Triple

T902047
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Life E19467 entity
Predicate editor P1954 FINISHED
Object Edward K. Thompson
Edward K. Thompson was an influential American magazine editor best known for his leadership at Life magazine during its mid-20th-century heyday.
E175490 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: Edward K. Thompson | Statement: [Life, editor, Edward K. Thompson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward K. Thompson
Context triple: [Life, editor, Edward K. Thompson]
  • A. Joseph C. Thompson
    Joseph C. Thompson is an American arts administrator best known for leading the development and long-term growth of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) into a major contemporary art institution.
  • B. Ed Thompson
    Ed Thompson is a key character in the 2011 horror-comedy film "Fright Night," portrayed as the protagonist's nerdy best friend who first uncovers the truth about their vampire neighbor.
  • C. George L. Dahl
    George L. Dahl was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for shaping much of Dallas’s skyline and major civic landmarks.
  • D. Robert H. Richards
    Robert H. Richards was a prominent American mining engineer and metallurgist known for pioneering work in ore dressing and mineral processing.
  • E. John M. Dawson
    John M. Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and computational plasma physics.
  • 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: Edward K. Thompson
Triple: [Life, editor, Edward K. Thompson]
Generated description
Edward K. Thompson was an influential American magazine editor best known for his leadership at Life magazine during its mid-20th-century heyday.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward K. Thompson
Target entity description: Edward K. Thompson was an influential American magazine editor best known for his leadership at Life magazine during its mid-20th-century heyday.
  • A. Joseph C. Thompson
    Joseph C. Thompson is an American arts administrator best known for leading the development and long-term growth of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) into a major contemporary art institution.
  • B. Ed Thompson
    Ed Thompson is a key character in the 2011 horror-comedy film "Fright Night," portrayed as the protagonist's nerdy best friend who first uncovers the truth about their vampire neighbor.
  • C. George L. Dahl
    George L. Dahl was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for shaping much of Dallas’s skyline and major civic landmarks.
  • D. Robert H. Richards
    Robert H. Richards was a prominent American mining engineer and metallurgist known for pioneering work in ore dressing and mineral processing.
  • E. John M. Dawson
    John M. Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and computational plasma physics.
  • 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_69a4939e889c8190ac148b3ac1a7f90b completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ad4412408190a6bf8fc7484a5781 completed March 1, 2026, 9:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad307c46988190bb4ba823ad313a88 completed March 8, 2026, 8:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad312e77ac8190b931a42317f2cefa completed March 8, 2026, 8:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad3184853c8190953b288693ce6ea4 completed March 8, 2026, 8:21 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.