Triple

T19695093
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Million-Year Picnic E472935 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Timothy Thomas — NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Timothy Thomas | Statement: [The Million-Year Picnic, mainCharacter, Timothy Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Timothy Thomas
Context triple: [The Million-Year Picnic, mainCharacter, Timothy Thomas]
  • A. Timothy Thomas
    Timothy Thomas is the brother of songwriter and producer Theron Thomas, likely sharing a background connected to the music industry.
  • B. Timothy Matthews
    Timothy Matthews is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals in fields such as sports, media, and public service.
  • C. Timothy Edwards
    Timothy Edwards was a colonial New England Congregational minister and scholar, best known as the father of theologian Jonathan Edwards.
  • D. Timothy Arthur
    Timothy Arthur, often known as T. S. Arthur, was a 19th-century American author and temperance advocate best known for his moralistic tales such as "Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There."
  • E. Timothy Bottoms
    Timothy Bottoms is an American actor best known for his breakout leading role in the 1971 film "The Last Picture Show" and a career spanning film, television, and stage.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Timothy Thomas
Target entity description: Timothy Thomas is a central character in Ray Bradbury’s science fiction story “The Million-Year Picnic,” depicted as one of the children in a family escaping Earth to begin a new life on Mars.
  • A. Timothy Thomas
    Timothy Thomas is the brother of songwriter and producer Theron Thomas, likely sharing a background connected to the music industry.
  • B. Timothy Matthews
    Timothy Matthews is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals in fields such as sports, media, and public service.
  • C. Timothy Edwards
    Timothy Edwards was a colonial New England Congregational minister and scholar, best known as the father of theologian Jonathan Edwards.
  • D. Timothy Arthur
    Timothy Arthur, often known as T. S. Arthur, was a 19th-century American author and temperance advocate best known for his moralistic tales such as "Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There."
  • E. Timothy Bottoms
    Timothy Bottoms is an American actor best known for his breakout leading role in the 1971 film "The Last Picture Show" and a career spanning film, television, and stage.
  • F. None of above. chosen

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_69d8e515bef88190bc30781aea50537a completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6421385e88190b22b12ab3d851dea completed April 20, 2026, 3:11 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:46 p.m.