Triple

T23200048
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History E579980 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Robert Paul Thomas — NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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 Paul Thomas | Statement: [The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, author, Robert Paul Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert Paul Thomas
Context triple: [The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, author, Robert Paul Thomas]
  • A. Robert Paul Thomas chosen
    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.
  • B. Robert Thomas
    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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Billy Thomas
    Billy Thomas is an American musician best known as a drummer and vocalist in the Nashville-based Western swing band The Time Jumpers.
  • 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.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

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_69e24600eed08190bd7e5295653a1503 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f19078f28c8190973f1bd6f2bceb5a completed April 29, 2026, 5 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:06 p.m.