Triple

T16780992
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harold Finch E407855 entity
Predicate hasAlias P455 FINISHED
Object Harold Thompson
Harold Thompson is an alias used by Harold Finch, the reclusive billionaire software genius from the television series "Person of Interest."
 E1243841 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: Harold Thompson | Statement: [Harold Finch, hasAlias, Harold Thompson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Harold Thompson
Context triple: [Harold Finch, hasAlias, Harold Thompson]
  • A. Harold Thompson
    Harold Thompson was the husband of American film actress Rochelle Hudson, known primarily in relation to her personal life.
  • B. Harold Wenstrom
    Harold Wenstrom was an American cinematographer active during the early 20th century, known for his work on numerous silent and early sound films.
  • C. Harold McPherson
    Harold McPherson was the first husband of famed Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, with whom he shared early missionary work before their marriage ended.
  • D. Harold Stanley
    Harold Stanley was an American investment banker best known as a co-founder of the Wall Street firm Morgan Stanley.
  • E. Harold Shannon
    Harold Shannon was a Canadian sports executive known for being one of the owners involved with the Toronto Huskies professional basketball team in the 1940s.
  • 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: Harold Thompson
Triple: [Harold Finch, hasAlias, Harold Thompson]
Generated description
Harold Thompson is an alias used by Harold Finch, the reclusive billionaire software genius from the television series "Person of Interest."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Harold Thompson
Target entity description: Harold Thompson is an alias used by Harold Finch, the reclusive billionaire software genius from the television series "Person of Interest."
  • A. Harold Thompson
    Harold Thompson was the husband of American film actress Rochelle Hudson, known primarily in relation to her personal life.
  • B. Harold Wenstrom
    Harold Wenstrom was an American cinematographer active during the early 20th century, known for his work on numerous silent and early sound films.
  • C. Harold McPherson
    Harold McPherson was the first husband of famed Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, with whom he shared early missionary work before their marriage ended.
  • D. Harold Stanley
    Harold Stanley was an American investment banker best known as a co-founder of the Wall Street firm Morgan Stanley.
  • E. Harold Shannon
    Harold Shannon was a Canadian sports executive known for being one of the owners involved with the Toronto Huskies professional basketball team in the 1940s.
  • 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_69d8839270588190886720d9519bbf8f completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3b216726881908ddc9cdc772cd5e4 completed April 18, 2026, 4:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00dbf92b148190825778809bc4aac2 completed May 10, 2026, 7:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00dc96a9588190b020fd7fd1deee2b completed May 10, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0114e04e00819093805024f8417fad completed May 10, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:22 a.m.