Triple

T10491579
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Funny How Time Slips Away E247432 entity
Predicate originalPerformer P11499 FINISHED
Object Billy Walker
Billy Walker was an American country music singer and guitarist known for his smooth vocal style and a string of hits from the 1950s through the 1970s.
E867545 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: Billy Walker | Statement: [Funny How Time Slips Away, originalPerformer, Billy Walker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billy Walker
Context triple: [Funny How Time Slips Away, originalPerformer, Billy Walker]
  • A. Billy Walker
    Billy Walker is a collegiate sports administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at American University, overseeing the university’s NCAA Division I athletic programs.
  • B. Kit Walker
    Kit Walker is a central character in the television series "American Horror Story: Asylum," portrayed as a young man falsely accused of being a serial killer amid sinister events at a 1960s mental institution.
  • C. Hal Walker
    Hal Walker was an American film director best known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood comedies, including several popular Bing Crosby and Bob Hope "Road to..." films.
  • D. Joseph Walker
    Joseph Walker was a prominent American cinematographer best known for his influential work during Hollywood’s Golden Age, particularly in collaboration with director Frank Capra.
  • E. Bobby Walker
    Bobby Walker is the central protagonist of the 2010 drama film "The Company Men," a successful corporate executive whose life is upended when he is laid off during a wave of corporate downsizing.
  • 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: Billy Walker
Triple: [Funny How Time Slips Away, originalPerformer, Billy Walker]
Generated description
Billy Walker was an American country music singer and guitarist known for his smooth vocal style and a string of hits from the 1950s through the 1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billy Walker
Target entity description: Billy Walker was an American country music singer and guitarist known for his smooth vocal style and a string of hits from the 1950s through the 1970s.
  • A. Billy Walker
    Billy Walker is a collegiate sports administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at American University, overseeing the university’s NCAA Division I athletic programs.
  • B. Kit Walker
    Kit Walker is a central character in the television series "American Horror Story: Asylum," portrayed as a young man falsely accused of being a serial killer amid sinister events at a 1960s mental institution.
  • C. Hal Walker
    Hal Walker was an American film director best known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood comedies, including several popular Bing Crosby and Bob Hope "Road to..." films.
  • D. Joseph Walker
    Joseph Walker was a prominent American cinematographer best known for his influential work during Hollywood’s Golden Age, particularly in collaboration with director Frank Capra.
  • E. Bobby Walker
    Bobby Walker is the central protagonist of the 2010 drama film "The Company Men," a successful corporate executive whose life is upended when he is laid off during a wave of corporate downsizing.
  • 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_69d381c309b88190af78aa681cf6a4c2 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d5097e1c888190bc8e039f2e46181e completed April 7, 2026, 1:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d8dca37b0881908ced885d9853bc1b completed April 10, 2026, 11:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d8e8c81bdc8190b6b6dfe00025b514 completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d901ef24608190934377d9dc855d6f completed April 10, 2026, 1:58 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:24 p.m.