Triple

T17903108
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sam Merlotte E447631 entity
Predicate biologicalFamily P28764 FINISHED
Object Tommy Mickens
Tommy Mickens is a character from the television series "True Blood," known as Sam Merlotte's troubled younger brother and fellow shapeshifter.
E1295424 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: Tommy Mickens | Statement: [Sam Merlotte, biologicalFamily, Tommy Mickens]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tommy Mickens
Context triple: [Sam Merlotte, biologicalFamily, Tommy Mickens]
  • A. Tommy Griffin
    Tommy Griffin is an American former basketball player and coach best known as the father of NBA star Blake Griffin.
  • B. Tommy Chesbro
    Tommy Chesbro was a highly successful and influential collegiate wrestling coach best known for leading Oklahoma State University to numerous national titles and establishing one of the sport’s premier programs.
  • C. Tommy Miller
    Tommy Miller is an actor known for appearing in the science fiction television series "Moonhaven."
  • D. Tommy Miller
    Tommy Miller is a minor character in Eugene O’Neill’s nostalgic coming-of-age play "Ah, Wilderness!", appearing as part of the small-town social world surrounding the central Miller family.
  • E. Tommy Miller
    Tommy Miller is a key supporting character in The Last of Us series, known as Joel’s younger brother and a former Firefly who becomes a leader in the Jackson community.
  • 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: Tommy Mickens
Triple: [Sam Merlotte, biologicalFamily, Tommy Mickens]
Generated description
Tommy Mickens is a character from the television series "True Blood," known as Sam Merlotte's troubled younger brother and fellow shapeshifter.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tommy Mickens
Target entity description: Tommy Mickens is a character from the television series "True Blood," known as Sam Merlotte's troubled younger brother and fellow shapeshifter.
  • A. Tommy Griffin
    Tommy Griffin is an American former basketball player and coach best known as the father of NBA star Blake Griffin.
  • B. Tommy Chesbro
    Tommy Chesbro was a highly successful and influential collegiate wrestling coach best known for leading Oklahoma State University to numerous national titles and establishing one of the sport’s premier programs.
  • C. Tommy Miller
    Tommy Miller is an actor known for appearing in the science fiction television series "Moonhaven."
  • D. Tommy Miller
    Tommy Miller is a minor character in Eugene O’Neill’s nostalgic coming-of-age play "Ah, Wilderness!", appearing as part of the small-town social world surrounding the central Miller family.
  • E. Tommy Miller
    Tommy Miller is a key supporting character in The Last of Us series, known as Joel’s younger brother and a former Firefly who becomes a leader in the Jackson community.
  • 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.