Triple

T16745109
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rik Van Looy E406931 entity
Predicate notableRival P893 FINISHED
Object Tom Simpson
Tom Simpson was a prominent British professional road cyclist of the 1960s, known for his classic race victories and tragic death during the 1967 Tour de France.
 E1232766 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: Tom Simpson | Statement: [Rik Van Looy, notableRival, Tom Simpson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tom Simpson
Context triple: [Rik Van Looy, notableRival, Tom Simpson]
  • A. Tom Simpson
    Tom Simpson is a British musician best known as the former keyboardist of the alternative rock band Snow Patrol.
  • B. Tom Simpson
    Tom Simpson is a film editor known for his work on the 1962 political thriller "Guns of Darkness."
  • C. Eugene De Rosa
    Eugene De Rosa was an American architect best known for designing prominent early 20th-century theaters and movie palaces in New York City.
  • D. Felice Gimondi
    Felice Gimondi was an Italian professional cyclist and one of the few riders in history to win all three Grand Tours—Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, and Vuelta a España.
  • E. Greg LeMond
    Greg LeMond is an American former professional cyclist renowned for winning the Tour de France three times and for pioneering the use of advanced technology and aerodynamics in the sport.
  • 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: Tom Simpson
Triple: [Rik Van Looy, notableRival, Tom Simpson]
Generated description
Tom Simpson was a prominent British professional road cyclist of the 1960s, known for his classic race victories and tragic death during the 1967 Tour de France.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tom Simpson
Target entity description: Tom Simpson was a prominent British professional road cyclist of the 1960s, known for his classic race victories and tragic death during the 1967 Tour de France.
  • A. Tom Simpson
    Tom Simpson is a British musician best known as the former keyboardist of the alternative rock band Snow Patrol.
  • B. Tom Simpson
    Tom Simpson is a film editor known for his work on the 1962 political thriller "Guns of Darkness."
  • C. Eugene De Rosa
    Eugene De Rosa was an American architect best known for designing prominent early 20th-century theaters and movie palaces in New York City.
  • D. Felice Gimondi
    Felice Gimondi was an Italian professional cyclist and one of the few riders in history to win all three Grand Tours—Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, and Vuelta a España.
  • E. Greg LeMond
    Greg LeMond is an American former professional cyclist renowned for winning the Tour de France three times and for pioneering the use of advanced technology and aerodynamics in the sport.
  • 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_69d8838ffb088190a0b11149929006bf completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3aa223aa88190a3c1805ece7317e2 completed April 18, 2026, 3:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00a51e69c08190a5bff74823df430c completed May 10, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00a782502c819086c07dbcfc1b46eb completed May 10, 2026, 3:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00a7e3725c81909afbf1abb4eb317b completed May 10, 2026, 3:44 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:21 a.m.