Triple

T15495049
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tom Ricketts E378795 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Thomas
Thomas is the formal given name of Tom Ricketts, the American businessman and chairman of the Chicago Cubs.
 E367721 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 | Statement: [Tom Ricketts, givenName, Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas
Context triple: [Tom Ricketts, givenName, Thomas]
  • A. Thomas
    Thomas is the full given name of Tom Brady, the legendary NFL quarterback widely regarded as one of the greatest players in American football history.
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is the formal given name of American politician Tom Daschle, who served as U.S. Senate Majority Leader.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Sir Stamford Raffles, the British statesman best known as the founder of modern Singapore.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford, a British naval officer and aristocrat known for his volatile temperament in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is the formal given name of the fictional crime boss Tommy Shelby from the television series "Peaky Blinders."
  • 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
Triple: [Tom Ricketts, givenName, Thomas]
Generated description
Thomas is the formal given name of Tom Ricketts, the American businessman and chairman of the Chicago Cubs.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas
Target entity description: Thomas is the formal given name of Tom Ricketts, the American businessman and chairman of the Chicago Cubs.
  • A. Thomas chosen
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas S. Ricketts, the American businessman and chairman of the Chicago Cubs.
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is the formal given name of Tom Yawkey, the longtime owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the formal given name of Tom Coughlin, the American football coach best known for leading the New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the formal given name of Tom Vilsack, an American politician who has served multiple terms as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is the full given name of Tom Thibodeau, an American professional basketball coach known for his defensive-minded teams in the NBA.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d85cd53a7c819080f5b9042c4c199e completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e03faecd60819091eeaa56c9c8f67d completed April 16, 2026, 1:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff3d4661088190bb53161247effcc4 completed May 9, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff3e5643088190a9b001ef815ddd3a completed May 9, 2026, 2:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff3f4456f88190b7fc9b853b0155e4 completed May 9, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:51 a.m.