Triple

T15740769
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Comforts of Home E381594 entity
Predicate protagonist P268 FINISHED
Object Thomas
Thomas is the central character in Flannery O’Connor’s short story “The Comforts of Home,” whose rigid moralism and conflicted inner life drive the story’s darkly comic and tragic events.
E1174564 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: [The Comforts of Home, protagonist, Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Context triple: [The Comforts of Home, protagonist, Thomas]
  • A. Thomas
    Thomas is the full given name of Tom Thibodeau, an American professional basketball coach known for his defensive-minded teams in the NBA.
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas, also known as Doubting Thomas, was one of Jesus Christ’s Twelve Apostles, remembered for initially doubting the Resurrection until he saw and touched Jesus’ wounds.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Old Tom Morris, the 19th-century Scottish golfer regarded as a pioneer and four-time Open Championship winner.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the formal given name of Tom Coughlin, the American football coach best known for leading the New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories.
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of American politician Tom DeLay, a former House Majority Leader known for his influential role in U.S. Republican politics in the 1990s and early 2000s.
  • 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: [The Comforts of Home, protagonist, Thomas]
Generated description
Thomas is the central character in Flannery O’Connor’s short story “The Comforts of Home,” whose rigid moralism and conflicted inner life drive the story’s darkly comic and tragic events.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Target entity description: Thomas is the central character in Flannery O’Connor’s short story “The Comforts of Home,” whose rigid moralism and conflicted inner life drive the story’s darkly comic and tragic events.
  • A. Thomas
    Thomas is the brave and resourceful protagonist of *The Maze Runner* series, who awakens in a mysterious labyrinth with no memory of his past and becomes a key leader in the fight for survival and escape.
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of the American novelist Thomas Wolfe, known for his expansive, autobiographical fiction such as "Look Homeward, Angel."
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the formal given name of the American author and journalist Tom Wolfe, known for his pioneering work in New Journalism.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the young and initially reluctant prince of Delain who becomes the central figure in Stephen King’s fantasy novel "The Eyes of the Dragon," evolving from a manipulated child into a more self-aware and courageous ruler.
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is the given first name of the renowned American playwright Tennessee Williams, known for works such as "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
  • 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_69d86d9cdb648190bf3171be0bd7d872 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04fd816308190a297986ee7e5554c completed April 16, 2026, 2:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff82f05d648190a0c73b60dc027287 completed May 9, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff83b7a534819090e24491579376c3 completed May 9, 2026, 6:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff844fa00c8190a47eb46394db097b completed May 9, 2026, 7 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:46 a.m.