Triple

T18164320
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tom Clancy E434850 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Thomas
Thomas is the first name of American novelist Tom Clancy, famed for his military and espionage thrillers such as "The Hunt for Red October" and "Patriot Games."
E1309705 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 | Statement: [Tom Clancy, givenName, Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Context triple: [Tom Clancy, givenName, Thomas]
  • A. Thomas
    Thomas is the birth name of American actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black, known for films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of Tenacious D.
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano, was a 17th-century Italian nobleman and military commander of the House of Savoy who played a significant role in the Thirty Years' War and related European conflicts.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Sir Stamford Raffles, the British statesman best known as the founder of modern Singapore.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the formal given name of Tom Coughlin, the American football coach best known for leading the New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories.
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of British entertainer Tommy Steele, a pioneering rock and roll singer and actor.
  • 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
Triple: [Tom Clancy, givenName, Thomas]
Generated description
Thomas is the first name of American novelist Tom Clancy, famed for his military and espionage thrillers such as "The Hunt for Red October" and "Patriot Games."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Target entity description: Thomas is the first name of American novelist Tom Clancy, famed for his military and espionage thrillers such as "The Hunt for Red October" and "Patriot Games."
  • A. Thomas
    Thomas is the formal given name of the American author and journalist Tom Wolfe, known for his pioneering work in New Journalism.
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of the American novelist Thomas Wolfe, known for his expansive, autobiographical fiction such as "Look Homeward, Angel."
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the given first name of American actor Tom Skerritt, known for roles in films like "Alien" and "Top Gun."
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the first name of American actor Mark Harmon, best known for his long-running role as Leroy Jethro Gibbs on the television series "NCIS."
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is the given first name of the renowned American playwright Tennessee Williams, known for works such as "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
  • 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_69d8b90b7a188190b3fc7b8d4a6cd20a completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4dec55a088190868ee0b0a310fefb completed April 19, 2026, 1:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a038fb549d88190b9e4bf3dbd1c35b5 completed May 12, 2026, 8:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a039182427c81909de840ddf7b2172f completed May 12, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03927b1794819098106ca3695178dc completed May 12, 2026, 8:50 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:30 a.m.