Triple

T17728903
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tom Dula E442537 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Thomas
Thomas is the formal given name of Tom Dula, the 19th-century North Carolina man whose murder trial inspired the folk ballad "Tom Dooley."
E1283960 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 Dula, givenName, Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Context triple: [Tom Dula, givenName, Thomas]
  • A. Thomas
    Thomas is the birth name of American actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black, known for films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of Tenacious D.
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Sir Thomas Frankland, a titled member of the British Frankland family.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas E. Lovejoy, an influential American ecologist known for his pioneering work in biodiversity conservation.
  • 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 middle name of the individual Samuel Thomas Wilson.
  • 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 Dula, givenName, Thomas]
Generated description
Thomas is the formal given name of Tom Dula, the 19th-century North Carolina man whose murder trial inspired the folk ballad "Tom Dooley."
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 Dula, the 19th-century North Carolina man whose murder trial inspired the folk ballad "Tom Dooley."
  • A. Thomas
    Thomas is the given first name of American folk singer-songwriter Tom Paxton, known for his influential protest and contemporary folk songs.
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is the given first name of Boston Corbett, the Union Army soldier known for killing Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson, a prominent military leader during the American Civil War.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of British entertainer Tommy Steele, a pioneering rock and roll singer and actor.
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Paine, the influential 18th-century political philosopher and writer known for works like "Common Sense" and "The Rights of Man."
  • 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_69d8b9ec79688190b86bdcef85a7b3aa completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e478e4ae5c8190a6f0743f7e74b5bf completed April 19, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a023010f14c8190b0b3f82040d8d095 completed May 11, 2026, 7:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0233cbee0c81909270f49f059d198f completed May 11, 2026, 7:53 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a02344ccb108190b239ecc4d54be186 completed May 11, 2026, 7:55 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:08 a.m.