Triple
T8513512
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Gil Bellows |
E201513
|
entity |
| Predicate | playedCharacter |
P1507
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Billy Thomas |
E349932
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Billy Thomas | Statement: [Gil Bellows, playedCharacter, Billy Thomas]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billy Thomas Context triple: [Gil Bellows, playedCharacter, Billy Thomas]
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A.
Billy Thomas
chosen
Billy Thomas is a central character on the television series "Ally McBeal," known as Ally's former childhood sweetheart and colleague whose complicated relationship with her drives much of the show's emotional drama.
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B.
Billy Thomas
Billy Thomas is an American stock car racing driver best known for his involvement with the famed Alabama Gang of NASCAR competitors.
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C.
Tony Thomas
Tony Thomas is an Indian entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the software company Zoho Corporation.
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D.
Tony Thomas
Tony Thomas is an American television and film producer best known for co-founding Witt/Thomas Productions and producing popular sitcoms such as "The Golden Girls."
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E.
Bob Thomas
Bob Thomas is an artist best known for designing the Grateful Dead’s iconic “dancing bears” imagery.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca8320e5748190ac2c585a0bba8193 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cbe60cdfcc819081a9be1229378ba0 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 3:19 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cebb6855ec8190a85e5afeb656ee7d |
completed | April 2, 2026, 6:54 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:15 p.m.