Triple

T17902990
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bill Compton E447629 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object William Thomas Compton
William Thomas Compton is the full birth name of Bill Compton, a fictional Civil War–era vampire and central character in Charlaine Harris's "The Southern Vampire Mysteries" novels and the TV series "True Blood."
E1295414 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: William Thomas Compton | Statement: [Bill Compton, birthName, William Thomas Compton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thomas Compton
Context triple: [Bill Compton, birthName, William Thomas Compton]
  • A. Griffith Dickenson Compton
    Griffith Dickenson Compton was a 19th-century American Methodist minister and pioneer whose land holdings and influence in the area led to the California city of Compton being named in his honor.
  • B. Wilson Martindale Compton
    Wilson Martindale Compton was an American economist and academic administrator who served as president of Washington State College in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Arthur Bell Nicholls
    Arthur Bell Nicholls was an Irish clergyman best known as the husband and later literary executor of novelist Charlotte Brontë.
  • D. Edward Whitchurch
    Edward Whitchurch was a 16th-century English printer and Protestant reformer best known for co-publishing early English translations of the Bible, including the Matthew Bible.
  • E. Edmund Howard
    Edmund Howard was an English nobleman of the prominent Howard family, best known as the father of Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of King Henry VIII.
  • 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: William Thomas Compton
Triple: [Bill Compton, birthName, William Thomas Compton]
Generated description
William Thomas Compton is the full birth name of Bill Compton, a fictional Civil War–era vampire and central character in Charlaine Harris's "The Southern Vampire Mysteries" novels and the TV series "True Blood."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thomas Compton
Target entity description: William Thomas Compton is the full birth name of Bill Compton, a fictional Civil War–era vampire and central character in Charlaine Harris's "The Southern Vampire Mysteries" novels and the TV series "True Blood."
  • A. Griffith Dickenson Compton
    Griffith Dickenson Compton was a 19th-century American Methodist minister and pioneer whose land holdings and influence in the area led to the California city of Compton being named in his honor.
  • B. Wilson Martindale Compton
    Wilson Martindale Compton was an American economist and academic administrator who served as president of Washington State College in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Arthur Bell Nicholls
    Arthur Bell Nicholls was an Irish clergyman best known as the husband and later literary executor of novelist Charlotte Brontë.
  • D. Edward Whitchurch
    Edward Whitchurch was a 16th-century English printer and Protestant reformer best known for co-publishing early English translations of the Bible, including the Matthew Bible.
  • E. Edmund Howard
    Edmund Howard was an English nobleman of the prominent Howard family, best known as the father of Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of King Henry VIII.
  • 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_69d8b9f59bd48190a6fc925a855b8bac completed April 10, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e49e99c3188190aead24cd3d48c7a7 completed April 19, 2026, 9:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a031b2a27748190b620da54b4222a37 completed May 12, 2026, 12:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a031c78ca108190ae678979ed85ba55 completed May 12, 2026, 12:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a031db7eed88190bc3d4e157be7b5fc completed May 12, 2026, 12:31 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:19 a.m.