Triple

T22196936
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Hale Thompson E548573 entity
Predicate nickname P55 FINISHED
Object Big Bill Thompson
Big Bill Thompson was a flamboyant and controversial early 20th-century Chicago mayor known for his populist style, corruption scandals, and ties to organized crime.
E1529929 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: Big Bill Thompson | Statement: [William Hale Thompson, nickname, Big Bill Thompson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Big Bill Thompson
Context triple: [William Hale Thompson, nickname, Big Bill Thompson]
  • A. Henry B. Tippie
    Henry B. Tippie was an American businessman and philanthropist whose major contributions to education led the University of Iowa to name its business school in his honor.
  • B. Enos M. Barton
    Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
  • C. Charles T. Menoher
    Charles T. Menoher was a U.S. Army major general who commanded the 42nd "Rainbow" Division during World War I and later served as the first chief of the Army Air Service.
  • D. Jesse G. Vincent
    Jesse G. Vincent is a software developer best known for creating the RT issue tracking system and contributing extensively to open-source projects.
  • E. Charles O. Hobaugh
    Charles O. Hobaugh is a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions in the 2000s.
  • 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: Big Bill Thompson
Triple: [William Hale Thompson, nickname, Big Bill Thompson]
Generated description
Big Bill Thompson was a flamboyant and controversial early 20th-century Chicago mayor known for his populist style, corruption scandals, and ties to organized crime.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Big Bill Thompson
Target entity description: Big Bill Thompson was a flamboyant and controversial early 20th-century Chicago mayor known for his populist style, corruption scandals, and ties to organized crime.
  • A. Henry B. Tippie
    Henry B. Tippie was an American businessman and philanthropist whose major contributions to education led the University of Iowa to name its business school in his honor.
  • B. Enos M. Barton
    Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
  • C. Charles T. Menoher
    Charles T. Menoher was a U.S. Army major general who commanded the 42nd "Rainbow" Division during World War I and later served as the first chief of the Army Air Service.
  • D. Jesse G. Vincent
    Jesse G. Vincent is a software developer best known for creating the RT issue tracking system and contributing extensively to open-source projects.
  • E. Charles O. Hobaugh
    Charles O. Hobaugh is a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions in the 2000s.
  • 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_69e11e3ecc7c8190b5f94cd8f42e9d37 completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f12ae7c72081909b7817d66391bef4 completed April 28, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0acc81c9648190b735813fa7fce92e completed May 18, 2026, 8:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0acd7bfb4c81909475874f808887c0 completed May 18, 2026, 8:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ace029b74819086a545100e8a8f8a completed May 18, 2026, 8:29 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:35 p.m.