Triple

T8135460
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Dall E189958 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object John Dall Thompson
John Dall Thompson, better known as John Dall, was an American actor noted for his roles in classic films such as "Rope" and "Gun Crazy."
E715664 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: John Dall Thompson | Statement: [John Dall, birthName, John Dall Thompson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Dall Thompson
Context triple: [John Dall, birthName, John Dall Thompson]
  • A. John Howard Stevens
    John Howard Stevens was an American architect who worked in partnership with his father John Calvin Stevens, contributing to early 20th-century architectural projects in Maine.
  • B. Herbert Jeffrey Hancock
    Herbert Jeffrey Hancock is an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his innovative contributions to post-bop, jazz fusion, and electronic music.
  • C. William Davis
    William Davis was a settler who is historically remembered as one of the notable victims killed during the 1862 Indian Creek massacre in Illinois.
  • D. William Davis
    William Davis was one of the African American defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial violence and self-defense.
  • E. David Hayes Agnew
    David Hayes Agnew was a prominent 19th-century American surgeon and medical educator renowned for his contributions to surgical practice and teaching at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • 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: John Dall Thompson
Triple: [John Dall, birthName, John Dall Thompson]
Generated description
John Dall Thompson, better known as John Dall, was an American actor noted for his roles in classic films such as "Rope" and "Gun Crazy."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Dall Thompson
Target entity description: John Dall Thompson, better known as John Dall, was an American actor noted for his roles in classic films such as "Rope" and "Gun Crazy."
  • A. John Howard Stevens
    John Howard Stevens was an American architect who worked in partnership with his father John Calvin Stevens, contributing to early 20th-century architectural projects in Maine.
  • B. Herbert Jeffrey Hancock
    Herbert Jeffrey Hancock is an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his innovative contributions to post-bop, jazz fusion, and electronic music.
  • C. William Davis
    William Davis was one of the African American defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial violence and self-defense.
  • D. William Davis
    William Davis was a settler who is historically remembered as one of the notable victims killed during the 1862 Indian Creek massacre in Illinois.
  • E. David Hayes Agnew
    David Hayes Agnew was a prominent 19th-century American surgeon and medical educator renowned for his contributions to surgical practice and teaching at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • 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_69ca82bcb4848190a9a9d036ad768642 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb43fff6e0819086c95b571272b50c completed March 31, 2026, 3:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ccbec8491c81908362d44c42fc8568 completed April 1, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ccc30f1fc48190991e0caa9ea6e735 completed April 1, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ccd7eca618819081e0c5452c8b1960 completed April 1, 2026, 8:31 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:35 p.m.