Triple

T5377438
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lincoln College, Oxford E112995 entity
Predicate hasAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object D. M. Thomas
D. M. Thomas is a British novelist and poet best known for his controversial, psychologically complex works such as the novel "The White Hotel."
E514969 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: D. M. Thomas | Statement: [Lincoln College, Oxford, hasAlumni, D. M. Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: D. M. Thomas
Context triple: [Lincoln College, Oxford, hasAlumni, D. M. Thomas]
  • A. David Herbert
    David Herbert is a renowned American percussionist best known for his role as principal timpanist with major U.S. orchestras.
  • B. Edwin Denison Morgan
    Edwin Denison Morgan was a 19th-century American politician, businessman, and Civil War-era governor of New York who also served as a U.S. senator and influential Republican Party leader.
  • C. R. S. Thomas
    R. S. Thomas was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest renowned for his austere, spiritually searching verse and vivid depictions of rural Welsh life.
  • D. Adrian Stephen
    Adrian Stephen was a British psychoanalyst, writer, and member of the Bloomsbury Group, known also as the younger brother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.
  • E. Richard Llewellyn
    Richard Llewellyn was a Welsh novelist best known for his 1939 work "How Green Was My Valley," a classic depiction of life in a South Wales mining community.
  • 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: D. M. Thomas
Triple: [Lincoln College, Oxford, hasAlumni, D. M. Thomas]
Generated description
D. M. Thomas is a British novelist and poet best known for his controversial, psychologically complex works such as the novel "The White Hotel."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: D. M. Thomas
Target entity description: D. M. Thomas is a British novelist and poet best known for his controversial, psychologically complex works such as the novel "The White Hotel."
  • A. David Herbert
    David Herbert is a renowned American percussionist best known for his role as principal timpanist with major U.S. orchestras.
  • B. Edwin Denison Morgan
    Edwin Denison Morgan was a 19th-century American politician, businessman, and Civil War-era governor of New York who also served as a U.S. senator and influential Republican Party leader.
  • C. R. S. Thomas
    R. S. Thomas was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest renowned for his austere, spiritually searching verse and vivid depictions of rural Welsh life.
  • D. Adrian Stephen
    Adrian Stephen was a British psychoanalyst, writer, and member of the Bloomsbury Group, known also as the younger brother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.
  • E. Richard Llewellyn
    Richard Llewellyn was a Welsh novelist best known for his 1939 work "How Green Was My Valley," a classic depiction of life in a South Wales mining community.
  • 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_69bd4436a1988190af18dcff7fd306b4 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd86cb13ac81909dc364e7d3605844 completed March 20, 2026, 5:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf29428cec8190a20bea8fcae59d8f completed March 21, 2026, 11:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf29ba3e1c8190987f22566a9ec806 completed March 21, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf2a489ec88190bbeb628b4903607c completed March 21, 2026, 11:31 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:03 p.m.