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]
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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."
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.