Triple

T10218340
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tom McHale E242505 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object Tom McHale
Tom McHale is a name shared by multiple individuals, including an American football player and an author, making it ambiguous without additional context.
E874968 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: Tom McHale | Statement: [Tom McHale, name, Tom McHale]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom McHale
Context triple: [Tom McHale, name, Tom McHale]
  • A. Donald Malarkey
    Donald Malarkey was a real-life U.S. Army paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was famously depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • B. Tony McAnaney
    Tony McAnaney is a British musician and composer best known for his work on television, particularly his music for the comedy-drama series "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet."
  • C. Jack McHale
    Jack McHale is a relatively obscure individual known primarily as a namesake referenced in records of notable bearers of the surname McHale.
  • D. Bobby McDermott
    Bobby McDermott was an American professional basketball guard widely regarded as one of the greatest players of the pre-NBA era, known for his prolific scoring and multiple championships in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • E. Bill McBride
    Bill McBride was a Florida lawyer and Democratic politician best known for being the party’s nominee for governor in the 2002 Florida gubernatorial election against incumbent Jeb Bush.
  • 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: Tom McHale
Triple: [Tom McHale, name, Tom McHale]
Generated description
Tom McHale is a name shared by multiple individuals, including an American football player and an author, making it ambiguous without additional context.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom McHale
Target entity description: Tom McHale is a name shared by multiple individuals, including an American football player and an author, making it ambiguous without additional context.
  • A. Donald Malarkey
    Donald Malarkey was a real-life U.S. Army paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was famously depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • B. Tony McAnaney
    Tony McAnaney is a British musician and composer best known for his work on television, particularly his music for the comedy-drama series "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet."
  • C. Jack McHale
    Jack McHale is a relatively obscure individual known primarily as a namesake referenced in records of notable bearers of the surname McHale.
  • D. Bobby McDermott
    Bobby McDermott was an American professional basketball guard widely regarded as one of the greatest players of the pre-NBA era, known for his prolific scoring and multiple championships in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • E. Bill McBride
    Bill McBride was a Florida lawyer and Democratic politician best known for being the party’s nominee for governor in the 2002 Florida gubernatorial election against incumbent Jeb Bush.
  • 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_69d381ae26c48190985abd0e25ee5d04 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d3aa6fcf6c81908a589585bbd48ab8 completed April 6, 2026, 12:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d96b0e4eac8190af28db3d334852cb completed April 10, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d96d85f9648190a43c8c924f5139e3 completed April 10, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d96e1a36688190b97ced745bc6a30d completed April 10, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:07 a.m.