Triple

T8731929
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Howell E207275 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Thomas Howell
Thomas Howell is a relatively common personal name that may refer to various individuals across different fields, such as politics, academia, or the arts.
E763968 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 Howell | Statement: [Howell, hasNotableBearer, Thomas Howell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Howell
Context triple: [Howell, hasNotableBearer, Thomas Howell]
  • A. James Howell
    James Howell was a 17th-century Welsh writer and historian best known for his epistolary work "Familiar Letters" and for serving as historiographer royal to King Charles I of England.
  • B. Thomas Holbrook
    Thomas Holbrook is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with several public figures, including politicians and academics, making precise identification dependent on additional context.
  • C. Brutus Howell
    Brutus Howell is a senior prison guard and close colleague of Paul Edgecombe in Stephen King’s novel "The Green Mile," known for his fairness and compassion toward death row inmates.
  • D. George Horton
    George Horton was an English painter associated with the late 19th- and early 20th-century Cullercoats artist colony, known for his coastal and maritime scenes.
  • E. Samuel Ellis
    Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
  • 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 Howell
Triple: [Howell, hasNotableBearer, Thomas Howell]
Generated description
Thomas Howell is a relatively common personal name that may refer to various individuals across different fields, such as politics, academia, or the arts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Howell
Target entity description: Thomas Howell is a relatively common personal name that may refer to various individuals across different fields, such as politics, academia, or the arts.
  • A. James Howell
    James Howell was a 17th-century Welsh writer and historian best known for his epistolary work "Familiar Letters" and for serving as historiographer royal to King Charles I of England.
  • B. Thomas Holbrook
    Thomas Holbrook is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with several public figures, including politicians and academics, making precise identification dependent on additional context.
  • C. Brutus Howell
    Brutus Howell is a senior prison guard and close colleague of Paul Edgecombe in Stephen King’s novel "The Green Mile," known for his fairness and compassion toward death row inmates.
  • D. George Horton
    George Horton was an English painter associated with the late 19th- and early 20th-century Cullercoats artist colony, known for his coastal and maritime scenes.
  • E. Samuel Ellis
    Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
  • 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_69ca8358e4008190898471a59b96c301 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5d27efb88190b42d5bc9774d9c63 completed March 31, 2026, 11:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfab4d5a2c81909494c119e1d80b4b completed April 3, 2026, 11:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfac76d0f8819090c2bff520db52f4 completed April 3, 2026, 12:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfad04e514819084bf30b8f026c031 completed April 3, 2026, 12:05 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:37 p.m.