Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steel Curtain defense of the 1970s E64119 entity
Predicate notablePlayer P304 FINISHED
Object J. T. Thomas
J. T. Thomas is a former NFL cornerback best known for his key role on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ dominant 1970s teams that won multiple Super Bowls.
 E325516 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: J. T. Thomas | Statement: [Steel Curtain defense of the 1970s, notablePlayer, J. T. Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: J. T. Thomas
Context triple: [Steel Curtain defense of the 1970s, notablePlayer, J. T. Thomas]
  • A. 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."
  • B. 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.
  • C. Robert Tatum
    Robert Tatum was an American mountaineer best known as a member of the first successful expedition to reach the summit of Denali (Mount McKinley) in 1913.
  • D. Dean Thomas
    Dean Thomas is a fictional Gryffindor student and member of Dumbledore's Army in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
  • E. T. Y. Thomas
    T. Y. Thomas was a mathematician known for his work in differential geometry and tensor analysis, contributing foundational ideas that influenced later developments in complex systems and theoretical science.
  • 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: J. T. Thomas
Triple: [Steel Curtain defense of the 1970s, notablePlayer, J. T. Thomas]
Generated description
J. T. Thomas is a former NFL cornerback best known for his key role on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ dominant 1970s teams that won multiple Super Bowls.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: J. T. Thomas
Target entity description: J. T. Thomas is a former NFL cornerback best known for his key role on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ dominant 1970s teams that won multiple Super Bowls.
  • A. 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."
  • B. 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.
  • C. Robert Tatum
    Robert Tatum was an American mountaineer best known as a member of the first successful expedition to reach the summit of Denali (Mount McKinley) in 1913.
  • D. Dean Thomas
    Dean Thomas is a fictional Gryffindor student and member of Dumbledore's Army in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
  • E. T. Y. Thomas
    T. Y. Thomas was a mathematician known for his work in differential geometry and tensor analysis, contributing foundational ideas that influenced later developments in complex systems and theoretical science.
  • 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_69ad857a8aec8190bfdfd9c14554ac5a completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada150d8e08190bde5f68e800e8feb completed March 8, 2026, 4:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1f889e7fc8190858845221998f321 completed March 11, 2026, 11:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1fc3dc05081909e31da44fb8b37c7 completed March 11, 2026, 11:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1fd2088388190b405726e7869e112 completed March 11, 2026, 11:39 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:02 p.m.