Triple
T9432318
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William L. "Red" Whittaker |
E227410
|
entity |
| Predicate | led |
P6947
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Tartan Racing team in the DARPA Urban Challenge |
E95170
|
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: Tartan Racing team in the DARPA Urban Challenge | Statement: [William L. "Red" Whittaker, led, Tartan Racing team in the DARPA Urban Challenge]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tartan Racing team in the DARPA Urban Challenge Context triple: [William L. "Red" Whittaker, led, Tartan Racing team in the DARPA Urban Challenge]
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A.
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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B.
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.
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C.
Tartan Racing
chosen
Tartan Racing is an autonomous vehicle research team formed by Carnegie Mellon University and General Motors that gained prominence by winning the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.
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D.
Wolf Racing
Wolf Racing was a Canadian Formula One team that competed in the 1970s, known for fielding drivers such as James Hunt and Jody Scheckter.
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E.
Dennit Racing
Dennit Racing is the fictional NASCAR team featured in the comedy film "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," for which Ricky Bobby drives.
- 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.