Triple

T566895
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject City on a Hill E13572 entity
Predicate executiveProducer P7225 FINISHED
Object Tom Fontana
Tom Fontana is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and producing acclaimed series such as "Oz," "Homicide: Life on the Street," and "Borgia."
 E71142 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 Fontana | Statement: [City on a Hill, executiveProducer, Tom Fontana]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tom Fontana
Context triple: [City on a Hill, executiveProducer, Tom Fontana]
  • A. Tommy Mottola
    Tommy Mottola is an American music executive and former head of Sony Music Entertainment, known for managing and developing the careers of numerous major pop artists.
  • B. Frank Basile
    Frank Basile is an American jazz baritone saxophonist and bandleader known for his work in the New York jazz scene.
  • C. Brian Bilello
    Brian Bilello is an American soccer executive best known for leading Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution as the club’s president.
  • D. Robert Frasca
    Robert Frasca was an American architect known for his influential urban and civic designs, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
  • E. Michele Novaro
    Michele Novaro was a 19th-century Italian composer best known for writing the music to Italy’s national anthem, "Il Canto degli Italiani."
  • 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 Fontana
Triple: [City on a Hill, executiveProducer, Tom Fontana]
Generated description
Tom Fontana is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and producing acclaimed series such as "Oz," "Homicide: Life on the Street," and "Borgia."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tom Fontana
Target entity description: Tom Fontana is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and producing acclaimed series such as "Oz," "Homicide: Life on the Street," and "Borgia."
  • A. Tommy Mottola
    Tommy Mottola is an American music executive and former head of Sony Music Entertainment, known for managing and developing the careers of numerous major pop artists.
  • B. Frank Basile
    Frank Basile is an American jazz baritone saxophonist and bandleader known for his work in the New York jazz scene.
  • C. Brian Bilello
    Brian Bilello is an American soccer executive best known for leading Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution as the club’s president.
  • D. Robert Frasca
    Robert Frasca was an American architect known for his influential urban and civic designs, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
  • E. Michele Novaro
    Michele Novaro was a 19th-century Italian composer best known for writing the music to Italy’s national anthem, "Il Canto degli Italiani."
  • 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_69a4933edcf08190b35ecfd6014caee6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49b01aca48190944408d066519149 completed March 1, 2026, 8:01 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4efd0d5b88190a8c0822800f48e2a completed March 2, 2026, 2:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4f043efec8190a3f53ab2764252be completed March 2, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4f3eb1e3481909aa2b8290ed99e49 completed March 2, 2026, 2:20 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.