Triple
T21860861
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Northrop Grumman Corporation |
E539755
|
entity |
| Predicate | majorCustomer |
P927
|
FINISHED |
| Object | United States Department of Defense |
E8166
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: United States Department of Defense | Statement: [Northrop Grumman Corporation, majorCustomer, United States Department of Defense]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Department of Defense Context triple: [Northrop Grumman Corporation, majorCustomer, United States Department of Defense]
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A.
Department of Defense
chosen
The Department of Defense is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions related to national security and the armed forces.
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B.
Stato Maggiore della Difesa
Stato Maggiore della Difesa is the highest joint military staff body of Italy, responsible for coordinating and directing the country’s armed forces at the strategic level.
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C.
وزارة الدفاع
وزارة الدفاع هي الجهة الحكومية المسؤولة عن تنظيم وإدارة القوات المسلحة والدفاع الوطني في المملكة العربية السعودية.
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D.
Office of the Secretary of Defense
The Office of the Secretary of Defense is the principal civilian staff organization within the U.S. Department of Defense that provides policy development, planning, resource management, and oversight for the entire American military establishment.
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E.
Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional
La Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional es el ministerio del gobierno de México encargado de la administración, organización y control del Ejército y la Fuerza Aérea Mexicanos, así como de la política de defensa nacional.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69e0c47829648190bbe2d1d7033768ec |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f0d63a22b88190b59b13e7b4788195 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 3:46 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a0a4bdacb6c8190b1087fc577abb1c6 |
completed | May 17, 2026, 11:14 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:56 p.m.