Triple

T3398714
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Flanagan E71593 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Thomas Flanagan
Thomas Flanagan is a name shared by several notable individuals, including an Irish-American historian of the Irish diaspora and a prominent Irish-born Australian Catholic bishop.
E356318 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 Flanagan | Statement: [Flanagan, hasNotableBearer, Thomas Flanagan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Flanagan
Context triple: [Flanagan, hasNotableBearer, Thomas Flanagan]
  • A. Tom Flanagan
    Tom Flanagan is a Canadian political scientist and conservative commentator known for his influential role as an adviser to former Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his controversial views on Indigenous policy.
  • B. James L. Flanagan
    James L. Flanagan was a pioneering American electrical engineer and speech scientist known for his influential contributions to digital signal processing and speech communication.
  • C. Ralph Cifaretto
    Ralph Cifaretto is a volatile, sadistic mob captain in the HBO series "The Sopranos," known for his cruelty, dark humor, and pivotal role in several of the show's most shocking storylines.
  • D. Eddie Spears
    Eddie Spears is a Native American actor known for his roles in film and television, particularly in Western and Indigenous-themed productions.
  • E. Bob McFadden
    Bob McFadden was an American voice actor and impressionist known for his work in animated television specials and cartoons from the 1960s through the 1980s.
  • 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 Flanagan
Triple: [Flanagan, hasNotableBearer, Thomas Flanagan]
Generated description
Thomas Flanagan is a name shared by several notable individuals, including an Irish-American historian of the Irish diaspora and a prominent Irish-born Australian Catholic bishop.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Flanagan
Target entity description: Thomas Flanagan is a name shared by several notable individuals, including an Irish-American historian of the Irish diaspora and a prominent Irish-born Australian Catholic bishop.
  • A. Tom Flanagan
    Tom Flanagan is a Canadian political scientist and conservative commentator known for his influential role as an adviser to former Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his controversial views on Indigenous policy.
  • B. James L. Flanagan
    James L. Flanagan was a pioneering American electrical engineer and speech scientist known for his influential contributions to digital signal processing and speech communication.
  • C. Ralph Cifaretto
    Ralph Cifaretto is a volatile, sadistic mob captain in the HBO series "The Sopranos," known for his cruelty, dark humor, and pivotal role in several of the show's most shocking storylines.
  • D. Eddie Spears
    Eddie Spears is a Native American actor known for his roles in film and television, particularly in Western and Indigenous-themed productions.
  • E. Bob McFadden
    Bob McFadden was an American voice actor and impressionist known for his work in animated television specials and cartoons from the 1960s through the 1980s.
  • 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_69ad85aac4808190a092c9cc8911f584 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb8c5816881909f91e6e9b81d29e3 completed March 8, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b35466945c8190b01aa016608415a0 completed March 13, 2026, 12:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b35546dfa0819081800009fbe8afe3 completed March 13, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b355cecc4c81908ecb5f83e89b4a00 completed March 13, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:14 p.m.