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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.