Triple

T19747453
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joseph Evans Sperry E474289 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Sperry
Sperry is a surname most notably associated with American inventor Elmer Ambrose Sperry, known for developing the marine gyrostabilizer and founding the Sperry Gyroscope Company.
E318036 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: Sperry | Statement: [Joseph Evans Sperry, familyName, Sperry]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sperry
Context triple: [Joseph Evans Sperry, familyName, Sperry]
  • A. Sperry
    Sperry is a small town in northeastern Oklahoma, United States, located just north of Tulsa.
  • B. Sperry Corporation
    Sperry Corporation was a major American technology and defense contractor known for its innovations in electronics, navigation, and computing systems during the 20th century.
  • C. Fairchild
    Fairchild is the central Southern aristocratic family around whom the events and relationships of Eudora Welty’s novel "Delta Wedding" revolve.
  • D. Northrop
    Northrop is a major American aerospace and defense company known for designing and producing advanced military aircraft and related technologies.
  • E. Fairchild Aircraft
    Fairchild Aircraft was an American aerospace company known for producing military and civilian aircraft, including notable transport and trainer planes throughout the mid-20th century.
  • 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: Sperry
Triple: [Joseph Evans Sperry, familyName, Sperry]
Generated description
Sperry is a surname most notably associated with American inventor Elmer Ambrose Sperry, known for developing the marine gyrostabilizer and founding the Sperry Gyroscope Company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sperry
Target entity description: Sperry is a surname most notably associated with American inventor Elmer Ambrose Sperry, known for developing the marine gyrostabilizer and founding the Sperry Gyroscope Company.
  • A. Sperry
    Sperry is a small town in northeastern Oklahoma, United States, located just north of Tulsa.
  • B. Sperry Corporation chosen
    Sperry Corporation was a major American technology and defense contractor known for its innovations in electronics, navigation, and computing systems during the 20th century.
  • C. Fairchild
    Fairchild is the central Southern aristocratic family around whom the events and relationships of Eudora Welty’s novel "Delta Wedding" revolve.
  • D. Northrop
    Northrop is a major American aerospace and defense company known for designing and producing advanced military aircraft and related technologies.
  • E. Fairchild Aircraft
    Fairchild Aircraft was an American aerospace company known for producing military and civilian aircraft, including notable transport and trainer planes throughout the mid-20th century.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d8e51940a0819087bd2996f98da668 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e65295f3b88190a541354f41e3ea1d completed April 20, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07b503b84c8190a17cea6751610b62 completed May 16, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07b9a8d45c81909da6ca868e9c69c8 completed May 16, 2026, 12:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07ba7256b48190affa988af6187a92 completed May 16, 2026, 12:29 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:47 p.m.