Triple

T15378078
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas S. Ricketts E367721 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Thomas S. Ricketts, the American businessman best known as the chairman and owner of the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team.
E367721 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: [Thomas S. Ricketts, givenName, Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Context triple: [Thomas S. Ricketts, 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: [Thomas S. Ricketts, givenName, Thomas]
Generated description
Thomas is the given name of Thomas S. Ricketts, the American businessman best known as the chairman and owner of the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Target entity description: Thomas is the given name of Thomas S. Ricketts, the American businessman best known as the chairman and owner of the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team.
  • A. Thomas chosen
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas S. Ricketts, the American businessman and chairman of the Chicago Cubs.
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is the formal given name of Tom Yawkey, the longtime owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the full given name of Tom Thibodeau, an American professional basketball coach known for his defensive-minded teams in the NBA.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the formal given name of Tom Vilsack, an American politician who has served multiple terms as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is the full given name of Tom Osborne, the renowned former University of Nebraska football coach and U.S. congressman.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d85a1551a08190ba2caea7cd51c639 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e03e6044488190b0499db109f7f821 completed April 16, 2026, 1:41 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff0b43bfcc8190b1b373ee10786f1e completed May 9, 2026, 10:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff0bd62b308190b835ec76aba4b8cc completed May 9, 2026, 10:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff0c3e7b848190942cfa9d4b7bbd4c completed May 9, 2026, 10:28 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:18 a.m.