Triple

T9432317
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William L. "Red" Whittaker E227410 entity
Predicate led P6947 FINISHED
Object Carnegie Mellon University Red Team in the DARPA Grand Challenge
The Carnegie Mellon University Red Team in the DARPA Grand Challenge was a pioneering robotics group that developed and fielded autonomous vehicles in the early landmark competitions for self-driving car technology.
E799863 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: Carnegie Mellon University Red Team in the DARPA Grand Challenge | Statement: [William L. "Red" Whittaker, led, Carnegie Mellon University Red Team in the DARPA Grand Challenge]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carnegie Mellon University Red Team in the DARPA Grand Challenge
Context triple: [William L. "Red" Whittaker, led, Carnegie Mellon University Red Team in the DARPA Grand Challenge]
  • A. DARPA Grand Challenge
    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.
  • 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.
  • C. CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform
    CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform (CHIMP) is a sophisticated humanoid robot developed at Carnegie Mellon University for advanced mobility, manipulation, and autonomous operation in challenging environments.
  • 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.
  • E. Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research
    The Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research is a research institution specializing in the development, testing, and advancement of autonomous and unmanned vehicle technologies, particularly for defense and naval applications.
  • 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: Carnegie Mellon University Red Team in the DARPA Grand Challenge
Triple: [William L. "Red" Whittaker, led, Carnegie Mellon University Red Team in the DARPA Grand Challenge]
Generated description
The Carnegie Mellon University Red Team in the DARPA Grand Challenge was a pioneering robotics group that developed and fielded autonomous vehicles in the early landmark competitions for self-driving car technology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carnegie Mellon University Red Team in the DARPA Grand Challenge
Target entity description: The Carnegie Mellon University Red Team in the DARPA Grand Challenge was a pioneering robotics group that developed and fielded autonomous vehicles in the early landmark competitions for self-driving car technology.
  • A. DARPA Grand Challenge
    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.
  • 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.
  • C. CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform
    CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform (CHIMP) is a sophisticated humanoid robot developed at Carnegie Mellon University for advanced mobility, manipulation, and autonomous operation in challenging environments.
  • 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.
  • E. Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research
    The Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research is a research institution specializing in the development, testing, and advancement of autonomous and unmanned vehicle technologies, particularly for defense and naval applications.
  • 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_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.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d110ffda7881908e4edd692b818464 completed April 4, 2026, 1:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d11190dd6c8190b6318df44daa9858 completed April 4, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:49 p.m.