Triple

T6380613
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rob Thomas E143569 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Robert Kelly Thomas
Robert Kelly Thomas is an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Matchbox Twenty and for his successful solo career.
E589459 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: Robert Kelly Thomas | Statement: [Rob Thomas, birthName, Robert Kelly Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Kelly Thomas
Context triple: [Rob Thomas, birthName, Robert Kelly Thomas]
  • A. James Kelly
    James Kelly was a 19th-century American newspaper publisher and one of the founders of the Chicago Tribune.
  • B. James Kelly
    James Kelly is a NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force test pilot who flew as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Discovery on missions including the post-Columbia return-to-flight STS-114.
  • C. Charles Edward Kelly
    Charles Edward "Chip" Kelly is an American football coach best known for his innovative up-tempo offenses in college football at Oregon and in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers.
  • D. Jeremy Thomas
    Jeremy Thomas is a renowned British film producer known for his work on acclaimed independent and art-house films, including multiple collaborations with prominent directors.
  • E. Tony Thomas
    Tony Thomas is an American television and film producer best known for co-founding Witt/Thomas Productions and producing popular sitcoms such as "The Golden Girls."
  • 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: Robert Kelly Thomas
Triple: [Rob Thomas, birthName, Robert Kelly Thomas]
Generated description
Robert Kelly Thomas is an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Matchbox Twenty and for his successful solo career.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Kelly Thomas
Target entity description: Robert Kelly Thomas is an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Matchbox Twenty and for his successful solo career.
  • A. James Kelly
    James Kelly was a 19th-century American newspaper publisher and one of the founders of the Chicago Tribune.
  • B. James Kelly
    James Kelly is a NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force test pilot who flew as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Discovery on missions including the post-Columbia return-to-flight STS-114.
  • C. Charles Edward Kelly
    Charles Edward "Chip" Kelly is an American football coach best known for his innovative up-tempo offenses in college football at Oregon and in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers.
  • D. Jeremy Thomas
    Jeremy Thomas is a renowned British film producer known for his work on acclaimed independent and art-house films, including multiple collaborations with prominent directors.
  • E. Tony Thomas
    Tony Thomas is an American television and film producer best known for co-founding Witt/Thomas Productions and producing popular sitcoms such as "The Golden Girls."
  • 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_69c008d9f4348190ab598a2913259a1c completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0685265208190b2204bd4abff2668 completed March 22, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c62daf2f408190923d67bd0222d2bb completed March 27, 2026, 7:11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c63321ec688190ae527f6ae9be5791 completed March 27, 2026, 7:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c633e823548190950cc50e360e4ef6 completed March 27, 2026, 7:38 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:33 p.m.