Triple
T18622556
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William McDermott |
E455191
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasVariantSpelling |
P457
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William McDermot
William McDermot is a personal name that appears as a variant spelling of the more common surname form “McDermott.”
|
E1334869
|
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 McDermot | Statement: [William McDermott, hasVariantSpelling, William McDermot]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William McDermot Context triple: [William McDermott, hasVariantSpelling, William McDermot]
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A.
Walter H. Beech
Walter H. Beech was an American aviation pioneer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the Beech Aircraft Corporation, a major manufacturer of general aviation and military aircraft.
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B.
Glenn Curtis
Glenn Curtis was an American basketball coach best known for leading the early NBA franchise that became the Detroit Falcons.
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C.
Walter Watson Hughes
Walter Watson Hughes was a 19th-century Scottish-Australian pastoralist and philanthropist whose substantial donations were pivotal in establishing higher education in South Australia.
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D.
Lloyd Stearman
Lloyd Stearman was an American aviation pioneer and aircraft designer best known for founding multiple aircraft companies and creating the iconic Stearman biplane trainers used extensively before and during World War II.
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E.
Clyde Pangborn
Clyde Pangborn was an American aviator best known for completing the first nonstop trans-Pacific flight from Japan to the United States in 1931.
- 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 McDermot Triple: [William McDermott, hasVariantSpelling, William McDermot]
Generated description
William McDermot is a personal name that appears as a variant spelling of the more common surname form “McDermott.”
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William McDermot Target entity description: William McDermot is a personal name that appears as a variant spelling of the more common surname form “McDermott.”
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A.
Walter H. Beech
Walter H. Beech was an American aviation pioneer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the Beech Aircraft Corporation, a major manufacturer of general aviation and military aircraft.
-
B.
Glenn Curtis
Glenn Curtis was an American basketball coach best known for leading the early NBA franchise that became the Detroit Falcons.
-
C.
Walter Watson Hughes
Walter Watson Hughes was a 19th-century Scottish-Australian pastoralist and philanthropist whose substantial donations were pivotal in establishing higher education in South Australia.
-
D.
Lloyd Stearman
Lloyd Stearman was an American aviation pioneer and aircraft designer best known for founding multiple aircraft companies and creating the iconic Stearman biplane trainers used extensively before and during World War II.
-
E.
Clyde Pangborn
Clyde Pangborn was an American aviator best known for completing the first nonstop trans-Pacific flight from Japan to the United States in 1931.
- 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_69d8d38cc7948190a55ea64e5638994e |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e54f020fa08190bd78d72182496b19 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 9:54 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a050d765bb081908aab41aa6bb97fe4 |
completed | May 13, 2026, 11:47 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a050f6306ac8190aa4d72627345cf55 |
completed | May 13, 2026, 11:55 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a050ff68a7c8190bf82d00370f4b1d4 |
completed | May 13, 2026, 11:57 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:46 a.m.