Triple

T78993
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Civil Liberties Union E1584 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Norman Thomas
Norman Thomas was a prominent American socialist leader, Presbyterian minister, and six-time U.S. presidential candidate known for his advocacy of civil liberties, pacifism, and social justice.
E30188 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: Norman Thomas | Statement: [American Civil Liberties Union, foundedBy, Norman Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman Thomas
Context triple: [American Civil Liberties Union, foundedBy, Norman Thomas]
  • A. Joseph T. Robinson
    Joseph T. Robinson was an influential Arkansas Democratic politician who served as U.S. Senate Majority Leader and was the party’s vice-presidential nominee in 1928.
  • B. James Eastland
    James Eastland was a powerful mid-20th-century U.S. senator from Mississippi known for his staunch segregationist views and influential role within the Southern Democratic bloc.
  • C. Stuart Symington
    Stuart Symington was an American businessman and politician who became the first U.S. Secretary of the Air Force and later served as a long-time United States Senator from Missouri.
  • D. Robert F. Wagner
    Robert F. Wagner was a prominent U.S. senator from New York known for championing New Deal labor reforms and workers’ rights.
  • E. Hartland Snyder
    Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist known for his early work on black hole physics and for being one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s notable doctoral students.
  • 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: Norman Thomas
Triple: [American Civil Liberties Union, foundedBy, Norman Thomas]
Generated description
Norman Thomas was a prominent American socialist leader, Presbyterian minister, and six-time U.S. presidential candidate known for his advocacy of civil liberties, pacifism, and social justice.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman Thomas
Target entity description: Norman Thomas was a prominent American socialist leader, Presbyterian minister, and six-time U.S. presidential candidate known for his advocacy of civil liberties, pacifism, and social justice.
  • A. Joseph T. Robinson
    Joseph T. Robinson was an influential Arkansas Democratic politician who served as U.S. Senate Majority Leader and was the party’s vice-presidential nominee in 1928.
  • B. James Eastland
    James Eastland was a powerful mid-20th-century U.S. senator from Mississippi known for his staunch segregationist views and influential role within the Southern Democratic bloc.
  • C. Stuart Symington
    Stuart Symington was an American businessman and politician who became the first U.S. Secretary of the Air Force and later served as a long-time United States Senator from Missouri.
  • D. Robert F. Wagner
    Robert F. Wagner was a prominent U.S. senator from New York known for championing New Deal labor reforms and workers’ rights.
  • E. Hartland Snyder
    Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist known for his early work on black hole physics and for being one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s notable doctoral students.
  • 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_69a24c60d19c8190a1b6c105ca59ef5b completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24f335b5c8190bf2158d884890ac2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a36473a3d88190b20052b2c0d272a2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a365272a248190866d714fc51b5cba completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3658e27bc8190a97ede95a99bc187 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:06 a.m.