Triple

T5686317
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Little Rock Nine E125321 entity
Predicate member P10 FINISHED
Object Jefferson Thomas
Jefferson Thomas was an American civil rights figure best known as one of the Little Rock Nine, the group of Black students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
E543762 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: Jefferson Thomas | Statement: [Little Rock Nine, member, Jefferson Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jefferson Thomas
Context triple: [Little Rock Nine, member, Jefferson Thomas]
  • A. Ben Young Mason
    Ben Young Mason is a television writer and producer best known for creating the science fiction series "Mars."
  • B. William Gibbons
    William Gibbons was an early 17th-century English navigator and explorer associated with Arctic and Northwest Passage voyages.
  • C. John Marshall Clemens
    John Marshall Clemens was an American lawyer, judge, and the father of author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).
  • D. Henry Boucha
    Henry Boucha was a prominent American ice hockey player from Warroad, Minnesota, who starred as a high school phenom, U.S. Olympian, and NHL forward in the 1970s.
  • E. Joseph L. Roberts Jr.
    Joseph L. Roberts Jr. was a prominent American pastor and theologian best known for his long tenure leading Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church after the era of Martin Luther King Jr.
  • 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: Jefferson Thomas
Triple: [Little Rock Nine, member, Jefferson Thomas]
Generated description
Jefferson Thomas was an American civil rights figure best known as one of the Little Rock Nine, the group of Black students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jefferson Thomas
Target entity description: Jefferson Thomas was an American civil rights figure best known as one of the Little Rock Nine, the group of Black students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
  • A. Ben Young Mason
    Ben Young Mason is a television writer and producer best known for creating the science fiction series "Mars."
  • B. William Gibbons
    William Gibbons was an early 17th-century English navigator and explorer associated with Arctic and Northwest Passage voyages.
  • C. John Marshall Clemens
    John Marshall Clemens was an American lawyer, judge, and the father of author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).
  • D. Henry Boucha
    Henry Boucha was a prominent American ice hockey player from Warroad, Minnesota, who starred as a high school phenom, U.S. Olympian, and NHL forward in the 1970s.
  • E. Joseph L. Roberts Jr.
    Joseph L. Roberts Jr. was a prominent American pastor and theologian best known for his long tenure leading Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church after the era of Martin Luther King Jr.
  • 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_69c0082a884c8190a79001bae658941f completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c023bbfb988190bb61c7d183660d5d completed March 22, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c07dd1758c8190ad92f250e5927c0b completed March 22, 2026, 11:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c08c8fc45c8190acca1193d4de5d2a completed March 23, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c08d08d76c8190b63f42b48f97749c completed March 23, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:44 p.m.