Triple

T10492509
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tomball, Texas E247452 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Thomas Henry Ball
Thomas Henry Ball was an American politician and attorney from Texas whose influence on regional development led to the city of Tomball being named in his honor.
E868805 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 Henry Ball | Statement: [Tomball, Texas, namedAfter, Thomas Henry Ball]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Henry Ball
Context triple: [Tomball, Texas, namedAfter, Thomas Henry Ball]
  • A. George M. Dawson
    George M. Dawson was a Canadian geologist and surveyor whose exploratory work in the Yukon and western Canada led to several places, including Dawson City, being named in his honor.
  • B. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • C. Henry William Stisted
    Henry William Stisted was a British army officer and colonial administrator who became the first Lieutenant Governor of Ontario after Canadian Confederation.
  • D. Henry Oscar Houghton
    Henry Oscar Houghton was a 19th-century American printer, publisher, and politician best known for co-founding the influential publishing house Houghton Mifflin.
  • E. J. Arthur Ball
    J. Arthur Ball was an early American cinematographer known for his work on pioneering color films in the silent era.
  • 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 Henry Ball
Triple: [Tomball, Texas, namedAfter, Thomas Henry Ball]
Generated description
Thomas Henry Ball was an American politician and attorney from Texas whose influence on regional development led to the city of Tomball being named in his honor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Henry Ball
Target entity description: Thomas Henry Ball was an American politician and attorney from Texas whose influence on regional development led to the city of Tomball being named in his honor.
  • A. George M. Dawson
    George M. Dawson was a Canadian geologist and surveyor whose exploratory work in the Yukon and western Canada led to several places, including Dawson City, being named in his honor.
  • B. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • C. Henry William Stisted
    Henry William Stisted was a British army officer and colonial administrator who became the first Lieutenant Governor of Ontario after Canadian Confederation.
  • D. Henry Oscar Houghton
    Henry Oscar Houghton was a 19th-century American printer, publisher, and politician best known for co-founding the influential publishing house Houghton Mifflin.
  • E. J. Arthur Ball
    J. Arthur Ball was an early American cinematographer known for his work on pioneering color films in the silent era.
  • 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_69d381c309b88190af78aa681cf6a4c2 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d5097ecbec8190807c4fcc85662026 completed April 7, 2026, 1:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d90dd040f48190a645ebd131f9205c completed April 10, 2026, 2:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d911dd4198819089585462af6b5ef5 completed April 10, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d9126254408190a79ea571649416f6 completed April 10, 2026, 3:08 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:24 p.m.