Triple

T1796692
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gardner E39619 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Thomas Gardner
Thomas Gardner is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, sports, and other fields.
E216446 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 Gardner | Statement: [Gardner, hasNotableBearer, Thomas Gardner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Gardner
Context triple: [Gardner, hasNotableBearer, Thomas Gardner]
  • A. Gardner James
    Gardner James was an American film actor active during the silent and early sound eras, known for supporting roles in adventure and drama films.
  • B. George Storrs
    George Storrs was a 19th-century American Christian preacher and writer known for his advocacy of conditional immortality and nontrinitarian views, which significantly shaped early Adventist and Bible Student theology.
  • C. Melvin Gardner
    Melvin Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner and a member of the Gardner family from North Carolina.
  • D. John Galen Howard
    John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • E. Lyman Cornelius Smith
    Lyman Cornelius Smith was an American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for his role in the typewriter and firearms industries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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 Gardner
Triple: [Gardner, hasNotableBearer, Thomas Gardner]
Generated description
Thomas Gardner is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, sports, and other fields.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Gardner
Target entity description: Thomas Gardner is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, sports, and other fields.
  • A. Gardner James
    Gardner James was an American film actor active during the silent and early sound eras, known for supporting roles in adventure and drama films.
  • B. George Storrs
    George Storrs was a 19th-century American Christian preacher and writer known for his advocacy of conditional immortality and nontrinitarian views, which significantly shaped early Adventist and Bible Student theology.
  • C. Melvin Gardner
    Melvin Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner and a member of the Gardner family from North Carolina.
  • D. John Galen Howard
    John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • E. Lyman Cornelius Smith
    Lyman Cornelius Smith was an American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for his role in the typewriter and firearms industries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69a88632aa588190ba3978fde0db5bbd completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa653ef7f481908226ff71afca672a completed March 6, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adf3c192f08190a1a134e541be1103 completed March 8, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adf5b31274819086c266c1a8ba2cd8 completed March 8, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adf6108c988190b992de20cf287da7 completed March 8, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.