Triple

T10091709
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject T.C. Boyle E215358 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Thomas John Boyle
Thomas John Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer, best known for his darkly comic and socially incisive fiction published under the name T.C. Boyle.
E839791 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 John Boyle | Statement: [T.C. Boyle, birthName, Thomas John Boyle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas John Boyle
Context triple: [T.C. Boyle, birthName, Thomas John Boyle]
  • A. John Boyle
    John Boyle was an American jurist and politician from Kentucky, notably serving as Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in the early 19th century.
  • B. George Alan O'Dowd
    George Alan O'Dowd, better known as Boy George, is an English singer, songwriter, and fashion icon who rose to fame in the 1980s as the flamboyant lead vocalist of the pop band Culture Club.
  • C. William O’Leary
    William O’Leary is an American actor best known for his role as Marty Taylor on the television sitcom "Home Improvement."
  • D. William John Murphy
    William John Murphy was an American businessman and developer best known for his role in establishing and promoting the city of Glendale, Arizona.
  • E. John Kilbride
    John Kilbride was a 12-year-old boy from Greater Manchester who became one of the child victims of the notorious 1960s Moors murders committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.
  • 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 John Boyle
Triple: [T.C. Boyle, birthName, Thomas John Boyle]
Generated description
Thomas John Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer, best known for his darkly comic and socially incisive fiction published under the name T.C. Boyle.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas John Boyle
Target entity description: Thomas John Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer, best known for his darkly comic and socially incisive fiction published under the name T.C. Boyle.
  • A. John Boyle
    John Boyle was an American jurist and politician from Kentucky, notably serving as Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in the early 19th century.
  • B. George Alan O'Dowd
    George Alan O'Dowd, better known as Boy George, is an English singer, songwriter, and fashion icon who rose to fame in the 1980s as the flamboyant lead vocalist of the pop band Culture Club.
  • C. William O’Leary
    William O’Leary is an American actor best known for his role as Marty Taylor on the television sitcom "Home Improvement."
  • D. William John Murphy
    William John Murphy was an American businessman and developer best known for his role in establishing and promoting the city of Glendale, Arizona.
  • E. John Kilbride
    John Kilbride was a 12-year-old boy from Greater Manchester who became one of the child victims of the notorious 1960s Moors murders committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.
  • 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_69ca83a1eed081908b2e9580f2ebeea7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdd05aa02081908fba02e7085c6d7c completed April 2, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2b6a587e0819093f38d5e69db43ec completed April 5, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2b790cc188190b5c16c89beaa8aca completed April 5, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2b81e7b948190baa417186aac284b completed April 5, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:01 p.m.