bus driver who helped lead 26 kidnapped children to safety during the 1976 Chowchilla school bus kidnapping.
  • A. Dan Truman
    Dan Truman is an American country musician best known as the keyboardist for the Grammy-winning band Diamond Rio.
  • B. Dan Truman
    Dan Truman is the NASA administrator in the 1998 disaster film "Armageddon," responsible for overseeing the mission to prevent an asteroid from destroying Earth.
  • C. Phil Wallace
    Phil Wallace is a British businessman best known for owning and serving as long-time chairman of Stevenage Football Club.
  • D. Austin Scott
    Austin Scott is a Republican politician serving as a U.S. Representative from Georgia.
  • E. John McAllen
    John McAllen was a 19th-century rancher, merchant, and land developer whose influence in the Rio Grande Valley led to the South Texas city of McAllen being named in his honor.
  • 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_69d8b909e8cc81908df4cc2b8ea6d11f completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4ddeb2d7881909326cb9d2f5e2fb5 completed April 19, 2026, 1:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03853fd2648190b081c6c25a350f7d completed May 12, 2026, 7:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0388c5bea88190a3ced0fe4261aaa9 completed May 12, 2026, 8:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03894cfdfc8190bb8c0d229b8bf9ca completed May 12, 2026, 8:10 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:28 a.m.