Triple

T2191672
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McHale E49874 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Tom McHale (novelist)
Tom McHale (novelist) was an American author known for his darkly comic and satirical novels, particularly those exploring Irish-American Catholic life in mid-20th-century America.
E242505 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: Tom McHale (novelist) | Statement: [McHale, hasNotableBearer, Tom McHale (novelist)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom McHale (novelist)
Context triple: [McHale, hasNotableBearer, Tom McHale (novelist)]
  • A. Thomas McElwee
    Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
  • B. 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.
  • C. John McShain
    John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
  • D. Charles Hoover
    Charles Hoover is a member of the Hoover family, known primarily as the brother of American engineer and diplomat Herbert Hoover Jr.
  • E. Thomas McCarthy
    Thomas McCarthy is an American philosopher and critical theorist best known for his work on critical theory and his extensive scholarship and translations on Jürgen Habermas.
  • 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: Tom McHale (novelist)
Triple: [McHale, hasNotableBearer, Tom McHale (novelist)]
Generated description
Tom McHale (novelist) was an American author known for his darkly comic and satirical novels, particularly those exploring Irish-American Catholic life in mid-20th-century America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom McHale (novelist)
Target entity description: Tom McHale (novelist) was an American author known for his darkly comic and satirical novels, particularly those exploring Irish-American Catholic life in mid-20th-century America.
  • A. Thomas McElwee
    Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
  • B. 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.
  • C. John McShain
    John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
  • D. Charles Hoover
    Charles Hoover is a member of the Hoover family, known primarily as the brother of American engineer and diplomat Herbert Hoover Jr.
  • E. Thomas McCarthy
    Thomas McCarthy is an American philosopher and critical theorist best known for his work on critical theory and his extensive scholarship and translations on Jürgen Habermas.
  • 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_69a88aaba3c48190b351cab9b26989ff completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbf48ceb48190956df39377df0548 completed March 7, 2026, 6:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae5db283cc8190b75870cb2aabc5af completed March 9, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae5e7b13108190bc3f4edbff3bdb24 completed March 9, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae5edfe80481908c3304c917c9065b completed March 9, 2026, 5:47 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:46 p.m.