Triple

T18347917
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jay Forrester E439589 entity
Predicate workedOn P3 FINISHED
Object Whirlwind computer project
The Whirlwind computer project was an early real-time digital computer initiative at MIT that pioneered core technologies for modern computing and laid the groundwork for air defense systems like SAGE.
E1319453 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: Whirlwind computer project | Statement: [Jay Forrester, workedOn, Whirlwind computer project]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whirlwind computer project
Context triple: [Jay Forrester, workedOn, Whirlwind computer project]
  • A. Ultracomputers project
    The Ultracomputers project was a pioneering research effort in massively parallel computing architecture led by Jacob T. Schwartz and collaborators in the 1980s.
  • B. The Computer Programme
    The Computer Programme was a 1980s BBC television series that introduced viewers to computer technology and programming as part of the BBC Computer Literacy Project.
  • C. Harvard Computers program
    The Harvard Computers program was a pioneering late 19th- and early 20th-century initiative that employed (mostly women) human "computers" to catalog and analyze astronomical data, leading to major advances in stellar classification and astrophysics.
  • D. The Soul of a New Machine
    The Soul of a New Machine is a Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction book by Tracy Kidder that chronicles the intense, behind-the-scenes effort of a small engineering team racing to design a new computer in the late 1970s.
  • E. Thunderbird project
    The Thunderbird project is the community-driven organization responsible for developing and maintaining the Thunderbird open-source email client.
  • 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: Whirlwind computer project
Triple: [Jay Forrester, workedOn, Whirlwind computer project]
Generated description
The Whirlwind computer project was an early real-time digital computer initiative at MIT that pioneered core technologies for modern computing and laid the groundwork for air defense systems like SAGE.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whirlwind computer project
Target entity description: The Whirlwind computer project was an early real-time digital computer initiative at MIT that pioneered core technologies for modern computing and laid the groundwork for air defense systems like SAGE.
  • A. Ultracomputers project
    The Ultracomputers project was a pioneering research effort in massively parallel computing architecture led by Jacob T. Schwartz and collaborators in the 1980s.
  • B. The Computer Programme
    The Computer Programme was a 1980s BBC television series that introduced viewers to computer technology and programming as part of the BBC Computer Literacy Project.
  • C. Harvard Computers program
    The Harvard Computers program was a pioneering late 19th- and early 20th-century initiative that employed (mostly women) human "computers" to catalog and analyze astronomical data, leading to major advances in stellar classification and astrophysics.
  • D. The Soul of a New Machine
    The Soul of a New Machine is a Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction book by Tracy Kidder that chronicles the intense, behind-the-scenes effort of a small engineering team racing to design a new computer in the late 1970s.
  • E. Thunderbird project
    The Thunderbird project is the community-driven organization responsible for developing and maintaining the Thunderbird open-source email client.
  • 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_69d8b9175fec8190af865699b4e64d8c completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e514f594f88190a683e6224e091593 completed April 19, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03cc266d608190988a7250a2626575 completed May 13, 2026, 12:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03cd30105c8190925ebd435d7b2925 completed May 13, 2026, 1 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03cdac1cc48190a1056371bed04c90 completed May 13, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:37 a.m.