Triple

T5430331
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hicks E121469 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Luther Hicks
Luther Hicks is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a distinct namesake of the surname Hicks.
E592806 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: Luther Hicks | Statement: [Hicks, hasNotableBearer, Luther Hicks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Luther Hicks
Context triple: [Hicks, hasNotableBearer, Luther Hicks]
  • A. Theodore Hickman
    Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
  • B. Leroy Hicks
    Leroy Hicks is an individual notable enough to be specifically recorded as a bearer of the surname Hicks, though widely recognized public information about him is limited.
  • C. Fred C. Dobbs
    Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
  • D. Louis W. Hill
    Louis W. Hill was an American railroad executive and businessman who helped expand and promote the Great Northern Railway and tourism in the northwestern United States.
  • E. Sylvester Pendleton Clark
    Sylvester Pendleton Clark was an individual significant enough in local history or public life that the town of Pendleton, New York, was named in his honor.
  • 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: Luther Hicks
Triple: [Hicks, hasNotableBearer, Luther Hicks]
Generated description
Luther Hicks is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a distinct namesake of the surname Hicks.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Luther Hicks
Target entity description: Luther Hicks is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a distinct namesake of the surname Hicks.
  • A. Theodore Hickman
    Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
  • B. Leroy Hicks
    Leroy Hicks is an individual notable enough to be specifically recorded as a bearer of the surname Hicks, though widely recognized public information about him is limited.
  • C. Fred C. Dobbs
    Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
  • D. Louis W. Hill
    Louis W. Hill was an American railroad executive and businessman who helped expand and promote the Great Northern Railway and tourism in the northwestern United States.
  • E. Sylvester Pendleton Clark
    Sylvester Pendleton Clark was an individual significant enough in local history or public life that the town of Pendleton, New York, was named in his honor.
  • 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_69bd463c65f0819082ee6483ab4b466a completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd883e5e10819091e159dfd245e94d completed March 20, 2026, 5:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6409132c481909f287f98290497f9 completed March 27, 2026, 8:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6431b4fa48190b92ef0d4af50f84a completed March 27, 2026, 8:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c643e3d6488190851d1a35bb7b2c6c completed March 27, 2026, 8:46 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:06 p.m.