Triple

T14216908
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Olly Alexander E352376 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Oliver Alexander Thornton
Oliver Alexander Thornton, known professionally as Olly Alexander, is a British singer, songwriter, and actor best known as the lead vocalist of the band Years & Years and for his role in the TV series "It's a Sin."
E1090059 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: Oliver Alexander Thornton | Statement: [Olly Alexander, birthName, Oliver Alexander Thornton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oliver Alexander Thornton
Context triple: [Olly Alexander, birthName, Oliver Alexander Thornton]
  • A. Thomas Oliver
    Thomas Oliver was a 17th-century Salem resident known primarily as the husband of Bridget Bishop, the first person executed during the Salem witch trials.
  • B. Ossian Cole Simonds
    Ossian Cole Simonds was a prominent American landscape architect known for his naturalistic designs and influential work in shaping early landscape architecture in the United States.
  • C. Eleutheros Cooke
    Eleutheros Cooke was an American lawyer and politician from Ohio who served in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 19th century.
  • D. William Atkinson Jones
    William Atkinson Jones was a U.S. Congressman from Virginia best known for sponsoring landmark legislation on American territorial policy, including measures affecting Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
  • E. William Henry Drayton
    William Henry Drayton was an American lawyer and South Carolina statesman who became a prominent Patriot leader and a signer of the Articles of Confederation during the American Revolution.
  • 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: Oliver Alexander Thornton
Triple: [Olly Alexander, birthName, Oliver Alexander Thornton]
Generated description
Oliver Alexander Thornton, known professionally as Olly Alexander, is a British singer, songwriter, and actor best known as the lead vocalist of the band Years & Years and for his role in the TV series "It's a Sin."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oliver Alexander Thornton
Target entity description: Oliver Alexander Thornton, known professionally as Olly Alexander, is a British singer, songwriter, and actor best known as the lead vocalist of the band Years & Years and for his role in the TV series "It's a Sin."
  • A. Thomas Oliver
    Thomas Oliver was a 17th-century Salem resident known primarily as the husband of Bridget Bishop, the first person executed during the Salem witch trials.
  • B. Ossian Cole Simonds
    Ossian Cole Simonds was a prominent American landscape architect known for his naturalistic designs and influential work in shaping early landscape architecture in the United States.
  • C. Eleutheros Cooke
    Eleutheros Cooke was an American lawyer and politician from Ohio who served in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 19th century.
  • D. William Atkinson Jones
    William Atkinson Jones was a U.S. Congressman from Virginia best known for sponsoring landmark legislation on American territorial policy, including measures affecting Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
  • E. William Henry Drayton
    William Henry Drayton was an American lawyer and South Carolina statesman who became a prominent Patriot leader and a signer of the Articles of Confederation during the American Revolution.
  • 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_69d8278a06e481908b5d6af0a8afe737 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de6210213481908fac6893e8a9f143 completed April 14, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd324d66a48190b58f6ce3a7c7facc completed May 8, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd36ce463c8190adb2f17d3770910b completed May 8, 2026, 1:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd372189748190bc44aae93cc0e4df completed May 8, 2026, 1:06 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:06 a.m.