Triple

T4588951
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tom Paxton E103436 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Thomas Richard Paxton
Thomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer-songwriter and prominent figure of the 1960s folk revival, known for his socially conscious and narrative-driven songs.
 E512329 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 Richard Paxton | Statement: [Tom Paxton, birthName, Thomas Richard Paxton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Richard Paxton
Context triple: [Tom Paxton, birthName, Thomas Richard Paxton]
  • A. Francis Newton Gifford
    Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
  • B. Lewis M. Rutherfurd
    Lewis M. Rutherfurd was a 19th-century American lawyer-turned-astronomer and pioneering astrophotographer known for his influential work in celestial photography and astronomical instrumentation.
  • C. Thomas Hudson Jones
    Thomas Hudson Jones was an American sculptor best known for his military monuments and memorials created in the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. William A. Wheeler
    William A. Wheeler was an American politician who served as the 19th vice president of the United States under President Rutherford B. Hayes.
  • E. Edgar A. Joralemon
    Edgar A. Joralemon was an American architect best known for designing the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
  • 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 Richard Paxton
Triple: [Tom Paxton, birthName, Thomas Richard Paxton]
Generated description
Thomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer-songwriter and prominent figure of the 1960s folk revival, known for his socially conscious and narrative-driven songs.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Richard Paxton
Target entity description: Thomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer-songwriter and prominent figure of the 1960s folk revival, known for his socially conscious and narrative-driven songs.
  • A. Francis Newton Gifford
    Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
  • B. Lewis M. Rutherfurd
    Lewis M. Rutherfurd was a 19th-century American lawyer-turned-astronomer and pioneering astrophotographer known for his influential work in celestial photography and astronomical instrumentation.
  • C. Thomas Hudson Jones
    Thomas Hudson Jones was an American sculptor best known for his military monuments and memorials created in the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. William A. Wheeler
    William A. Wheeler was an American politician who served as the 19th vice president of the United States under President Rutherford B. Hayes.
  • E. Edgar A. Joralemon
    Edgar A. Joralemon was an American architect best known for designing the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
  • 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_69bd43dccaf08190aa89e9991a289719 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd592115fc8190b1aee1d8bbaf1ee3 completed March 20, 2026, 2:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf185bce7c8190ad94ab3f848a0040 completed March 21, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf1a2478a481908aa08e08016e493b completed March 21, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf1a7f9c808190a067a2e983d77008 completed March 21, 2026, 10:23 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:11 p.m.