Triple

T13316975
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Control Data Corporation E317210 entity
Predicate employed P7 FINISHED
Object James E. Thornton — 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: James E. Thornton | Statement: [Control Data Corporation, employed, James E. Thornton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James E. Thornton
Context triple: [Control Data Corporation, employed, James E. Thornton]
  • A. Charles H. Thornton
    Charles H. Thornton is a prominent American structural engineer and industry leader best known as a co-founder of the global engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti.
  • B. Charles B. Thornton
    Charles B. Thornton was an American businessman best known as the founder and longtime leader of the major defense and electronics conglomerate Litton Industries.
  • C. Frank B. Wynn
    Frank B. Wynn was an American physician, conservationist, and mountaineer known for his pioneering climbs and advocacy for national parks.
  • D. George H. Eldridge
    George H. Eldridge was the disability benefits claimant whose challenge to due process protections in benefit termination proceedings led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Mathews v. Eldridge.
  • E. Wendell O. Pruitt
    Wendell O. Pruitt was a pioneering African American fighter pilot and war hero from St. Louis who served with distinction in World War II as one of the Tuskegee Airmen.
  • 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: James E. Thornton
Target entity description: James E. Thornton was a prominent American computer engineer best known for his pioneering work on high-performance mainframe and supercomputer architectures at Control Data Corporation.
  • A. Charles H. Thornton
    Charles H. Thornton is a prominent American structural engineer and industry leader best known as a co-founder of the global engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti.
  • B. Charles B. Thornton
    Charles B. Thornton was an American businessman best known as the founder and longtime leader of the major defense and electronics conglomerate Litton Industries.
  • C. Frank B. Wynn
    Frank B. Wynn was an American physician, conservationist, and mountaineer known for his pioneering climbs and advocacy for national parks.
  • D. George H. Eldridge
    George H. Eldridge was the disability benefits claimant whose challenge to due process protections in benefit termination proceedings led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Mathews v. Eldridge.
  • E. Wendell O. Pruitt
    Wendell O. Pruitt was a pioneering African American fighter pilot and war hero from St. Louis who served with distinction in World War II as one of the Tuskegee Airmen.
  • 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_69d806b4d62c81908d4ced1665414be5 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d990f9a384819085890e18255ee339 completed April 11, 2026, 12:08 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:29 p.m.