Triple

T172398
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Discovery (Henry Hudson's ship) E3503 entity
Predicate voyageLeader P884 FINISHED
Object Thomas James
Thomas James was a 17th-century Welsh explorer and navigator best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
E42869 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 James | Statement: [Discovery (Henry Hudson's ship), voyageLeader, Thomas James]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas James
Context triple: [Discovery (Henry Hudson's ship), voyageLeader, Thomas James]
  • A. William Kirk
    William Kirk is a relatively common personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields, rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
  • B. Julius Lankershim
    Julius Lankershim was a prominent 19th-century Los Angeles landowner and developer whose holdings and influence helped shape early Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Malthus, the influential English economist and demographer known for his theories on population growth and resource limits.
  • D. 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.
  • E. James McGill
    James McGill was an 18th–19th century Scottish-Canadian merchant and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of McGill University in Montreal.
  • 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 James
Triple: [Discovery (Henry Hudson's ship), voyageLeader, Thomas James]
Generated description
Thomas James was a 17th-century Welsh explorer and navigator best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas James
Target entity description: Thomas James was a 17th-century Welsh explorer and navigator best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • A. William Kirk
    William Kirk is a relatively common personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields, rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
  • B. Julius Lankershim
    Julius Lankershim was a prominent 19th-century Los Angeles landowner and developer whose holdings and influence helped shape early Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Malthus, the influential English economist and demographer known for his theories on population growth and resource limits.
  • D. 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.
  • E. James McGill
    James McGill was an 18th–19th century Scottish-Canadian merchant and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of McGill University in Montreal.
  • 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_69a25374990081909766d30c79a18e0e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25bafd5808190a0a0cb2b21ce007f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3d23c0fd4819092dea53bc8d990ad completed March 1, 2026, 5:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3d2afcea48190aa767b5dd077f02c completed March 1, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3d38f00288190bc43e5de028deed6 completed March 1, 2026, 5:50 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:39 a.m.