Triple

T7230319
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Clockers E154883 entity
Predicate starredActor P5563 FINISHED
Object Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Thomas Jefferson Byrd was an American character actor best known for his powerful supporting roles in several Spike Lee films and other notable crime dramas.
E650622 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 Jefferson Byrd | Statement: [Clockers, starredActor, Thomas Jefferson Byrd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Context triple: [Clockers, starredActor, Thomas Jefferson Byrd]
  • A. Thomas Beall Davis
    Thomas Beall Davis was an American businessman, railroad executive, and Democratic politician from West Virginia who served in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 20th century.
  • B. John Hunter Blair
    John Hunter Blair is a British television producer best known for creating the long-running children's TV programme "Blue Peter."
  • C. Zebulon Baird Vance
    Zebulon Baird Vance was a 19th-century American politician from North Carolina who served as a Confederate military officer, multiple-term governor of the state, and later as a U.S. senator.
  • D. James Hicks Stone
    James Hicks Stone was the brother of prominent American architect Edward Durell Stone and a member of the Stone family noted for its contributions to architecture and the arts.
  • E. George Washington Buckner
    George Washington Buckner was an African American physician, educator, and diplomat who served as U.S. Minister to Liberia in the early 20th century.
  • 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 Jefferson Byrd
Triple: [Clockers, starredActor, Thomas Jefferson Byrd]
Generated description
Thomas Jefferson Byrd was an American character actor best known for his powerful supporting roles in several Spike Lee films and other notable crime dramas.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Target entity description: Thomas Jefferson Byrd was an American character actor best known for his powerful supporting roles in several Spike Lee films and other notable crime dramas.
  • A. Thomas Beall Davis
    Thomas Beall Davis was an American businessman, railroad executive, and Democratic politician from West Virginia who served in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 20th century.
  • B. John Hunter Blair
    John Hunter Blair is a British television producer best known for creating the long-running children's TV programme "Blue Peter."
  • C. Zebulon Baird Vance
    Zebulon Baird Vance was a 19th-century American politician from North Carolina who served as a Confederate military officer, multiple-term governor of the state, and later as a U.S. senator.
  • D. James Hicks Stone
    James Hicks Stone was the brother of prominent American architect Edward Durell Stone and a member of the Stone family noted for its contributions to architecture and the arts.
  • E. George Washington Buckner
    George Washington Buckner was an African American physician, educator, and diplomat who served as U.S. Minister to Liberia in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69c68811dd1c8190ac460bb39e64e1f0 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ea0d9b6c8190a0b5f0ab8d5cca19 completed March 27, 2026, 8:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7cc22a39481909a2f38014260f302 completed March 28, 2026, 12:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7cd95c8c48190aa4c7d086f03bc0f completed March 28, 2026, 12:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7ce1b5e0081908d8e68fb1c0bfd3e completed March 28, 2026, 12:48 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:54 p.m.