Triple

T21961512
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tommy Rall E542341 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Thomas Edward Rall
Thomas Edward Rall, better known as Tommy Rall, was an American dancer and actor celebrated for his athletic, acrobatic performances in classic Hollywood musicals of the 1940s and 1950s.
E1510284 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 Edward Rall | Statement: [Tommy Rall, birthName, Thomas Edward Rall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Edward Rall
Context triple: [Tommy Rall, birthName, Thomas Edward Rall]
  • A. Douglas Howser
    Douglas "Doogie" Howser is a teenage prodigy who works as a licensed physician while navigating the challenges of adolescence in the TV series "Doogie Howser, M.D."
  • B. Ron Duguay
    Ron Duguay is a former Canadian professional ice hockey forward best known for his NHL career with the New York Rangers and his distinctive long-haired look in the late 1970s and 1980s.
  • C. Wesley Kilmer
    Wesley Kilmer is a sibling of American actor Val Kilmer, known primarily in relation to his more famous brother.
  • D. James Harrod
    James Harrod was an American pioneer and early settler credited with founding Harrodsburg, the first permanent English settlement in Kentucky.
  • E. Anthony McHenry
    Anthony McHenry is an American professional basketball player best known for his long, successful career in Japan’s B.League, particularly as a key contributor to the Ryukyu Golden Kings.
  • 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 Edward Rall
Triple: [Tommy Rall, birthName, Thomas Edward Rall]
Generated description
Thomas Edward Rall, better known as Tommy Rall, was an American dancer and actor celebrated for his athletic, acrobatic performances in classic Hollywood musicals of the 1940s and 1950s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Edward Rall
Target entity description: Thomas Edward Rall, better known as Tommy Rall, was an American dancer and actor celebrated for his athletic, acrobatic performances in classic Hollywood musicals of the 1940s and 1950s.
  • A. Douglas Howser
    Douglas "Doogie" Howser is a teenage prodigy who works as a licensed physician while navigating the challenges of adolescence in the TV series "Doogie Howser, M.D."
  • B. Ron Duguay
    Ron Duguay is a former Canadian professional ice hockey forward best known for his NHL career with the New York Rangers and his distinctive long-haired look in the late 1970s and 1980s.
  • C. Wesley Kilmer
    Wesley Kilmer is a sibling of American actor Val Kilmer, known primarily in relation to his more famous brother.
  • D. James Harrod
    James Harrod was an American pioneer and early settler credited with founding Harrodsburg, the first permanent English settlement in Kentucky.
  • E. Anthony McHenry
    Anthony McHenry is an American professional basketball player best known for his long, successful career in Japan’s B.League, particularly as a key contributor to the Ryukyu Golden Kings.
  • 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_69e0c47fab1081908dc74a6545dbb051 completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f12455e99c819092ec59fe571f814e completed April 28, 2026, 9:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a670eb56081909fad6bbca91835c6 completed May 18, 2026, 1:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a67a1c82881909f71e24139576c31 completed May 18, 2026, 1:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a68583248819085f413692d35c1b9 completed May 18, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8 p.m.