Triple

T13115093
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William O. Butler E311071 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object Thomas H. Butler
Thomas H. Butler was a 19th-century American figure known primarily as a member of the prominent Butler family that included politician and military officer William O. Butler.
 E1569899 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: Thomas H. Butler | Statement: [William O. Butler, relative, Thomas H. Butler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas H. Butler
Context triple: [William O. Butler, relative, Thomas H. Butler]
  • A. William H. Thomas
    William H. Thomas was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the infrastructure design and engineering firm HNTB.
  • B. John B. Gough
    John B. Gough was a 19th-century American orator and reformer renowned for his powerful speeches advocating abstinence from alcohol and promoting the temperance cause.
  • C. William M. Thomas
    William M. Thomas was a prominent local figure associated with Bakersfield, California, for whom Meadows Field Airport was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
  • D. Arthur B. McBride
    Arthur B. McBride was an American businessman best known for establishing and initially owning the Cleveland Browns professional football franchise.
  • E. Francis B. Burch
    Francis B. Burch was an American lawyer and politician who served as the Attorney General of Maryland in 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: Thomas H. Butler
Triple: [William O. Butler, relative, Thomas H. Butler]
Generated description
Thomas H. Butler was a 19th-century American figure known primarily as a member of the prominent Butler family that included politician and military officer William O. Butler.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas H. Butler
Target entity description: Thomas H. Butler was a 19th-century American figure known primarily as a member of the prominent Butler family that included politician and military officer William O. Butler.
  • A. William H. Thomas
    William H. Thomas was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the infrastructure design and engineering firm HNTB.
  • B. John B. Gough
    John B. Gough was a 19th-century American orator and reformer renowned for his powerful speeches advocating abstinence from alcohol and promoting the temperance cause.
  • C. William M. Thomas
    William M. Thomas was a prominent local figure associated with Bakersfield, California, for whom Meadows Field Airport was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
  • D. Arthur B. McBride
    Arthur B. McBride was an American businessman best known for establishing and initially owning the Cleveland Browns professional football franchise.
  • E. Francis B. Burch
    Francis B. Burch was an American lawyer and politician who served as the Attorney General of Maryland in the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69d806a872d08190a329806f8ff30df4 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98180b6ac8190ae5a1f7c1480bd54 completed April 10, 2026, 11:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c158f821c81909f5d1f32beccb417 completed May 19, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c1990c8bc819080706e2505a5595c completed May 19, 2026, 8:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c1a321d64819081170a82f8321cdd completed May 19, 2026, 8:07 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:06 p.m.