Triple

T6237631
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Berry E139515 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object William Nathan Berry
William Nathan Berry is the birth name of Thomas Berry, the influential 20th-century cultural historian and eco-theologian known for his work on the relationship between humans and the Earth.
E579268 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 Nathan Berry | Statement: [Thomas Berry, birthName, William Nathan Berry]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Nathan Berry
Context triple: [Thomas Berry, birthName, William Nathan Berry]
  • A. H. M. Woodard
    H. M. Woodard was the father of Academy Award–winning American character actress Jane Darwell.
  • B. Benjamin Hooks
    Benjamin Hooks was an American civil rights leader, attorney, minister, and former FCC commissioner best known for serving as executive director of the NAACP from 1977 to 1992.
  • C. Mahlon Todd Williams
    Mahlon Todd Williams is a cinematographer best known for his work on the animated feature film "PAW Patrol: The Movie."
  • D. Boyd Tinsley
    Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
  • E. Elkin Mathews
    Elkin Mathews was a British publisher and bookseller best known for championing early works of major modernist writers, including W.B. Yeats and James Joyce.
  • 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 Nathan Berry
Triple: [Thomas Berry, birthName, William Nathan Berry]
Generated description
William Nathan Berry is the birth name of Thomas Berry, the influential 20th-century cultural historian and eco-theologian known for his work on the relationship between humans and the Earth.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Nathan Berry
Target entity description: William Nathan Berry is the birth name of Thomas Berry, the influential 20th-century cultural historian and eco-theologian known for his work on the relationship between humans and the Earth.
  • A. H. M. Woodard
    H. M. Woodard was the father of Academy Award–winning American character actress Jane Darwell.
  • B. Benjamin Hooks
    Benjamin Hooks was an American civil rights leader, attorney, minister, and former FCC commissioner best known for serving as executive director of the NAACP from 1977 to 1992.
  • C. Mahlon Todd Williams
    Mahlon Todd Williams is a cinematographer best known for his work on the animated feature film "PAW Patrol: The Movie."
  • D. Boyd Tinsley
    Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
  • E. Elkin Mathews
    Elkin Mathews was a British publisher and bookseller best known for championing early works of major modernist writers, including W.B. Yeats and James Joyce.
  • 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_69c008b0e7ac8190808a59573ee646f3 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0630373088190a9d4b1f7e442c129 completed March 22, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c243ff29248190abbb748601039f60 completed March 24, 2026, 7:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c2461400288190ba131686752b2ab7 completed March 24, 2026, 8:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c2467575848190abf321404a8df3c4 completed March 24, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:23 p.m.