Triple

T12764231
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Plymouth Whalers E305076 entity
Predicate notableAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object Chris Thorburn
Chris Thorburn is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played over 800 NHL games, known for his physical style and role as an enforcer with teams like the Buffalo Sabres, Atlanta Thrashers/Winnipeg Jets, and St. Louis Blues.
E1003278 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: Chris Thorburn | Statement: [Plymouth Whalers, notableAlumni, Chris Thorburn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chris Thorburn
Context triple: [Plymouth Whalers, notableAlumni, Chris Thorburn]
  • A. Billy Maharg
    Billy Maharg was an American gambler and former baseball player best known for his role as a go-between in the 1919 Black Sox World Series fixing scandal.
  • B. Marcus Skidmore
    Marcus Skidmore is the naive, kind-hearted boy in the dark comedy film "Bad Santa" whose innocence contrasts sharply with the movie’s crude adult characters.
  • C. Ronald Drever
    Ronald Drever was a Scottish experimental physicist best known as a co-founder of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and a pioneer in the detection of gravitational waves.
  • D. Danny Thompson
    Danny Thompson is a renowned English double bassist best known for his work in folk and jazz, including his long-running collaboration with singer-songwriter John Martyn and membership in the folk-jazz group Pentangle.
  • E. Phil Judd
    Phil Judd is a New Zealand musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of Split Enz and later the new wave band The Swingers.
  • 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: Chris Thorburn
Triple: [Plymouth Whalers, notableAlumni, Chris Thorburn]
Generated description
Chris Thorburn is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played over 800 NHL games, known for his physical style and role as an enforcer with teams like the Buffalo Sabres, Atlanta Thrashers/Winnipeg Jets, and St. Louis Blues.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chris Thorburn
Target entity description: Chris Thorburn is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played over 800 NHL games, known for his physical style and role as an enforcer with teams like the Buffalo Sabres, Atlanta Thrashers/Winnipeg Jets, and St. Louis Blues.
  • A. Billy Maharg
    Billy Maharg was an American gambler and former baseball player best known for his role as a go-between in the 1919 Black Sox World Series fixing scandal.
  • B. Marcus Skidmore
    Marcus Skidmore is the naive, kind-hearted boy in the dark comedy film "Bad Santa" whose innocence contrasts sharply with the movie’s crude adult characters.
  • C. Kevin Downes
    Kevin Downes is an American Christian film producer, actor, and filmmaker known for his work on faith-based movies such as "Courageous" and "I Still Believe."
  • D. Ronald Drever
    Ronald Drever was a Scottish experimental physicist best known as a co-founder of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and a pioneer in the detection of gravitational waves.
  • E. Danny Thompson
    Danny Thompson is a renowned English double bassist best known for his work in folk and jazz, including his long-running collaboration with singer-songwriter John Martyn and membership in the folk-jazz group Pentangle.
  • 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_69d7bdf1fcd081909ffb0e0d6fa3a07d completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96d8f9f588190bffdea878856204b completed April 10, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f684f298f881908ad77f2d0ab588a8 completed May 2, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f685dc63f48190bb68f9859e99e3b4 completed May 2, 2026, 11:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f68a92226881909600555332c2c370 completed May 2, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:28 p.m.