Triple
T9432315
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William L. "Red" Whittaker |
E227410
|
entity |
| Predicate | participatedIn |
P149
|
FINISHED |
| Object | DARPA Grand Challenge |
E3329
|
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: DARPA Grand Challenge | Statement: [William L. "Red" Whittaker, participatedIn, DARPA Grand Challenge]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: DARPA Grand Challenge Context triple: [William L. "Red" Whittaker, participatedIn, DARPA Grand Challenge]
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A.
DARPA Grand Challenge
chosen
The DARPA Grand Challenge was a series of autonomous vehicle competitions in the 2000s that catalyzed major advances in self-driving car technology and robotics research.
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B.
DARPA Grand Challenge winning team
The DARPA Grand Challenge winning team was the group of researchers and engineers, led by Sebastian Thrun at Stanford, whose autonomous vehicle "Stanley" successfully completed the 2005 desert race and became a landmark achievement in self-driving car development.
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C.
Centennial Challenges Program
The Centennial Challenges Program is a NASA initiative that uses prize competitions to spur innovation in space and related technologies by engaging non-traditional and independent inventors.
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D.
DARPA Robotics Challenge
The DARPA Robotics Challenge was a high-profile international competition that pushed the development of advanced humanoid robots capable of performing complex disaster-response tasks in environments designed for humans.
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E.
Ansari X Prize
The Ansari X Prize was a $10 million competition that spurred private spaceflight by rewarding the first non-government organization to launch a reusable crewed spacecraft into space twice within two weeks.
- 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_69ca8437a7ac81908651de48f2d2141d |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd7e6059bc8190a7e98aef3caabd0b |
completed | April 1, 2026, 8:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d1104033c08190a3670b017bd984d5 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 1:21 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:49 p.m.