Triple

T12059354
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject HNTB E287125 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William H. Thomas — NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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 H. Thomas | Statement: [HNTB, foundedBy, William H. Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William H. Thomas
Context triple: [HNTB, foundedBy, William H. Thomas]
  • A. William M. Thomas
    William M. Thomas was a prominent local figure associated with Bakersfield, California, for whom Meadows Field Airport was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
  • B. James A. Thomas
    James A. Thomas was a prominent American tobacco executive associated with the American Tobacco Company and Duke University.
  • C. Thomas H. Watts
    Thomas H. Watts was an American politician who served as the 18th Governor of Alabama during the Civil War and later became the state's attorney general.
  • D. Arthur B. McBride
    Arthur B. McBride was an American businessman best known for establishing and initially owning the Cleveland Browns professional football franchise.
  • E. Theodore A. Welton
    Theodore A. Welton was a physicist best known for co-formulating the fluctuation–dissipation theorem, a fundamental result in statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William H. Thomas
Target entity description: William H. Thomas was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the infrastructure design and engineering firm HNTB.
  • A. William M. Thomas
    William M. Thomas was a prominent local figure associated with Bakersfield, California, for whom Meadows Field Airport was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
  • B. James A. Thomas
    James A. Thomas was a prominent American tobacco executive associated with the American Tobacco Company and Duke University.
  • C. Thomas H. Watts
    Thomas H. Watts was an American politician who served as the 18th Governor of Alabama during the Civil War and later became the state's attorney general.
  • D. Arthur B. McBride
    Arthur B. McBride was an American businessman best known for establishing and initially owning the Cleveland Browns professional football franchise.
  • E. Theodore A. Welton
    Theodore A. Welton was a physicist best known for co-formulating the fluctuation–dissipation theorem, a fundamental result in statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69d6ab4780948190bdb9f7620c2ac27e completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9043dbccc8190bf9da181f826f0d8 completed April 10, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:47 p.m.