Triple

T10241266
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fats Waller E243597 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Thomas Wright Waller
Thomas Wright Waller, better known as Fats Waller, was an influential American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and entertainer renowned for his stride piano style and humorous performances.
E853482 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: Thomas Wright Waller | Statement: [Fats Waller, birthName, Thomas Wright Waller]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Wright Waller
Context triple: [Fats Waller, birthName, Thomas Wright Waller]
  • A. Thomas Beall Davis
    Thomas Beall Davis was an American businessman, railroad executive, and Democratic politician from West Virginia who served in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 20th century.
  • B. Izear Luster Turner Jr.
    Izear Luster Turner Jr., better known as Ike Turner, was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, and producer widely recognized as a rock and roll pioneer and for his turbulent musical and personal partnership with Tina Turner.
  • C. Dabney H. Maury
    Dabney H. Maury was a Confederate general and former U.S. Army officer who played a prominent role in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and later became a diplomat and author.
  • D. Irvine Stephens Bulloch
    Irvine Stephens Bulloch was a Confederate naval officer and the uncle of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, known for his service as a commerce raider during the American Civil War.
  • E. Wilson Lumpkin
    Wilson Lumpkin was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman, known for his role in the state's early development and politics.
  • 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: Thomas Wright Waller
Triple: [Fats Waller, birthName, Thomas Wright Waller]
Generated description
Thomas Wright Waller, better known as Fats Waller, was an influential American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and entertainer renowned for his stride piano style and humorous performances.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Wright Waller
Target entity description: Thomas Wright Waller, better known as Fats Waller, was an influential American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and entertainer renowned for his stride piano style and humorous performances.
  • A. Thomas Beall Davis
    Thomas Beall Davis was an American businessman, railroad executive, and Democratic politician from West Virginia who served in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 20th century.
  • B. Izear Luster Turner Jr.
    Izear Luster Turner Jr., better known as Ike Turner, was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, and producer widely recognized as a rock and roll pioneer and for his turbulent musical and personal partnership with Tina Turner.
  • C. Dabney H. Maury
    Dabney H. Maury was a Confederate general and former U.S. Army officer who played a prominent role in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and later became a diplomat and author.
  • D. Irvine Stephens Bulloch
    Irvine Stephens Bulloch was a Confederate naval officer and the uncle of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, known for his service as a commerce raider during the American Civil War.
  • E. Wilson Lumpkin
    Wilson Lumpkin was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman, known for his role in the state's early development and politics.
  • 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_69d381b0f97c819085c9b45799a5fb7c completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4d21f2ae0819098ac60c828dc9cae completed April 7, 2026, 9:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d6f780c7808190993e7c37cb4d18a3 completed April 9, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d6fa2f7a848190a9de5de4d0f3f110 completed April 9, 2026, 1 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d6fcbab3ec8190ade1c0223c22ad58 completed April 9, 2026, 1:11 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:24 a.m.