Triple

T9237308
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Time Jumpers E221969 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object Billy Thomas
Billy Thomas is an American musician best known as a drummer and vocalist in the Nashville-based Western swing band The Time Jumpers.
 E787082 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: Billy Thomas | Statement: [The Time Jumpers, notableMember, Billy Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Billy Thomas
Context triple: [The Time Jumpers, notableMember, Billy Thomas]
  • A. Billy Thomas
    Billy Thomas is an American stock car racing driver best known for his involvement with the famed Alabama Gang of NASCAR competitors.
  • B. Billy Thomas
    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.
  • C. 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."
  • D. Tony Thomas
    Tony Thomas is an Indian entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the software company Zoho Corporation.
  • E. Bob Thomas
    Bob Thomas is an artist best known for designing the Grateful Dead’s iconic “dancing bears” imagery.
  • 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: Billy Thomas
Triple: [The Time Jumpers, notableMember, Billy Thomas]
Generated description
Billy Thomas is an American musician best known as a drummer and vocalist in the Nashville-based Western swing band The Time Jumpers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Billy Thomas
Target entity description: Billy Thomas is an American musician best known as a drummer and vocalist in the Nashville-based Western swing band The Time Jumpers.
  • A. Billy Thomas
    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.
  • 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.
  • C. 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."
  • D. Tony Thomas
    Tony Thomas is an Indian entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the software company Zoho Corporation.
  • E. Bob Thomas
    Bob Thomas is an artist best known for designing the Grateful Dead’s iconic “dancing bears” imagery.
  • 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_69ca83ed628c8190bc02d641e57f097f completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ccf09e553081909cf864635cfc5dcc completed April 1, 2026, 10:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d077d4c4a881909c80176ddf5101a4 completed April 4, 2026, 2:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d07da85c748190ab7096ce3d3d2319 completed April 4, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d07e52c0788190a5009a7fe649a6c7 completed April 4, 2026, 2:58 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:29 p.m.