Triple

T7172846
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Edwards (critic) E167244 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Thomas Edwards, an English literary critic and poet known for his 18th-century work "The Canons of Criticism."
E655691 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: Thomas | Statement: [Thomas Edwards (critic), givenName, Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Context triple: [Thomas Edwards (critic), givenName, Thomas]
  • A. Thomas
    Thomas is the middle name of Edward Thomas Wailes, an American diplomat.
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is the given first name of the renowned American playwright Tennessee Williams, known for works such as "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the middle name of William T. Sampson, a notable U.S. Navy admiral from the Spanish–American War era.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the given first name of American astronaut Ken Mattingly, known for his role in the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs.
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Sir Thomas Blamey, an Australian field marshal and senior military commander during World War II.
  • 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: Thomas
Triple: [Thomas Edwards (critic), givenName, Thomas]
Generated description
Thomas is the given name of Thomas Edwards, an English literary critic and poet known for his 18th-century work "The Canons of Criticism."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Target entity description: Thomas is the given name of Thomas Edwards, an English literary critic and poet known for his 18th-century work "The Canons of Criticism."
  • A. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Paine, the influential 18th-century political philosopher and writer known for works like "Common Sense" and "The Rights of Man."
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Gainsborough, the renowned 18th-century English portrait and landscape painter.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Cranmer, the 16th-century Archbishop of Canterbury and a leading figure in the English Reformation.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Malthus, the influential English economist and demographer known for his theories on population growth and resource limits.
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, a prominent 17th-century English statesman and politician.
  • 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_69c68889a2748190a316c5e65360361a completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e88b0a448190a19bd2d9e2a310a4 completed March 27, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7e510cb488190abde1c66e2fa4db4 completed March 28, 2026, 2:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7e61a517081909fd5dedb8b9c58f0 completed March 28, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7e79dabc08190b486660def5d6c9e completed March 28, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:48 p.m.