Triple

T6031319
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pickering E134308 entity
Predicate hasNotableSurnameBearer P30307 FINISHED
Object Thomas Pickering
Thomas Pickering is a notable individual distinguished by the historically recognized Pickering surname.
E565752 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 Pickering | Statement: [Pickering, hasNotableSurnameBearer, Thomas Pickering]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Pickering
Context triple: [Pickering, hasNotableSurnameBearer, Thomas Pickering]
  • A. Serranus Clinton Hastings
    Serranus Clinton Hastings was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and philanthropist who became a prominent figure in California’s early legal and political history, including founding the law school that long bore his name.
  • B. Thomas Clark
    Thomas Clark is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various professions, including politics, sports, academia, and the arts.
  • C. Tristram E. Speaker
    Tristram E. "Tris" Speaker was a Hall of Fame American baseball center fielder renowned for his exceptional defensive play and one of the highest career batting averages in Major League Baseball history.
  • D. John F. Brady
    John F. Brady is an American chemical engineer and applied mathematician known for his influential work in fluid mechanics and complex fluids, particularly in the microhydrodynamics of suspensions.
  • E. Roscoe Conkling
    Roscoe Conkling was a powerful 19th-century American Republican politician and U.S. Senator from New York known for his fierce advocacy of patronage politics and leadership of the party’s Stalwart wing.
  • 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 Pickering
Triple: [Pickering, hasNotableSurnameBearer, Thomas Pickering]
Generated description
Thomas Pickering is a notable individual distinguished by the historically recognized Pickering surname.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Pickering
Target entity description: Thomas Pickering is a notable individual distinguished by the historically recognized Pickering surname.
  • A. Serranus Clinton Hastings
    Serranus Clinton Hastings was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and philanthropist who became a prominent figure in California’s early legal and political history, including founding the law school that long bore his name.
  • B. Thomas Clark
    Thomas Clark is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various professions, including politics, sports, academia, and the arts.
  • C. Tristram E. Speaker
    Tristram E. "Tris" Speaker was a Hall of Fame American baseball center fielder renowned for his exceptional defensive play and one of the highest career batting averages in Major League Baseball history.
  • D. John F. Brady
    John F. Brady is an American chemical engineer and applied mathematician known for his influential work in fluid mechanics and complex fluids, particularly in the microhydrodynamics of suspensions.
  • E. Roscoe Conkling
    Roscoe Conkling was a powerful 19th-century American Republican politician and U.S. Senator from New York known for his fierce advocacy of patronage politics and leadership of the party’s Stalwart wing.
  • 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_69c0087515148190a97475d412563865 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c056af89e881909652957f94317684 completed March 22, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c11cefa21081909defda4da9278116 completed March 23, 2026, 10:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c11d91ddec819088e0c3988a4ba5b4 completed March 23, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c11e2da4408190a0b32a2712cb77df completed March 23, 2026, 11:04 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:08 p.m.