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)]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.