Triple

T2216138
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billy Bob Thornton E48035 entity
Predicate hasChild P369 FINISHED
Object Harry James Thornton
Harry James Thornton is the son of American actor and filmmaker Billy Bob Thornton, known primarily for his connection to his father's public career.
E249136 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: Harry James Thornton | Statement: [Billy Bob Thornton, hasChild, Harry James Thornton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry James Thornton
Context triple: [Billy Bob Thornton, hasChild, Harry James Thornton]
  • A. Brian Thornton
    Brian Thornton is an American college sports executive who serves as the commissioner of the Western Athletic Conference.
  • B. Aaron Ogden
    Aaron Ogden was an early 19th-century American politician and steamboat operator whose state-granted monopoly became the focus of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, which helped define federal power over interstate commerce.
  • C. Alan Dawson
    Alan Dawson is an American jazz drummer and influential educator renowned for his work with artists like Dave Brubeck and for shaping modern drum pedagogy.
  • D. Dennis Burkley
    Dennis Burkley was an American character actor known for his burly appearance and roles in numerous film and television productions from the 1970s through the early 2000s.
  • E. Neil Canton
    Neil Canton is an American film producer best known for his work on the Back to the Future trilogy and other major Hollywood films.
  • 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: Harry James Thornton
Triple: [Billy Bob Thornton, hasChild, Harry James Thornton]
Generated description
Harry James Thornton is the son of American actor and filmmaker Billy Bob Thornton, known primarily for his connection to his father's public career.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry James Thornton
Target entity description: Harry James Thornton is the son of American actor and filmmaker Billy Bob Thornton, known primarily for his connection to his father's public career.
  • A. Brian Thornton
    Brian Thornton is an American college sports executive who serves as the commissioner of the Western Athletic Conference.
  • B. Aaron Ogden
    Aaron Ogden was an early 19th-century American politician and steamboat operator whose state-granted monopoly became the focus of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, which helped define federal power over interstate commerce.
  • C. Alan Dawson
    Alan Dawson is an American jazz drummer and influential educator renowned for his work with artists like Dave Brubeck and for shaping modern drum pedagogy.
  • D. Dennis Burkley
    Dennis Burkley was an American character actor known for his burly appearance and roles in numerous film and television productions from the 1970s through the early 2000s.
  • E. Neil Canton
    Neil Canton is an American film producer best known for his work on the Back to the Future trilogy and other major Hollywood films.
  • 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_69a88aa1ee708190862c8c378c41e9eb completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc00f4c3881909d03301fcdfa8b67 completed March 7, 2026, 6:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae71b811748190b985972a74c0355d completed March 9, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae72a2b92c8190a7d4ff441f1cb1ce completed March 9, 2026, 7:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae732a7cf08190b119ca7809350269 completed March 9, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:46 p.m.