Triple
T8891475
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen |
E211686
|
entity |
| Predicate | portrayedBy |
P1507
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas F. Wilson |
E377107
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 F. Wilson | Statement: [Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, portrayedBy, Thomas F. Wilson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas F. Wilson Context triple: [Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, portrayedBy, Thomas F. Wilson]
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A.
Thomas F. Wilson
chosen
Thomas F. Wilson is an American actor and comedian best known for playing bully Biff Tannen and his relatives across the Back to the Future film trilogy.
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B.
Louis D. Wilson
Louis D. Wilson was a 19th-century North Carolina politician and military officer after whom the city of Wilson, North Carolina, is named.
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C.
Edwin C. Wilson
Edwin C. Wilson was an American diplomat who became the first U.S. ambassador to Australia, helping to establish and shape the modern diplomatic relationship between the two countries.
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D.
George N. Humphrey
George N. Humphrey was an American businessman and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, known for shaping and promoting the administration’s fiscally conservative “Modern Republican” economic policies.
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E.
Romeyn B. Ayres
Romeyn B. Ayres was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership of infantry units in key late-war battles.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca83907954819096d52a245b635841 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc61ba33c48190a657fc4147a326c0 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 12:07 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d2571ac8ec8190bf59c2cec5e2e6e2 |
completed | April 5, 2026, 12:35 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:54 p.m.