Triple

T20150145
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Spy magazine E491413 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Thomas Phillips
Thomas Phillips is an American magazine editor and publisher best known as a co-founder of the satirical and investigative publication Spy magazine.
 E1415203 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 Phillips | Statement: [Spy magazine, foundedBy, Thomas Phillips]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Phillips
Context triple: [Spy magazine, foundedBy, Thomas Phillips]
  • A. Thomas James
    Thomas James was the husband of the famed 19th-century Irish-born dancer and courtesan Lola Montez.
  • B. Thomas James
    Thomas James was a 17th-century Welsh explorer and navigator best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • C. John James
    John James is an American actor best known for his role as Jeff Colby on the 1980s prime-time soap opera Dynasty and its spin-off The Colbys.
  • D. John James
    John James was an early 18th-century English architect known for designing several notable London churches in the Baroque and Palladian styles.
  • E. William Owen Smith
    William Owen Smith was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii who played a key role in the islands’ political transformation and legal affairs.
  • 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 Phillips
Triple: [Spy magazine, foundedBy, Thomas Phillips]
Generated description
Thomas Phillips is an American magazine editor and publisher best known as a co-founder of the satirical and investigative publication Spy magazine.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Phillips
Target entity description: Thomas Phillips is an American magazine editor and publisher best known as a co-founder of the satirical and investigative publication Spy magazine.
  • A. Thomas James
    Thomas James was the husband of the famed 19th-century Irish-born dancer and courtesan Lola Montez.
  • B. Thomas James
    Thomas James was a 17th-century Welsh explorer and navigator best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • C. John James
    John James is an American actor best known for his role as Jeff Colby on the 1980s prime-time soap opera Dynasty and its spin-off The Colbys.
  • D. John James
    John James was an early 18th-century English architect known for designing several notable London churches in the Baroque and Palladian styles.
  • E. William Owen Smith
    William Owen Smith was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii who played a key role in the islands’ political transformation and legal affairs.
  • 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_69da6265f8f0819080b29c752a574088 completed April 11, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e667a1c5848190975b17ab07251f8b completed April 20, 2026, 5:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08346f7b708190b006704558b25a67 completed May 16, 2026, 9:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08357acba08190be9fcedf1ea0f19d completed May 16, 2026, 9:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0836a5cfdc81908806d83acd257acd completed May 16, 2026, 9:19 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:33 p.m.