Triple

T1630524
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jack Black E35245 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Thomas Jacob Black
Thomas Jacob Black is an American actor, comedian, and musician best known for his energetic performances in films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of the comedy rock duo Tenacious D.
E185024 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 Jacob Black | Statement: [Jack Black, birthName, Thomas Jacob Black]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Jacob Black
Context triple: [Jack Black, birthName, Thomas Jacob Black]
  • A. James Black
    James Black was a Scottish pharmacologist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the first beta-blocker and the H2 receptor antagonist cimetidine, revolutionizing cardiovascular and ulcer treatment.
  • B. Thomas James
    Thomas James was a 17th-century Welsh explorer and navigator best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • C. Henry Black
    Henry Black was an American legal scholar best known for compiling influential legal reports and reference works, including the Black Reports.
  • D. Robert Barisford Brown
    Robert Barisford Brown is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and dancer best known as a member of New Edition and for his successful solo career in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
  • E. Winston Hubert McIntosh
    Winston Hubert McIntosh, better known as Peter Tosh, was a pioneering Jamaican reggae musician and founding member of The Wailers, renowned for his politically charged songs and advocacy for social justice and Rastafarianism.
  • 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 Jacob Black
Triple: [Jack Black, birthName, Thomas Jacob Black]
Generated description
Thomas Jacob Black is an American actor, comedian, and musician best known for his energetic performances in films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of the comedy rock duo Tenacious D.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Jacob Black
Target entity description: Thomas Jacob Black is an American actor, comedian, and musician best known for his energetic performances in films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of the comedy rock duo Tenacious D.
  • A. James Black
    James Black was a Scottish pharmacologist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the first beta-blocker and the H2 receptor antagonist cimetidine, revolutionizing cardiovascular and ulcer treatment.
  • B. Thomas James
    Thomas James was a 17th-century Welsh explorer and navigator best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • C. Henry Black
    Henry Black was an American legal scholar best known for compiling influential legal reports and reference works, including the Black Reports.
  • D. Robert Barisford Brown
    Robert Barisford Brown is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and dancer best known as a member of New Edition and for his successful solo career in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
  • E. Winston Hubert McIntosh
    Winston Hubert McIntosh, better known as Peter Tosh, was a pioneering Jamaican reggae musician and founding member of The Wailers, renowned for his politically charged songs and advocacy for social justice and Rastafarianism.
  • 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_69a886036bc081909ff5de16dbe5e8ea completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb3a9b634819086b44f1574e97dcb completed March 7, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad58d79bc88190bfc62f53dd8e8b90 completed March 8, 2026, 11:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad5a7f592881909b8fd45444e6d715 completed March 8, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad5b64a1f0819087338ee504f70f5c completed March 8, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:28 p.m.