Triple

T7427066
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cahill E171394 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Thomas Cahill
Thomas Cahill was an American scholar and popular historian best known for his "Hinges of History" book series, including the bestseller "How the Irish Saved Civilization."
E663615 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 Cahill | Statement: [Cahill, hasNotableBearer, Thomas Cahill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Cahill
Context triple: [Cahill, hasNotableBearer, Thomas Cahill]
  • A. Daniel Boorstin
    Daniel Boorstin was an influential American historian, professor, and Librarian of Congress known for his wide-ranging works on American history and culture, including "The Americans" trilogy.
  • B. Jeremy Iggers
    Jeremy Iggers is an American journalist and food critic known for his work at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis and his influential writing on ethics in restaurant reviewing.
  • C. John Guy
    John Guy is a British historian and biographer best known for his acclaimed works on Tudor history, including a major biography of Mary, Queen of Scots.
  • D. Martin Coogan
    Martin Coogan is a British musician and radio presenter, best known as the former lead singer of the indie rock band The Mock Turtles and as the brother of comedian Steve Coogan.
  • E. Louis Menand
    Louis Menand is an American critic, essayist, and Harvard professor best known for his work on American intellectual and cultural history, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning book "The Metaphysical Club."
  • 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 Cahill
Triple: [Cahill, hasNotableBearer, Thomas Cahill]
Generated description
Thomas Cahill was an American scholar and popular historian best known for his "Hinges of History" book series, including the bestseller "How the Irish Saved Civilization."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Cahill
Target entity description: Thomas Cahill was an American scholar and popular historian best known for his "Hinges of History" book series, including the bestseller "How the Irish Saved Civilization."
  • A. Daniel Boorstin
    Daniel Boorstin was an influential American historian, professor, and Librarian of Congress known for his wide-ranging works on American history and culture, including "The Americans" trilogy.
  • B. Jeremy Iggers
    Jeremy Iggers is an American journalist and food critic known for his work at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis and his influential writing on ethics in restaurant reviewing.
  • C. John Guy
    John Guy is a British historian and biographer best known for his acclaimed works on Tudor history, including a major biography of Mary, Queen of Scots.
  • D. Martin Coogan
    Martin Coogan is a British musician and radio presenter, best known as the former lead singer of the indie rock band The Mock Turtles and as the brother of comedian Steve Coogan.
  • E. Louis Menand
    Louis Menand is an American critic, essayist, and Harvard professor best known for his work on American intellectual and cultural history, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning book "The Metaphysical Club."
  • 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_69c68a63491881909281f73d4d5643bf completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f3055b7881908269ab909c5a85b5 completed March 27, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c81f0e28e88190805108dff740dda3 completed March 28, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8200c52c8819083b14e8d768fc9be completed March 28, 2026, 6:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c82084879c8190ae60b99f702dc058 completed March 28, 2026, 6:40 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:12 p.m.