Triple

T2330683
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomaston, Maine E44194 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Thomas Thomaston (implied from name origin – not certain)
Thomas Thomaston is a hypothesized historical namesake whose surname suggests he may have been the person after whom Thomaston, Maine, was named, though specific details about him are uncertain.
 E256035 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 Thomaston (implied from name origin – not certain) | Statement: [Thomaston, Maine, namedAfter, Thomas Thomaston (implied from name origin – not certain)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Thomaston (implied from name origin – not certain)
Context triple: [Thomaston, Maine, namedAfter, Thomas Thomaston (implied from name origin – not certain)]
  • A. Thomson Mason
    Thomson Mason was a Virginia lawyer, planter, and jurist from the prominent Mason family in the 18th century.
  • B. Thomson family
    The Thomson family is a prominent Canadian business dynasty known for its vast media and information-services holdings and status as one of the world’s wealthiest families.
  • C. John Thomas
    John Thomas is an American cinematographer best known for his work on the Sex and the City television series and its film adaptations.
  • D. Tony Thomas
    Tony Thomas is an American television and film producer best known for co-founding Witt/Thomas Productions and producing popular sitcoms such as "The Golden Girls."
  • E. Dean Thomas
    Dean Thomas is a fictional Gryffindor student and member of Dumbledore's Army in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
  • 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 Thomaston (implied from name origin – not certain)
Triple: [Thomaston, Maine, namedAfter, Thomas Thomaston (implied from name origin – not certain)]
Generated description
Thomas Thomaston is a hypothesized historical namesake whose surname suggests he may have been the person after whom Thomaston, Maine, was named, though specific details about him are uncertain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Thomaston (implied from name origin – not certain)
Target entity description: Thomas Thomaston is a hypothesized historical namesake whose surname suggests he may have been the person after whom Thomaston, Maine, was named, though specific details about him are uncertain.
  • A. Thomson Mason
    Thomson Mason was a Virginia lawyer, planter, and jurist from the prominent Mason family in the 18th century.
  • B. Thomson family
    The Thomson family is a prominent Canadian business dynasty known for its vast media and information-services holdings and status as one of the world’s wealthiest families.
  • C. John Thomas
    John Thomas is an American cinematographer best known for his work on the Sex and the City television series and its film adaptations.
  • D. Tony Thomas
    Tony Thomas is an American television and film producer best known for co-founding Witt/Thomas Productions and producing popular sitcoms such as "The Golden Girls."
  • E. Dean Thomas
    Dean Thomas is a fictional Gryffindor student and member of Dumbledore's Army in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
  • 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_69a889132b488190bbb43ad4780ddd92 completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc669956881908b8d9784d6a06acf completed March 7, 2026, 6:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae8974ab8c81908ec2bddcc882cf42 completed March 9, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae8a084b388190a6d79df8d94b236d completed March 9, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae8a895b6c8190bfd064742e3cc4f8 completed March 9, 2026, 8:53 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:51 p.m.