Triple

T7749360
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brock's Monument E175714 entity
Predicate architect P184 FINISHED
Object William Thomas
William Thomas was a prominent 19th-century architect known for his influential work on major public monuments and buildings in Canada.
E686313 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 Thomas | Statement: [Brock's Monument, architect, William Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thomas
Context triple: [Brock's Monument, architect, William Thomas]
  • A. John W. Thomas
    John W. Thomas was a prominent local figure and early railroad or civic leader after whom the city of Thomasville, North Carolina, was named.
  • B. William Edwards
    William Edwards is known primarily as the son of Austrian-American character actor Snitz Edwards, who appeared in numerous silent and early sound films.
  • C. William Edwards
    William Edwards was an 18th-century Welsh stonemason and bridge builder best known for his innovative arch bridges in South Wales.
  • D. John Thomas
    John Thomas is an American cinematographer best known for his work on the Sex and the City television series and its film adaptations.
  • E. John Thomas
    John Thomas is an author known for writing about the Predator franchise.
  • 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 Thomas
Triple: [Brock's Monument, architect, William Thomas]
Generated description
William Thomas was a prominent 19th-century architect known for his influential work on major public monuments and buildings in Canada.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thomas
Target entity description: William Thomas was a prominent 19th-century architect known for his influential work on major public monuments and buildings in Canada.
  • A. John W. Thomas
    John W. Thomas was a prominent local figure and early railroad or civic leader after whom the city of Thomasville, North Carolina, was named.
  • B. William Edwards
    William Edwards was an 18th-century Welsh stonemason and bridge builder best known for his innovative arch bridges in South Wales.
  • C. William Edwards
    William Edwards is known primarily as the son of Austrian-American character actor Snitz Edwards, who appeared in numerous silent and early sound films.
  • D. John Thomas
    John Thomas is an American cinematographer best known for his work on the Sex and the City television series and its film adaptations.
  • E. John Thomas
    John Thomas is an author known for writing about the Predator franchise.
  • 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_69c69960b3588190a53aa590d31d9544 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c703b13af08190b110104fe96ef91e completed March 27, 2026, 10:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8be53b3788190a850ce1aaaac3aaa completed March 29, 2026, 5:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8c235b1748190b6c17c5975e2eb9b completed March 29, 2026, 6:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8c2f1dd508190853065d9e4e331b2 completed March 29, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:08 p.m.