Triple

T12466100
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Telford E297928 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Thomas
Thomas is a common masculine given name of Aramaic origin, traditionally interpreted to mean "twin."
E67625 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: [Thomas Telford, givenName, Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Context triple: [Thomas Telford, 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 first name of American country music songwriter and recording artist Thom Schuyler.
  • C. 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."
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the middle name of the individual Samuel Thomas Wilson.
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas Einstein is an American anesthesiologist and great-grandson of physicist Albert Einstein.
  • 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: [Thomas Telford, givenName, Thomas]
Generated description
Thomas is a common masculine given name of Aramaic origin, traditionally interpreted to mean "twin."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Target entity description: Thomas is a common masculine given name of Aramaic origin, traditionally interpreted to mean "twin."
  • A. Thomas chosen
    Thomas is a common masculine given name of Aramaic origin, widely used in English-speaking and many other cultures.
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is a common surname of English and Welsh origin, derived from the given name Thomas and borne by numerous notable individuals worldwide.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Malthus, the influential English economist and demographer known for his theories on population growth and resource limits.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the given first name of Tom Harmon, the famed American football player and sportscaster.
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Paine, the influential 18th-century political philosopher and writer known for works like "Common Sense" and "The Rights of Man."
  • F. None of above.

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_69d6ada270808190b1a2b2e7b02bb426 completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94db7828481909d8f02b2fde83567 completed April 10, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f65ea44a808190af2c5a6633120814 completed May 2, 2026, 8:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f661369d608190b7b4f8b2bcf6e9b3 completed May 2, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f661b369fc81909ced522d7057589e completed May 2, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:56 p.m.