Triple

T12861011
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Kennedy Toole E307585 entity
Predicate mother P120 FINISHED
Object Thelma Ducoing Toole
Thelma Ducoing Toole was the devoted mother of novelist John Kennedy Toole, known for her crucial role in getting his posthumous Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "A Confederacy of Dunces" published.
E1012004 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: Thelma Ducoing Toole | Statement: [John Kennedy Toole, mother, Thelma Ducoing Toole]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thelma Ducoing Toole
Context triple: [John Kennedy Toole, mother, Thelma Ducoing Toole]
  • A. Thelma Dickinson
    Thelma Dickinson is one of the two main protagonists in the 1991 road film "Thelma & Louise," known for her transformation from a timid housewife into a rebellious fugitive.
  • B. Thelma Evans Anderson
    Thelma Evans Anderson is the intelligent and ambitious daughter character from the 1970s American sitcom "Good Times," portrayed by actress BernNadette Stanis.
  • C. Thelma Mothershed
    Thelma Mothershed is an American civil rights figure best known as one of the Little Rock Nine, the group of Black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
  • D. Thelma Lou
    Thelma Lou is a character from "The Andy Griffith Show," best known as the sweet-natured, patient girlfriend of deputy Barney Fife in the fictional town of Mayberry.
  • E. Thelma Catherine Ryan
    Thelma Catherine Ryan, better known as Pat Nixon, was the wife of U.S. President Richard Nixon and served as First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
  • 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: Thelma Ducoing Toole
Triple: [John Kennedy Toole, mother, Thelma Ducoing Toole]
Generated description
Thelma Ducoing Toole was the devoted mother of novelist John Kennedy Toole, known for her crucial role in getting his posthumous Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "A Confederacy of Dunces" published.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thelma Ducoing Toole
Target entity description: Thelma Ducoing Toole was the devoted mother of novelist John Kennedy Toole, known for her crucial role in getting his posthumous Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "A Confederacy of Dunces" published.
  • A. Thelma Dickinson
    Thelma Dickinson is one of the two main protagonists in the 1991 road film "Thelma & Louise," known for her transformation from a timid housewife into a rebellious fugitive.
  • B. Thelma Evans Anderson
    Thelma Evans Anderson is the intelligent and ambitious daughter character from the 1970s American sitcom "Good Times," portrayed by actress BernNadette Stanis.
  • C. Thelma Mothershed
    Thelma Mothershed is an American civil rights figure best known as one of the Little Rock Nine, the group of Black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
  • D. Thelma Lou
    Thelma Lou is a character from "The Andy Griffith Show," best known as the sweet-natured, patient girlfriend of deputy Barney Fife in the fictional town of Mayberry.
  • E. Thelma Catherine Ryan
    Thelma Catherine Ryan, better known as Pat Nixon, was the wife of U.S. President Richard Nixon and served as First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
  • 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_69d7bdf5e7cc8190be357278bc5ba3bb completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9708ba74881909b16c1e2ef5115db completed April 10, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6af533d188190b9c816cdc892fe99 completed May 3, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b02e3b9881909387c1f70176a1bd completed May 3, 2026, 2:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6b121fdb881909a9a321794a3b8f1 completed May 3, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:37 p.m.