Triple

T12188097
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Max (Midnight Express) E290387 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Billy Hayes (Midnight Express)
Billy Hayes is the real-life American whose harrowing experience of being imprisoned in Turkey for drug smuggling inspired the book and film "Midnight Express."
E967847 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 Hayes (Midnight Express) | Statement: [Max (Midnight Express), associatedWith, Billy Hayes (Midnight Express)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billy Hayes (Midnight Express)
Context triple: [Max (Midnight Express), associatedWith, Billy Hayes (Midnight Express)]
  • A. Eddie Money
    Eddie Money was an American rock singer and songwriter best known for his hit songs in the late 1970s and 1980s, including “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Take Me Home Tonight.”
  • B. Leo Sayer
    Leo Sayer is an English pop singer-songwriter best known for his 1970s hits such as "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" and "When I Need You."
  • C. Rocky Ratrock
    Rocky Ratrock is a recurring character in the animated series "The Flintstone Kids," appearing as part of the prehistoric, child-focused spin-off of "The Flintstones."
  • D. Michael Bolton
    Michael Bolton is an American singer and songwriter known for his powerful, soulful ballads and successful pop and adult contemporary hits, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
  • E. Mark Lenard
    Mark Lenard was an American actor best known to Star Trek fans for his recurring roles as Sarek, Spock’s Vulcan father, and other key alien characters across the franchise.
  • 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 Hayes (Midnight Express)
Triple: [Max (Midnight Express), associatedWith, Billy Hayes (Midnight Express)]
Generated description
Billy Hayes is the real-life American whose harrowing experience of being imprisoned in Turkey for drug smuggling inspired the book and film "Midnight Express."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billy Hayes (Midnight Express)
Target entity description: Billy Hayes is the real-life American whose harrowing experience of being imprisoned in Turkey for drug smuggling inspired the book and film "Midnight Express."
  • A. Eddie Money
    Eddie Money was an American rock singer and songwriter best known for his hit songs in the late 1970s and 1980s, including “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Take Me Home Tonight.”
  • B. Leo Sayer
    Leo Sayer is an English pop singer-songwriter best known for his 1970s hits such as "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" and "When I Need You."
  • C. Rocky Ratrock
    Rocky Ratrock is a recurring character in the animated series "The Flintstone Kids," appearing as part of the prehistoric, child-focused spin-off of "The Flintstones."
  • D. Michael Bolton
    Michael Bolton is an American singer and songwriter known for his powerful, soulful ballads and successful pop and adult contemporary hits, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
  • E. Mark Lenard
    Mark Lenard was an American actor best known to Star Trek fans for his recurring roles as Sarek, Spock’s Vulcan father, and other key alien characters across the franchise.
  • 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_69d6ab64de5881908d56eb7a75c6cc69 completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d916012c2c819085824332ad60059e completed April 10, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f5f6b0a84c8190ae593e368c13b5a5 completed May 2, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f600b7e1788190b1df4fdfd96118d0 completed May 2, 2026, 1:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f604c4ef7c8190bc128b1aa535744d completed May 2, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:50 p.m.