Triple
T15488247
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thomas F. Wilson |
E377107
|
entity |
| Predicate | birthName |
P65
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas Francis Wilson Jr. |
E377107
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Francis Wilson Jr. | Statement: [Thomas F. Wilson, birthName, Thomas Francis Wilson Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Francis Wilson Jr. Context triple: [Thomas F. Wilson, birthName, Thomas Francis Wilson Jr.]
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A.
Thomas F. Wilson
chosen
Thomas F. Wilson is an American actor and comedian best known for playing bully Biff Tannen and his relatives across the Back to the Future film trilogy.
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B.
Ralph Cookerly Wilson Jr.
Ralph Cookerly Wilson Jr. was an American businessman best known as the founding owner of the NFL’s Buffalo Bills and a key figure in the formation of the American Football League.
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C.
Louis D. Wilson
Louis D. Wilson was a 19th-century North Carolina politician and military officer after whom the city of Wilson, North Carolina, is named.
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D.
Theodore Shaw Wilson
Theodore Shaw Wilson, better known as Teddy Wilson, was an influential American jazz pianist celebrated for his elegant swing-era style and collaborations with artists like Benny Goodman and Billie Holiday.
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E.
Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
Robert Joseph Pershing Foster was an African American physician whose migration from the Jim Crow South to California is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s book *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d85cd21dcc81908646251b1c26ea00 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e03faaca588190b0397bc2e27a522a |
completed | April 16, 2026, 1:47 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ff3d4661088190bb53161247effcc4 |
completed | May 9, 2026, 1:57 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:48 a.m.