Triple

T1890769
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Knox E41868 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Thomas W. Knox
Thomas W. Knox was a 19th-century American journalist and author known for his Civil War reporting and popular travel and adventure books.
 E227625 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 W. Knox | Statement: [Knox, hasNotableBearer, Thomas W. Knox]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas W. Knox
Context triple: [Knox, hasNotableBearer, Thomas W. Knox]
  • A. Felix Grundy
    Felix Grundy was a prominent 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. congressman, senator, and Attorney General under President Martin Van Buren.
  • B. Henry J. Toombs
    Henry J. Toombs was an American architect known for designing projects associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
  • C. Holland M. Smith
    Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
  • D. John H. Bankhead
    John H. Bankhead was an American politician from Alabama who served as a U.S. Representative and Senator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. William Gibbons
    William Gibbons was an early 17th-century English navigator and explorer associated with Arctic and Northwest Passage voyages.
  • 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 W. Knox
Triple: [Knox, hasNotableBearer, Thomas W. Knox]
Generated description
Thomas W. Knox was a 19th-century American journalist and author known for his Civil War reporting and popular travel and adventure books.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas W. Knox
Target entity description: Thomas W. Knox was a 19th-century American journalist and author known for his Civil War reporting and popular travel and adventure books.
  • A. Felix Grundy
    Felix Grundy was a prominent 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. congressman, senator, and Attorney General under President Martin Van Buren.
  • B. Henry J. Toombs
    Henry J. Toombs was an American architect known for designing projects associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
  • C. Holland M. Smith
    Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
  • D. John H. Bankhead
    John H. Bankhead was an American politician from Alabama who served as a U.S. Representative and Senator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. William Gibbons
    William Gibbons was an early 17th-century English navigator and explorer associated with Arctic and Northwest Passage voyages.
  • 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_69a8864b6de0819098d089f6a1b910a7 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb14475448190b291ada3454bf98b completed March 7, 2026, 5:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae1fcb534881908415237d24b4d8b9 completed March 9, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae204fe6148190915219beb27128bc completed March 9, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae20d09c748190aebbfb88f0eedbaa completed March 9, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:34 p.m.