Triple

T9927706
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Oxley E187963 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William Oxley Thompson
William Oxley Thompson was a prominent American academic and long-serving president of The Ohio State University in the early 20th century.
 E829167 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 Oxley Thompson | Statement: [Oxley, hasNotableBearer, William Oxley Thompson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Oxley Thompson
Context triple: [Oxley, hasNotableBearer, William Oxley Thompson]
  • A. Stanley G. Thompson
    Stanley G. Thompson was an American chemist best known for co-discovering several transuranium elements, including berkelium and californium, during his work on nuclear chemistry.
  • B. John Bruce Glasier
    John Bruce Glasier was a prominent Scottish socialist politician, writer, and leader in the early British labour movement.
  • C. Joseph Gardner Brown
    Joseph Gardner Brown is the real-life individual whose experiences and persona inspired the fictional character Joe Brown.
  • D. Donald Bain
    Donald Bain was an American author best known for writing numerous tie-in and mystery novels, including many books in the "Murder, She Wrote" series.
  • E. Walter Leighton Clark
    Walter Leighton Clark was an American artist, businessman, and arts patron best known for co-founding influential art institutions in early 20th-century New York City.
  • 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 Oxley Thompson
Triple: [Oxley, hasNotableBearer, William Oxley Thompson]
Generated description
William Oxley Thompson was a prominent American academic and long-serving president of The Ohio State University in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Oxley Thompson
Target entity description: William Oxley Thompson was a prominent American academic and long-serving president of The Ohio State University in the early 20th century.
  • A. Stanley G. Thompson
    Stanley G. Thompson was an American chemist best known for co-discovering several transuranium elements, including berkelium and californium, during his work on nuclear chemistry.
  • B. John Bruce Glasier
    John Bruce Glasier was a prominent Scottish socialist politician, writer, and leader in the early British labour movement.
  • C. Joseph Gardner Brown
    Joseph Gardner Brown is the real-life individual whose experiences and persona inspired the fictional character Joe Brown.
  • D. Donald Bain
    Donald Bain was an American author best known for writing numerous tie-in and mystery novels, including many books in the "Murder, She Wrote" series.
  • E. Walter Leighton Clark
    Walter Leighton Clark was an American artist, businessman, and arts patron best known for co-founding influential art institutions in early 20th-century New York City.
  • 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_69ca82b22a688190b52c75bd48429c10 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb59d7ad08190982a1584547190bd completed April 2, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d20e1eace88190a591cbab02153869 completed April 5, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d20ed2dea481909fd9a9dddac3daf1 completed April 5, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d20fef723881909d8d57548461926f completed April 5, 2026, 7:31 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:43 p.m.