Triple

T10608933
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Rivers E275953 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object Thomas Milton Rivers
Thomas Milton Rivers was an influential American virologist who helped establish virology as a distinct scientific discipline in the early 20th century.
E879908 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 Milton Rivers | Statement: [Thomas Rivers, name, Thomas Milton Rivers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Milton Rivers
Context triple: [Thomas Rivers, name, Thomas Milton Rivers]
  • A. Thomas Rivers
    Thomas Rivers was a pioneering 19th-century English nurseryman and horticulturist renowned for developing and popularizing many new fruit tree varieties.
  • B. George Francis Willis
    George Francis Willis was an American real estate developer and entrepreneur best known for designing and establishing the planned community of Avondale Estates, Georgia, in the early 20th century.
  • C. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • D. William Nathan Boyd
    William Nathan Boyd is a Scottish actor and musician best known for playing the hobbit Peregrin "Pippin" Took in the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.
  • E. William Gemmell Cochran
    William Gemmell Cochran was a prominent Scottish statistician known for his foundational contributions to experimental design, sampling techniques, and the development of modern statistical theory.
  • 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 Milton Rivers
Triple: [Thomas Rivers, name, Thomas Milton Rivers]
Generated description
Thomas Milton Rivers was an influential American virologist who helped establish virology as a distinct scientific discipline in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Milton Rivers
Target entity description: Thomas Milton Rivers was an influential American virologist who helped establish virology as a distinct scientific discipline in the early 20th century.
  • A. Thomas Rivers
    Thomas Rivers was a pioneering 19th-century English nurseryman and horticulturist renowned for developing and popularizing many new fruit tree varieties.
  • B. George Francis Willis
    George Francis Willis was an American real estate developer and entrepreneur best known for designing and establishing the planned community of Avondale Estates, Georgia, in the early 20th century.
  • C. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • D. William Nathan Boyd
    William Nathan Boyd is a Scottish actor and musician best known for playing the hobbit Peregrin "Pippin" Took in the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.
  • E. William Gemmell Cochran
    William Gemmell Cochran was a prominent Scottish statistician known for his foundational contributions to experimental design, sampling techniques, and the development of modern statistical theory.
  • 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_69d6aaf948d88190806cc3a8c47a3fb2 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d6df4d0a6881909fea20378085173d completed April 8, 2026, 11:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d9989a7aec8190bcf06a93da61647d completed April 11, 2026, 12:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d99e8312188190bec3090f34a7b9b9 completed April 11, 2026, 1:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d99f50e0888190b8e7b2547e1526af completed April 11, 2026, 1:09 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 7:32 p.m.