Triple

T4362535
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Graphic E98693 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object William Luson Thomas
William Luson Thomas was a 19th-century British wood-engraver and social reformer best known for founding the illustrated weekly newspaper The Graphic.
E434365 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: William Luson Thomas | Statement: [The Graphic, founder, William Luson Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Luson Thomas
Context triple: [The Graphic, founder, William Luson Thomas]
  • A. Carroll D. Wright
    Carroll D. Wright was a prominent American statistician and social reformer who served as the first U.S. Commissioner of Labor and became influential for his pioneering work in labor statistics and industrial relations.
  • B. C. Leonard Wilson
    C. Leonard Wilson was an early American mountaineer known for participating in the first ascent of North Palisade in California’s Sierra Nevada.
  • C. St. Clair Drake
    St. Clair Drake was an influential African American sociologist, anthropologist, and activist known for his pioneering studies of Black urban life and race relations, particularly in Chicago.
  • D. William Edwards
    William Edwards is known primarily as the son of Austrian-American character actor Snitz Edwards, who appeared in numerous silent and early sound films.
  • E. Elbert D. Thomas
    Elbert D. Thomas was an American educator and Democratic U.S. Senator from Utah who served from 1933 to 1951 and was known for his work on foreign policy and education.
  • 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: William Luson Thomas
Triple: [The Graphic, founder, William Luson Thomas]
Generated description
William Luson Thomas was a 19th-century British wood-engraver and social reformer best known for founding the illustrated weekly newspaper The Graphic.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Luson Thomas
Target entity description: William Luson Thomas was a 19th-century British wood-engraver and social reformer best known for founding the illustrated weekly newspaper The Graphic.
  • A. Carroll D. Wright
    Carroll D. Wright was a prominent American statistician and social reformer who served as the first U.S. Commissioner of Labor and became influential for his pioneering work in labor statistics and industrial relations.
  • B. C. Leonard Wilson
    C. Leonard Wilson was an early American mountaineer known for participating in the first ascent of North Palisade in California’s Sierra Nevada.
  • C. St. Clair Drake
    St. Clair Drake was an influential African American sociologist, anthropologist, and activist known for his pioneering studies of Black urban life and race relations, particularly in Chicago.
  • D. William Edwards
    William Edwards is known primarily as the son of Austrian-American character actor Snitz Edwards, who appeared in numerous silent and early sound films.
  • E. Elbert D. Thomas
    Elbert D. Thomas was an American educator and Democratic U.S. Senator from Utah who served from 1933 to 1951 and was known for his work on foreign policy and education.
  • 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_69b3454c772081908e20173e379e8ebe completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b351e5ee308190a9271e73689b4a2b completed March 12, 2026, 11:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5dbc68534819095ce62645ca79eff completed March 14, 2026, 10:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5df8336e881908c875b8411c2fe4d completed March 14, 2026, 10:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5e0ded0288190b615364e9ae10821 completed March 14, 2026, 10:27 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:16 p.m.