Triple

T10244630
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Chi-Lites E240180 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object Robert "Squirrel" Lester
Robert "Squirrel" Lester was an American singer and guitarist best known as a longtime member of the Chicago soul and R&B group The Chi-Lites.
E853591 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: Robert "Squirrel" Lester | Statement: [The Chi-Lites, notableMember, Robert "Squirrel" Lester]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert "Squirrel" Lester
Context triple: [The Chi-Lites, notableMember, Robert "Squirrel" Lester]
  • A. Don Robinson
    Don Robinson is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher known for his long career primarily with the Pittsburgh Pirates and his role as both a starter and reliever in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • B. Lester Neil Smith III
    Lester Neil Smith III, better known as L. Neil Smith, was an American science fiction author and libertarian activist noted for his libertarian-themed alternate history and space opera novels.
  • C. Bill Strother
    Bill Strother was an American actor and professional "human fly" stunt climber best known for his daring skyscraper-climbing role alongside Harold Lloyd in the silent film era.
  • D. Lester Billings
    Lester Billings is the troubled protagonist of Stephen King’s short horror story “The Boogeyman,” a man haunted by the mysterious deaths of his children and his belief in a supernatural killer.
  • E. Lester Krinklesac
    Lester Krinklesac is a dim-witted yet good-natured redneck character from the animated TV series "The Cleveland Show."
  • 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: Robert "Squirrel" Lester
Triple: [The Chi-Lites, notableMember, Robert "Squirrel" Lester]
Generated description
Robert "Squirrel" Lester was an American singer and guitarist best known as a longtime member of the Chicago soul and R&B group The Chi-Lites.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert "Squirrel" Lester
Target entity description: Robert "Squirrel" Lester was an American singer and guitarist best known as a longtime member of the Chicago soul and R&B group The Chi-Lites.
  • A. Don Robinson
    Don Robinson is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher known for his long career primarily with the Pittsburgh Pirates and his role as both a starter and reliever in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • B. Lester Neil Smith III
    Lester Neil Smith III, better known as L. Neil Smith, was an American science fiction author and libertarian activist noted for his libertarian-themed alternate history and space opera novels.
  • C. Bill Strother
    Bill Strother was an American actor and professional "human fly" stunt climber best known for his daring skyscraper-climbing role alongside Harold Lloyd in the silent film era.
  • D. Lester Billings
    Lester Billings is the troubled protagonist of Stephen King’s short horror story “The Boogeyman,” a man haunted by the mysterious deaths of his children and his belief in a supernatural killer.
  • E. Lester Krinklesac
    Lester Krinklesac is a dim-witted yet good-natured redneck character from the animated TV series "The Cleveland Show."
  • 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_69d381a7e198819090280d5ab885d59e completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4d22be0208190b671a4e3f81d11b8 completed April 7, 2026, 9:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d6f79c20e08190928d061b3d4b4e47 completed April 9, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d6fa303d4c8190b9f1c3addf7d8b09 completed April 9, 2026, 1 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d6ff301d488190b18f1e02bbf1dada completed April 9, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:26 a.m.