Triple

T18593120
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Thomas Brande E454419 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Thomas
Thomas is the given name of the English chemist and author William Thomas Brande, known for his influential 19th-century works in chemistry.
E1331981 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: [William Thomas Brande, givenName, Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Context triple: [William Thomas Brande, givenName, Thomas]
  • A. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Sir Stamford Raffles, the British statesman best known as the founder of modern Singapore.
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Sir Thomas Hislop, a British Army officer who served during the Napoleonic Wars and in colonial India.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is a character in Simon Gray's stage play "Quartermaine's Terms," which explores the personal and professional lives of teachers at a 1960s Cambridge language school.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is a character appearing in the animated series "Exit 9B" from the show "Regular Show."
  • E. 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."
  • 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: [William Thomas Brande, givenName, Thomas]
Generated description
Thomas is the given name of the English chemist and author William Thomas Brande, known for his influential 19th-century works in chemistry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Target entity description: Thomas is the given name of the English chemist and author William Thomas Brande, known for his influential 19th-century works in chemistry.
  • A. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Paine, the influential 18th-century political philosopher and writer known for works like "Common Sense" and "The Rights of Man."
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Edwards, an English literary critic and poet known for his 18th-century work "The Canons of Criticism."
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Malthus, the influential English economist and demographer known for his theories on population growth and resource limits.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Gainsborough, the renowned 18th-century English portrait and landscape painter.
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of the British philosopher and political theorist T. H. Green, a key figure in 19th-century British Idealism.
  • 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_69d8d38ae7e081908a98df1251842402 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e545b7ce3881908302ee27a2cf80d6 completed April 19, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a04f87e9584819099c33521d0614168 completed May 13, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a04f9122bec81908614429d65b3d0fc completed May 13, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a04fa53d96881909bebf2aaea89af0f completed May 13, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:44 a.m.