Triple

T14464056
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Native Son E358659 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Bigger Thomas
Bigger Thomas is the troubled African American protagonist of Richard Wright's novel "Native Son," whose life and actions expose the brutal realities of racism and poverty in 1930s Chicago.
E1101163 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: Bigger Thomas | Statement: [Native Son, mainCharacter, Bigger Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bigger Thomas
Context triple: [Native Son, mainCharacter, Bigger Thomas]
  • A. The Dick
    "The Dick" is the colloquial nickname for Dick's Sporting Goods Park, a soccer-specific stadium and sports complex in Commerce City, Colorado, primarily known as the home of the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer.
  • B. Tommie
    Tommie is the costumed mascot representing the University of St. Thomas in its athletic and school spirit events.
  • C. Big Tom
    Big Tom is a prominent mountain peak in the Black Mountains of North Carolina, known for its rugged terrain and scenic hiking routes.
  • D. The Pete
    The Pete is a multi-purpose indoor arena at the University of Pittsburgh known primarily as the home venue for the Pittsburgh Panthers basketball teams.
  • E. Tuffy
    Tuffy is the nickname of former professional baseball outfielder Tuffy Rhodes, known for his notable performances in both Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball.
  • 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: Bigger Thomas
Triple: [Native Son, mainCharacter, Bigger Thomas]
Generated description
Bigger Thomas is the troubled African American protagonist of Richard Wright's novel "Native Son," whose life and actions expose the brutal realities of racism and poverty in 1930s Chicago.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bigger Thomas
Target entity description: Bigger Thomas is the troubled African American protagonist of Richard Wright's novel "Native Son," whose life and actions expose the brutal realities of racism and poverty in 1930s Chicago.
  • A. The Dick
    "The Dick" is the colloquial nickname for Dick's Sporting Goods Park, a soccer-specific stadium and sports complex in Commerce City, Colorado, primarily known as the home of the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer.
  • B. Tommie
    Tommie is the costumed mascot representing the University of St. Thomas in its athletic and school spirit events.
  • C. Big Tom
    Big Tom is a prominent mountain peak in the Black Mountains of North Carolina, known for its rugged terrain and scenic hiking routes.
  • D. The Pete
    The Pete is a multi-purpose indoor arena at the University of Pittsburgh known primarily as the home venue for the Pittsburgh Panthers basketball teams.
  • E. Tuffy
    Tuffy is the nickname of former professional baseball outfielder Tuffy Rhodes, known for his notable performances in both Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball.
  • 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_69d827966698819082e140837737501d completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de91ad67bc81908ecdaa7262f6dc55 completed April 14, 2026, 7:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd64973dc08190ab893c95ea3f066c completed May 8, 2026, 4:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd67b1ed2081908d3de6514078be49 completed May 8, 2026, 4:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd682f28948190adc037c18c7deb93 completed May 8, 2026, 4:35 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:19 a.m.