Triple

T10415507
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Octagon House E245503 entity
Predicate hasArchitect P184 FINISHED
Object William Thornton
William Thornton was a British-American physician and self-taught architect best known as the first Architect of the U.S. Capitol and designer of several prominent early Washington, D.C. buildings.
E862234 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: William Thornton | Statement: [Octagon House, hasArchitect, William Thornton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thornton
Context triple: [Octagon House, hasArchitect, William Thornton]
  • A. William Thornton
    William Thornton is one of the children of American actor, filmmaker, and musician Billy Bob Thornton.
  • B. William Robert Thornton
    William Robert Thornton, better known as Billy Bob Thornton, is an American actor, filmmaker, and musician recognized for his roles in films like "Sling Blade" and "A Simple Plan."
  • C. James Hoban
    James Hoban was an Irish-born American architect best known for designing the White House in Washington, D.C.
  • D. James Gorham
    James Gorham was a colonial-era New England settler associated with early Plymouth Colony family lineages.
  • E. Benjamin Henry Latrobe
    Benjamin Henry Latrobe was a pioneering British-American architect often regarded as the father of American architecture, known for his influential work on the United States Capitol and other early federal buildings.
  • 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: William Thornton
Triple: [Octagon House, hasArchitect, William Thornton]
Generated description
William Thornton was a British-American physician and self-taught architect best known as the first Architect of the U.S. Capitol and designer of several prominent early Washington, D.C. buildings.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thornton
Target entity description: William Thornton was a British-American physician and self-taught architect best known as the first Architect of the U.S. Capitol and designer of several prominent early Washington, D.C. buildings.
  • A. William Thornton
    William Thornton is one of the children of American actor, filmmaker, and musician Billy Bob Thornton.
  • B. William Robert Thornton
    William Robert Thornton, better known as Billy Bob Thornton, is an American actor, filmmaker, and musician recognized for his roles in films like "Sling Blade" and "A Simple Plan."
  • C. James Hoban
    James Hoban was an Irish-born American architect best known for designing the White House in Washington, D.C.
  • D. James Gorham
    James Gorham was a colonial-era New England settler associated with early Plymouth Colony family lineages.
  • E. Benjamin Henry Latrobe
    Benjamin Henry Latrobe was a pioneering British-American architect often regarded as the father of American architecture, known for his influential work on the United States Capitol and other early federal buildings.
  • 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_69d381be340c8190b05998703d42d224 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4ea0f7d188190a60a7c3832c51515 completed April 7, 2026, 11:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d7fc043074819083d219ec1c40f931 completed April 9, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d822d6a0188190a7ee6de5aab50486 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d859e40bf88190a6dc8deed3049d31 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:10 p.m.