Triple

T10422608
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marshfield, Plymouth Colony E245694 entity
Predicate notableResident P1092 FINISHED
Object William Thomas
William Thomas was an early settler and prominent figure in the Plymouth Colony town of Marshfield in 17th-century New England.
 E862482 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 Thomas | Statement: [Marshfield, Plymouth Colony, notableResident, William Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Thomas
Context triple: [Marshfield, Plymouth Colony, notableResident, William Thomas]
  • A. William Thomas
    William Thomas was a prominent 19th-century architect known for his influential work on major public monuments and buildings in Canada.
  • B. John W. Thomas
    John W. Thomas was a prominent local figure and early railroad or civic leader after whom the city of Thomasville, North Carolina, was named.
  • C. William Edwards
    William Edwards is known primarily as the son of Austrian-American character actor Snitz Edwards, who appeared in numerous silent and early sound films.
  • D. William Edwards
    William Edwards was an 18th-century Welsh stonemason and bridge builder best known for his innovative arch bridges in South Wales.
  • E. John Thomas
    John Thomas is an American cinematographer best known for his work on the Sex and the City television series and its film adaptations.
  • 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 Thomas
Triple: [Marshfield, Plymouth Colony, notableResident, William Thomas]
Generated description
William Thomas was an early settler and prominent figure in the Plymouth Colony town of Marshfield in 17th-century New England.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Thomas
Target entity description: William Thomas was an early settler and prominent figure in the Plymouth Colony town of Marshfield in 17th-century New England.
  • A. William Thomas
    William Thomas was a prominent 19th-century architect known for his influential work on major public monuments and buildings in Canada.
  • B. John W. Thomas
    John W. Thomas was a prominent local figure and early railroad or civic leader after whom the city of Thomasville, North Carolina, was named.
  • C. William Edwards
    William Edwards is known primarily as the son of Austrian-American character actor Snitz Edwards, who appeared in numerous silent and early sound films.
  • D. William Edwards
    William Edwards was an 18th-century Welsh stonemason and bridge builder best known for his innovative arch bridges in South Wales.
  • E. John Thomas
    John Thomas is an American cinematographer best known for his work on the Sex and the City television series and its film adaptations.
  • 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_69d381bf3dc08190bf35a2643e4e8f22 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4ea2cd0788190b904ccdc251a9b7a completed April 7, 2026, 11:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d7fc2160208190b6384190d9537df4 completed April 9, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d822d76f3481909f7c04be19414b14 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d859fd8f0c8190b0fec880e1180e50 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:12 p.m.