Triple
T19695094
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Million-Year Picnic |
E472935
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Robert Thomas |
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|
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: Robert Thomas | Statement: [The Million-Year Picnic, mainCharacter, Robert Thomas]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Thomas Context triple: [The Million-Year Picnic, mainCharacter, Robert Thomas]
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A.
Robert Paul Thomas
Robert Paul Thomas was an economic historian known for his influential collaborative work with Douglass C. North on the economic history of Western Europe and institutional change.
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B.
Dean Thomas
Dean Thomas is a fictional Gryffindor student and member of Dumbledore's Army in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
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C.
Bob Thomas
Bob Thomas is an artist best known for designing the Grateful Dead’s iconic “dancing bears” imagery.
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D.
Billy Thomas
Billy Thomas is a central character on the television series "Ally McBeal," known as Ally's former childhood sweetheart and colleague whose complicated relationship with her drives much of the show's emotional drama.
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E.
Billy Thomas
Billy Thomas is an American stock car racing driver best known for his involvement with the famed Alabama Gang of NASCAR competitors.
- 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: Robert Thomas Target entity description: Robert Thomas is the protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s science fiction short story “The Million-Year Picnic,” a father who leads his family to Mars to escape a troubled Earth and begin a new life.
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A.
Robert Paul Thomas
Robert Paul Thomas was an economic historian known for his influential collaborative work with Douglass C. North on the economic history of Western Europe and institutional change.
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B.
Dean Thomas
Dean Thomas is a fictional Gryffindor student and member of Dumbledore's Army in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
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C.
Bob Thomas
Bob Thomas is an artist best known for designing the Grateful Dead’s iconic “dancing bears” imagery.
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D.
Billy Thomas
Billy Thomas is a central character on the television series "Ally McBeal," known as Ally's former childhood sweetheart and colleague whose complicated relationship with her drives much of the show's emotional drama.
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E.
Billy Thomas
Billy Thomas is an American stock car racing driver best known for his involvement with the famed Alabama Gang of NASCAR competitors.
- 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.