Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Truax Field E457645 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Lieutenant Thomas L. Truax
Lieutenant Thomas L. Truax was a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot honored posthumously as the namesake of Truax Field after being killed in a training accident shortly before the United States entered World War II.
E1342404 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: Lieutenant Thomas L. Truax | Statement: [Truax Field, namedAfter, Lieutenant Thomas L. Truax]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant Thomas L. Truax
Context triple: [Truax Field, namedAfter, Lieutenant Thomas L. Truax]
  • A. Lieutenant William F. Kinderman
    Lieutenant William F. Kinderman is a seasoned, introspective police detective who investigates a series of gruesome, seemingly supernatural murders in the horror film *The Exorcist III*.
  • B. Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom
    Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom was a U.S. Army officer best known for his role in the 1861 Bascom Affair, a pivotal incident that helped ignite prolonged conflict with the Apache in the American Southwest.
  • C. Lt. Henry N. Way
    Lt. Henry N. Way was a U.S. Army officer whose service in the coastal artillery corps led to a major seacoast gun battery in the Philippines being named in his honor.
  • D. Lieutenant Thomas Glahn
    Lieutenant Thomas Glahn is the introspective, nature-obsessed protagonist of Knut Hamsun’s novel *Pan*, whose turbulent love affairs and retreat into the Norwegian wilderness explore themes of passion, isolation, and psychological complexity.
  • E. Lieutenant Augustus C. Ludlow
    Lieutenant Augustus C. Ludlow was a U.S. Navy officer noted for his gallantry and death in the War of 1812, particularly during the battle between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon.
  • 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: Lieutenant Thomas L. Truax
Triple: [Truax Field, namedAfter, Lieutenant Thomas L. Truax]
Generated description
Lieutenant Thomas L. Truax was a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot honored posthumously as the namesake of Truax Field after being killed in a training accident shortly before the United States entered World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant Thomas L. Truax
Target entity description: Lieutenant Thomas L. Truax was a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot honored posthumously as the namesake of Truax Field after being killed in a training accident shortly before the United States entered World War II.
  • A. Lieutenant William F. Kinderman
    Lieutenant William F. Kinderman is a seasoned, introspective police detective who investigates a series of gruesome, seemingly supernatural murders in the horror film *The Exorcist III*.
  • B. Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom
    Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom was a U.S. Army officer best known for his role in the 1861 Bascom Affair, a pivotal incident that helped ignite prolonged conflict with the Apache in the American Southwest.
  • C. Lt. Henry N. Way
    Lt. Henry N. Way was a U.S. Army officer whose service in the coastal artillery corps led to a major seacoast gun battery in the Philippines being named in his honor.
  • D. Lieutenant Thomas Glahn
    Lieutenant Thomas Glahn is the introspective, nature-obsessed protagonist of Knut Hamsun’s novel *Pan*, whose turbulent love affairs and retreat into the Norwegian wilderness explore themes of passion, isolation, and psychological complexity.
  • E. Lieutenant Augustus C. Ludlow
    Lieutenant Augustus C. Ludlow was a U.S. Navy officer noted for his gallantry and death in the War of 1812, particularly during the battle between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon.
  • 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_69d8d393ba9c8190a8b03b04ddbb0a09 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e56ab611bc819085164f252ac3a390 completed April 19, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a054708d7dc8190b85566c17ee67d35 completed May 14, 2026, 3:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0547cbaaac8190b7b4f88bcadd6f08 completed May 14, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05486a173c8190b6227b5eeb77d45b completed May 14, 2026, 3:58 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:50 a.m.