Triple

T9996786
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tommy Chong E197221 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Thomas B. Kin Chong
Thomas B. Kin Chong, better known as Tommy Chong, is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, and musician famous for his cannabis-themed Cheech & Chong comedy duo and films.
E834607 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 B. Kin Chong | Statement: [Tommy Chong, birthName, Thomas B. Kin Chong]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas B. Kin Chong
Context triple: [Tommy Chong, birthName, Thomas B. Kin Chong]
  • A. John M. Y. Lee
    John M. Y. Lee is an American architect known for designing major civic and institutional buildings, including the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in Washington, D.C.
  • B. Charles C. Tan
    Charles C. Tan was a notable benefactor and alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley, for whom the university’s chemical engineering building, Tan Hall, is named.
  • C. Wittman Ah Sing
    Wittman Ah Sing is the Chinese American, Beat-influenced aspiring writer and performance artist who serves as the central, self-mythologizing figure in Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel *Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book*.
  • D. Ben Ngai-Cheung Lee
    Ben Ngai-Cheung Lee is a screenwriter known for his work in film and television, contributing to contemporary scripted storytelling.
  • E. Poy Gum Lee
    Poy Gum Lee was a Chinese-American architect known for blending modernist design with traditional Chinese elements in prominent early 20th-century projects in China and the United States.
  • 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 B. Kin Chong
Triple: [Tommy Chong, birthName, Thomas B. Kin Chong]
Generated description
Thomas B. Kin Chong, better known as Tommy Chong, is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, and musician famous for his cannabis-themed Cheech & Chong comedy duo and films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas B. Kin Chong
Target entity description: Thomas B. Kin Chong, better known as Tommy Chong, is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, and musician famous for his cannabis-themed Cheech & Chong comedy duo and films.
  • A. John M. Y. Lee
    John M. Y. Lee is an American architect known for designing major civic and institutional buildings, including the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in Washington, D.C.
  • B. Charles C. Tan
    Charles C. Tan was a notable benefactor and alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley, for whom the university’s chemical engineering building, Tan Hall, is named.
  • C. Wittman Ah Sing
    Wittman Ah Sing is the Chinese American, Beat-influenced aspiring writer and performance artist who serves as the central, self-mythologizing figure in Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel *Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book*.
  • D. Ben Ngai-Cheung Lee
    Ben Ngai-Cheung Lee is a screenwriter known for his work in film and television, contributing to contemporary scripted storytelling.
  • E. Poy Gum Lee
    Poy Gum Lee was a Chinese-American architect known for blending modernist design with traditional Chinese elements in prominent early 20th-century projects in China and the United States.
  • 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_69ca82f3b61c81908ecc2c1c96dbc2e4 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdcb9af6a88190942cc4991bd373c1 completed April 2, 2026, 1:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2583bd6948190b15a97187e81d958 completed April 5, 2026, 12:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2594b5e5081908f7cc4af4d10b4a8 completed April 5, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d25a30ad98819084dcd305e709c34d completed April 5, 2026, 12:48 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:51 p.m.