Triple

T4452813
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tom Wilson E97652 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr.
Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr., better known as Tom Wilson, is an American actor and comedian best known for playing the bully Biff Tannen in the "Back to the Future" film trilogy.
E377107 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 Blanchard Wilson Jr. | Statement: [Tom Wilson, birthName, Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr.
Context triple: [Tom Wilson, birthName, Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr.]
  • A. Thomas F. Wilson
    Thomas F. Wilson is an American actor and comedian best known for playing bully Biff Tannen and his relatives across the Back to the Future film trilogy.
  • B. Woodrow Wilson
    Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through World War I and advocating for the League of Nations and progressive domestic reforms.
  • C. Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
    Robert Joseph Pershing Foster was an African American physician whose migration from the Jim Crow South to California is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s book *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
  • D. Thomas Luther Bryan
    Thomas Luther Bryan is the birth name of Luke Bryan, a popular American country music singer and songwriter known for numerous chart-topping hits.
  • E. William Warren Bradley
    William Warren Bradley is an American former professional basketball player, U.S. senator from New Jersey, and Democratic presidential candidate known for his work on tax reform and campaign finance.
  • 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 Blanchard Wilson Jr.
Triple: [Tom Wilson, birthName, Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr.]
Generated description
Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr., better known as Tom Wilson, is an American actor and comedian best known for playing the bully Biff Tannen in the "Back to the Future" film trilogy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr.
Target entity description: Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr., better known as Tom Wilson, is an American actor and comedian best known for playing the bully Biff Tannen in the "Back to the Future" film trilogy.
  • A. Thomas F. Wilson chosen
    Thomas F. Wilson is an American actor and comedian best known for playing bully Biff Tannen and his relatives across the Back to the Future film trilogy.
  • B. Woodrow Wilson
    Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through World War I and advocating for the League of Nations and progressive domestic reforms.
  • C. Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
    Robert Joseph Pershing Foster was an African American physician whose migration from the Jim Crow South to California is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s book *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
  • D. Thomas Luther Bryan
    Thomas Luther Bryan is the birth name of Luke Bryan, a popular American country music singer and songwriter known for numerous chart-topping hits.
  • E. William Warren Bradley
    William Warren Bradley is an American former professional basketball player, U.S. senator from New Jersey, and Democratic presidential candidate known for his work on tax reform and campaign finance.
  • F. None of above.

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_69b3454777808190b78aa9047ba1f018 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b355f49dc081908727af81b886c08d completed March 13, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b6138ea77881908381e9ea8ad2b7fe completed March 15, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b61465bb4081908a638a908c31c489 completed March 15, 2026, 2:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b6156db4a081909054f7db172315e9 completed March 15, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:33 p.m.