Triple

T12420384
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sybil Thorndike E296751 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object Russell Thorndike
Russell Thorndike was an English actor and novelist best known for creating the popular "Doctor Syn" series of historical adventure novels.
E980400 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: Russell Thorndike | Statement: [Sybil Thorndike, sibling, Russell Thorndike]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Russell Thorndike
Context triple: [Sybil Thorndike, sibling, Russell Thorndike]
  • A. Israel Thorndike
    Israel Thorndike was an influential early American merchant, financier, and politician who played a major role in New England’s commercial and industrial development.
  • B. Frederick B. Bartlett
    Frederick B. Bartlett is a Christian cleric who served as a bishop in the Episcopal Church, overseeing the Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota.
  • C. Charles Gabriel Seligman
    Charles Gabriel Seligman was a British physician-turned-anthropologist known for his influential early fieldwork in Africa and the Pacific and for helping establish social anthropology as an academic discipline in the early 20th century.
  • D. Edward L. Thorndike
    Edward L. Thorndike was an American psychologist and pioneer in educational psychology and learning theory, best known for his work on animal intelligence and the formulation of the law of effect.
  • E. Hugo Münsterberg
    Hugo Münsterberg was a pioneering German-American psychologist known for his influential work in applied psychology, including industrial, clinical, and forensic psychology.
  • 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: Russell Thorndike
Triple: [Sybil Thorndike, sibling, Russell Thorndike]
Generated description
Russell Thorndike was an English actor and novelist best known for creating the popular "Doctor Syn" series of historical adventure novels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Russell Thorndike
Target entity description: Russell Thorndike was an English actor and novelist best known for creating the popular "Doctor Syn" series of historical adventure novels.
  • A. Israel Thorndike
    Israel Thorndike was an influential early American merchant, financier, and politician who played a major role in New England’s commercial and industrial development.
  • B. Frederick B. Bartlett
    Frederick B. Bartlett is a Christian cleric who served as a bishop in the Episcopal Church, overseeing the Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota.
  • C. Charles Gabriel Seligman
    Charles Gabriel Seligman was a British physician-turned-anthropologist known for his influential early fieldwork in Africa and the Pacific and for helping establish social anthropology as an academic discipline in the early 20th century.
  • D. Edward L. Thorndike
    Edward L. Thorndike was an American psychologist and pioneer in educational psychology and learning theory, best known for his work on animal intelligence and the formulation of the law of effect.
  • E. Hugo Münsterberg
    Hugo Münsterberg was a pioneering German-American psychologist known for his influential work in applied psychology, including industrial, clinical, and forensic psychology.
  • 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_69d6ada0640c81908c061d7fb3d47786 completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94d6efd748190a5d9396a343e41e1 completed April 10, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f634933b9881909fd592ede7c3e49c completed May 2, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6356c21908190b34d1324da8f8052 completed May 2, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f63693f5c881909a9683a0c6a68739 completed May 2, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:55 p.m.