Triple

T8449787
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Knick E199771 entity
Predicate hasMainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Dr. John W. Thackery
Dr. John W. Thackery is a brilliant but deeply troubled early-20th-century surgeon whose groundbreaking medical innovations are driven by his severe addiction and personal demons.
E737511 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: Dr. John W. Thackery | Statement: [The Knick, hasMainCharacter, Dr. John W. Thackery]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. John W. Thackery
Context triple: [The Knick, hasMainCharacter, Dr. John W. Thackery]
  • A. Dr. William Weir
    Dr. William Weir is a central character in the science fiction horror film "Event Horizon," portrayed as the troubled designer of the ill-fated experimental starship whose return from a mysterious journey triggers the movie’s terrifying events.
  • B. William Henry Barlow
    William Henry Barlow was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer known for his influential work on railway infrastructure and bridge design.
  • C. Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
    Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke is the neurotic psychiatrist protagonist of Mel Brooks's parody film "High Anxiety," known for spoofing Alfred Hitchcock-style thrillers.
  • D. Sir Joseph Hickson
    Sir Joseph Hickson was a prominent 19th-century Canadian railway executive who played a key leadership role in the expansion and management of the Grand Trunk Railway.
  • E. Dr. Thomas Wynne
    Dr. Thomas Wynne was a 17th-century Welsh-born physician and close associate of William Penn who became one of the early settlers and leaders in colonial Pennsylvania.
  • 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: Dr. John W. Thackery
Triple: [The Knick, hasMainCharacter, Dr. John W. Thackery]
Generated description
Dr. John W. Thackery is a brilliant but deeply troubled early-20th-century surgeon whose groundbreaking medical innovations are driven by his severe addiction and personal demons.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. John W. Thackery
Target entity description: Dr. John W. Thackery is a brilliant but deeply troubled early-20th-century surgeon whose groundbreaking medical innovations are driven by his severe addiction and personal demons.
  • A. Dr. William Weir
    Dr. William Weir is a central character in the science fiction horror film "Event Horizon," portrayed as the troubled designer of the ill-fated experimental starship whose return from a mysterious journey triggers the movie’s terrifying events.
  • B. William Henry Barlow
    William Henry Barlow was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer known for his influential work on railway infrastructure and bridge design.
  • C. Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
    Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke is the neurotic psychiatrist protagonist of Mel Brooks's parody film "High Anxiety," known for spoofing Alfred Hitchcock-style thrillers.
  • D. Sir Joseph Hickson
    Sir Joseph Hickson was a prominent 19th-century Canadian railway executive who played a key leadership role in the expansion and management of the Grand Trunk Railway.
  • E. Dr. Thomas Wynne
    Dr. Thomas Wynne was a 17th-century Welsh-born physician and close associate of William Penn who became one of the early settlers and leaders in colonial Pennsylvania.
  • 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_69ca83170f9081909cd98f55614c6476 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe44707b88190b3d8b30c45ef4496 completed March 31, 2026, 3:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce39c11a488190b7775002e419eee7 completed April 2, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce3e82e57c81909b95577bd54616ff completed April 2, 2026, 10:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce3ef732748190a4c0beabc1cbfad7 completed April 2, 2026, 10:03 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:09 p.m.