Triple

T11632820
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tommy Cogbill E276441 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Thomas
Thomas is the formal given name of American bassist, record producer, and session musician Tommy Cogbill, known for his influential work in soul, R&B, and country music.
E937166 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 | Statement: [Tommy Cogbill, givenName, Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Context triple: [Tommy Cogbill, givenName, Thomas]
  • A. Thomas
    Thomas, also known as Doubting Thomas, is one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus in the New Testament, remembered for initially doubting Jesus’ resurrection until he saw and touched Christ’s wounds.
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is the birth name of American actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black, known for films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of Tenacious D.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, a prominent 18th-century British Whig statesman and prime minister.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the first name of American country music songwriter and recording artist Thom Schuyler.
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Edwards, an English literary critic and poet known for his 18th-century work "The Canons of Criticism."
  • 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
Triple: [Tommy Cogbill, givenName, Thomas]
Generated description
Thomas is the formal given name of American bassist, record producer, and session musician Tommy Cogbill, known for his influential work in soul, R&B, and country music.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Target entity description: Thomas is the formal given name of American bassist, record producer, and session musician Tommy Cogbill, known for his influential work in soul, R&B, and country music.
  • A. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of American jazz trombonist and big band leader Tommy Dorsey, a prominent figure of the swing era.
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is the birth name of Thom Yorke, the English musician best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the band Radiohead.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the given first name of American folk singer-songwriter Tom Paxton, known for his influential protest and contemporary folk songs.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the first name of American country music songwriter and recording artist Thom Schuyler.
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is the given first name of the American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor Tom Waits.
  • 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_69d6aafa51148190ab84940694c00235 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a25aa9188190ab13d79139f37e7e completed April 10, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ee87077d008190874a8339b64dd5ec completed April 26, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ee9cf692e08190b135de0bd7f96274 completed April 26, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69eecd715b448190b738479b7c1379a2 completed April 27, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:39 p.m.