Triple

T14607338
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bishop of Northern Michigan E342865 entity
Predicate officeHolders P9949 FINISHED
Object Thomas K. Ray
Thomas K. Ray is an American Episcopal bishop who served as the diocesan leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan.
E1108317 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 K. Ray | Statement: [Bishop of Northern Michigan, officeHolders, Thomas K. Ray]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas K. Ray
Context triple: [Bishop of Northern Michigan, officeHolders, Thomas K. Ray]
  • A. Robert L. Crippen
    Robert L. Crippen is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain best known for serving as pilot on the first Space Shuttle mission and later commanding three additional shuttle flights.
  • B. Charles J.D. Schlissel
    Charles J.D. Schlissel is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood thrillers such as "Flightplan."
  • C. Peter B. Dervan
    Peter B. Dervan is an American chemist renowned for pioneering work in bioorganic chemistry, particularly the design of small molecules that recognize and bind specific DNA sequences.
  • D. David W. Gray
    David W. Gray is a distinguished film industry sound engineer recognized with the Academy’s Gordon E. Sawyer Award for his significant technological contributions to motion picture production.
  • E. Sheldon Keck
    Sheldon Keck was a pioneering American art conservator and educator known for advancing modern conservation practices and training in the United States.
  • 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 K. Ray
Triple: [Bishop of Northern Michigan, officeHolders, Thomas K. Ray]
Generated description
Thomas K. Ray is an American Episcopal bishop who served as the diocesan leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas K. Ray
Target entity description: Thomas K. Ray is an American Episcopal bishop who served as the diocesan leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan.
  • A. Robert L. Crippen
    Robert L. Crippen is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain best known for serving as pilot on the first Space Shuttle mission and later commanding three additional shuttle flights.
  • B. Charles J.D. Schlissel
    Charles J.D. Schlissel is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood thrillers such as "Flightplan."
  • C. Peter B. Dervan
    Peter B. Dervan is an American chemist renowned for pioneering work in bioorganic chemistry, particularly the design of small molecules that recognize and bind specific DNA sequences.
  • D. David W. Gray
    David W. Gray is a distinguished film industry sound engineer recognized with the Academy’s Gordon E. Sawyer Award for his significant technological contributions to motion picture production.
  • E. Sheldon Keck
    Sheldon Keck was a pioneering American art conservator and educator known for advancing modern conservation practices and training in the United States.
  • 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_69d822dec68081908c2553145c4051dc completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb44d327c8190a8d20568429d0f80 completed April 14, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd94d09e988190a2a2a1332397b412 completed May 8, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd9828129c8190bd7445e99dadc618 completed May 8, 2026, 8 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd98cf0bcc81909dac826a32daaf04 completed May 8, 2026, 8:03 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:25 a.m.