Triple

T1636899
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Back to the Future E35377 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Thomas F. Wilson
Thomas F. Wilson is an American actor and comedian best known for playing bully Biff Tannen and his relatives across the Back to the Future film trilogy.
E377107 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 F. Wilson | Statement: [Back to the Future, starring, Thomas F. Wilson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas F. Wilson
Context triple: [Back to the Future, starring, Thomas F. Wilson]
  • A. Louis D. Wilson
    Louis D. Wilson was a 19th-century North Carolina politician and military officer after whom the city of Wilson, North Carolina, is named.
  • B. John A. Wilson
    John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
  • C. Dwight W. Morrow
    Dwight W. Morrow was an American lawyer, banker, and diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and later as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
  • D. William C. Foster
    William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Henry Maitland Wilson
    Henry Maitland Wilson was a senior British Army officer and field commander in both World Wars, best known for leading Allied forces in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres.
  • 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 F. Wilson
Triple: [Back to the Future, starring, Thomas F. Wilson]
Generated description
Thomas F. Wilson is an American actor and comedian best known for playing bully Biff Tannen and his relatives across the Back to the Future film trilogy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas F. Wilson
Target entity description: Thomas F. Wilson is an American actor and comedian best known for playing bully Biff Tannen and his relatives across the Back to the Future film trilogy.
  • A. Louis D. Wilson
    Louis D. Wilson was a 19th-century North Carolina politician and military officer after whom the city of Wilson, North Carolina, is named.
  • B. John A. Wilson
    John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
  • C. Dwight W. Morrow
    Dwight W. Morrow was an American lawyer, banker, and diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and later as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
  • D. William C. Foster
    William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Henry Maitland Wilson
    Henry Maitland Wilson was a senior British Army officer and field commander in both World Wars, best known for leading Allied forces in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres.
  • 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_69a886036bc081909ff5de16dbe5e8ea completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90a192d588190bbfa4693ed787c05 completed March 5, 2026, 4:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4880c8d4c819083a0f49598dbb2d2 completed March 13, 2026, 9:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b48bb81ee88190a285c847c85768dd completed March 13, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4a42c67848190956660cd64e5b8e0 completed March 13, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:28 p.m.