Triple
T17398843
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Mercantile National Bank at Dallas |
E423029
|
entity |
| Predicate | keyPerson |
P256
|
FINISHED |
| Object | R. L. Thornton |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
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: R. L. Thornton | Statement: [Mercantile National Bank at Dallas, keyPerson, R. L. Thornton]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. L. Thornton Context triple: [Mercantile National Bank at Dallas, keyPerson, R. L. Thornton]
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A.
R. L. Thornton
chosen
R. L. Thornton was a prominent mid-20th-century Dallas businessman and civic leader who played a key role in the city’s economic growth and urban development.
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B.
L.C. Thurman
L.C. Thurman was a Chicago club owner best known for establishing the influential blues venue Checkerboard Lounge, a key hub for South Side blues musicians.
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C.
R. L. Vaught
R. L. Vaught was an American logician known for his influential work in model theory and mathematical logic.
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D.
T. C. Morrow
T. C. Morrow was a businessman best known for owning the Houston Mavericks professional basketball franchise in the late 1960s American Basketball Association.
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E.
Theodore West
Theodore West is a rural locality within Queensland’s Banana Shire, known for its agricultural landscape and small-community character.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d889d710288190bf0f4762801fefae |
completed | April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e43abf7ea08190a9d9f9358e3bb684 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 2:15 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:45 a.m.