Triple

T18679239
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas R. Kinkaid E456687 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Thomas R. Kinkaid, a prominent U.S. Navy admiral who served in the Pacific during World War II.
 E457158 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: [Thomas R. Kinkaid, givenName, Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas
Context triple: [Thomas R. Kinkaid, 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 middle name of the individual Samuel Thomas Wilson.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester, a prominent 19th-century British peer and landowner.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the full given name of former NFL quarterback Tommy Maddox, who notably played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and won the 2001 XFL championship.
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is a character appearing in the animated series "Exit 9B" from the show "Regular Show."
  • 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: [Thomas R. Kinkaid, givenName, Thomas]
Generated description
Thomas is the given name of Thomas R. Kinkaid, a prominent U.S. Navy admiral who served in the Pacific during World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas
Target entity description: Thomas is the given name of Thomas R. Kinkaid, a prominent U.S. Navy admiral who served in the Pacific during World War II.
  • A. Thomas chosen
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas C. Kinkaid, a prominent U.S. Navy admiral who served in the Pacific during World War II.
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is the middle name of William T. Sampson, a notable U.S. Navy admiral from the Spanish–American War era.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, a renowned British naval officer and radical politician of the 19th century.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of American actor Tommy Kirk, known for his roles in classic Disney films of the 1950s and 1960s.
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson, a prominent military leader during the American Civil War.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d8d391eb488190ac2e9abf5bf255e4 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e55b2783648190bb602e2b07eedf92 completed April 19, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a052b2be4688190b72e641b70f6d48a completed May 14, 2026, 1:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a052ce46cd08190b4f01dedce078702 completed May 14, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a052d6f1f8081908810e99dff28b586 completed May 14, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:48 a.m.