Triple

T14535465
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tom Shadyac E341032 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Thomas
Thomas is the first name of American film director, screenwriter, and producer Tom Shadyac, known for hit comedies like "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Bruce Almighty."
E1104704 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: [Tom Shadyac, givenName, Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Context triple: [Tom Shadyac, 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: [Tom Shadyac, givenName, Thomas]
Generated description
Thomas is the first name of American film director, screenwriter, and producer Tom Shadyac, known for hit comedies like "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Bruce Almighty."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Target entity description: Thomas is the first name of American film director, screenwriter, and producer Tom Shadyac, known for hit comedies like "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Bruce Almighty."
  • A. Thomas
    Thomas is the full given name of Tom Mankiewicz, an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work on James Bond and Superman films.
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is the birth name of American actor and producer Tom Cruise, one of Hollywood’s most famous and highest-grossing movie stars.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Tom Savini, the renowned American special effects makeup artist, actor, and director known for his groundbreaking work in horror films.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the given first name of American comedian and actor Tim Conway, known for his work on "The Carol Burnett Show."
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is the birth name of American actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black, known for films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of Tenacious D.
  • 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_69d822dac79c8190a84a073f3cbaced5 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb1b9d39881908c7a3a5b17d432af completed April 14, 2026, 9:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd7a3bade48190a4608ca46f5f558a completed May 8, 2026, 5:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd7d4949b88190a81573cb03867912 completed May 8, 2026, 6:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd7da1b73081908062306000a0fd22 completed May 8, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:22 a.m.