Triple

T5105059
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rod Thorn E115071 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Thorn
Thorn is a surname most notably associated with Rod Thorn, a prominent figure in American professional basketball as both a player and executive.
E494225 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: Thorn | Statement: [Rod Thorn, familyName, Thorn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thorn
Context triple: [Rod Thorn, familyName, Thorn]
  • A. Thorn
    Thorn is a historic city on the Vistula River, now known as Toruń in Poland, renowned for its well-preserved medieval architecture and as the birthplace of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
  • B. Yarrowitch
    Yarrowitch is a small rural locality in New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural landscape and proximity to national parks and natural attractions.
  • C. Jack Firebrace
    Jack Firebrace is a compassionate, working-class tunneller in Sebastian Faulks’s World War I novel "Birdsong," whose experiences highlight the human cost of the conflict.
  • D. Shriever
    Shriever is a surname, a variant spelling of "Shriver," borne by various individuals of English-speaking origin.
  • E. Thorns
    Thorns is a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of identity, trauma, and media exploitation in a dystopian future.
  • 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: Thorn
Triple: [Rod Thorn, familyName, Thorn]
Generated description
Thorn is a surname most notably associated with Rod Thorn, a prominent figure in American professional basketball as both a player and executive.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thorn
Target entity description: Thorn is a surname most notably associated with Rod Thorn, a prominent figure in American professional basketball as both a player and executive.
  • A. Thorn
    Thorn is a historic city on the Vistula River, now known as Toruń in Poland, renowned for its well-preserved medieval architecture and as the birthplace of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
  • B. Yarrowitch
    Yarrowitch is a small rural locality in New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural landscape and proximity to national parks and natural attractions.
  • C. Jack Firebrace
    Jack Firebrace is a compassionate, working-class tunneller in Sebastian Faulks’s World War I novel "Birdsong," whose experiences highlight the human cost of the conflict.
  • D. Shriever
    Shriever is a surname, a variant spelling of "Shriver," borne by various individuals of English-speaking origin.
  • E. Thorns
    Thorns is the commonly used shorthand name for Portland Thorns FC, a professional women's soccer team based in Portland, Oregon.
  • 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_69bd4440b3348190be1251fd8b7951f1 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7589e40c8190a46e4a1b7142be14 completed March 20, 2026, 4:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69beba95dbd48190a7d87f3af77424e0 completed March 21, 2026, 3:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bebb5e60e08190b030f5eeaac49ab7 completed March 21, 2026, 3:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bebd1f6e348190b61c89706b683ff3 completed March 21, 2026, 3:45 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:41 p.m.