Triple

T13072659
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Uptown Funk E329492 entity
Predicate writer P1360 FINISHED
Object Lonnie Simmons
Lonnie Simmons is an American music producer and songwriter best known for his influential work in funk and R&B, particularly with The Gap Band.
E1023299 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: Lonnie Simmons | Statement: [Uptown Funk, writer, Lonnie Simmons]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lonnie Simmons
Context triple: [Uptown Funk, writer, Lonnie Simmons]
  • A. Lonnie Lynn
    Lonnie Lynn was an American jazz musician and poet best known as the father of rapper Common and for his spoken-word appearances on his son's albums.
  • B. Lonnie Fuller
    Lonnie Fuller is an individual notable enough to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the surname Fuller.
  • C. Roy Hinson
    Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
  • D. Lonnie Wilson
    Lonnie Wilson is an American country music songwriter and drummer known for co-writing several hit songs for major country artists.
  • E. Lonnie E. Smith
    Lonnie E. Smith was an African American voter whose challenge to racially discriminatory primary elections led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright (1944), which struck down white-only primaries.
  • 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: Lonnie Simmons
Triple: [Uptown Funk, writer, Lonnie Simmons]
Generated description
Lonnie Simmons is an American music producer and songwriter best known for his influential work in funk and R&B, particularly with The Gap Band.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lonnie Simmons
Target entity description: Lonnie Simmons is an American music producer and songwriter best known for his influential work in funk and R&B, particularly with The Gap Band.
  • A. Lonnie Lynn
    Lonnie Lynn was an American jazz musician and poet best known as the father of rapper Common and for his spoken-word appearances on his son's albums.
  • B. Lonnie Fuller
    Lonnie Fuller is an individual notable enough to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the surname Fuller.
  • C. Roy Hinson
    Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
  • D. Lonnie Wilson
    Lonnie Wilson is an American country music songwriter and drummer known for co-writing several hit songs for major country artists.
  • E. Lonnie E. Smith
    Lonnie E. Smith was an African American voter whose challenge to racially discriminatory primary elections led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright (1944), which struck down white-only primaries.
  • 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_69d80771749c81909a6d9197b9504872 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d981160e388190bab942a2ded2903e completed April 10, 2026, 11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6e27058dc8190a64e1a929f296619 completed May 3, 2026, 5:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6e6a8b15081908d80cd63b0c423f6 completed May 3, 2026, 6:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6e7490cc48190b596338cd3a0fd22 completed May 3, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9 p.m.