Triple

T4358793
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tom Waits E98614 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Thomas
Thomas is the given first name of the American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor Tom Waits.
E433515 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 | Statement: [Tom Waits, givenName, Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Context triple: [Tom Waits, givenName, Thomas]
  • A. Thomas
    Thomas, also known as Doubting Thomas, is one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus in the New Testament, remembered for initially doubting Jesus’ resurrection until he saw and touched Christ’s wounds.
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is the full given name of Tom Thibodeau, an American professional basketball coach known for his defensive-minded teams in the NBA.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas, also known as Doubting Thomas, was one of Jesus Christ’s Twelve Apostles, remembered for initially doubting the Resurrection until he saw and touched Jesus’ wounds.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, a renowned British naval officer and radical politician of the 19th century.
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is the middle name of the British chemist and scientific adviser Henry Tizard.
  • 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
Triple: [Tom Waits, givenName, Thomas]
Generated description
Thomas is the given first name of the American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor Tom Waits.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas
Target entity description: Thomas is the given first name of the American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor Tom Waits.
  • A. Thomas
    Thomas is the given first name of the renowned American playwright Tennessee Williams, known for works such as "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is the first name of American country music singer and songwriter Luke Bryan.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the birth name of American actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black, known for films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of Tenacious D.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Paine, the influential 18th-century political philosopher and writer known for works like "Common Sense" and "The Rights of Man."
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is the given first name of American former heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Morrison.
  • 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_69b3454c772081908e20173e379e8ebe completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b351e1bfa48190bb506d9ca1ed7b6a completed March 12, 2026, 11:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5db874fb08190974a85cc139b020b completed March 14, 2026, 10:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5dd5a3edc81909cea8a66afc24598 completed March 14, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5ddad45b8819082ac7a3a9c5f2f07 completed March 14, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:16 p.m.