Triple

T14841650
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Johnny Mathis E348978 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object John Royce Mathis
John Royce Mathis is an American pop and jazz singer renowned for his smooth vocal style and romantic ballads, with a career spanning more than six decades.
E1121958 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: John Royce Mathis | Statement: [Johnny Mathis, birthName, John Royce Mathis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Royce Mathis
Context triple: [Johnny Mathis, birthName, John Royce Mathis]
  • A. Mathis James Reed
    Mathis James Reed, better known as Jimmy Reed, was an influential American blues musician whose laid-back vocal style and harmonica-driven songs helped shape electric blues and early rock and roll.
  • B. Jeffrey Beaumont
    Jeffrey Beaumont is the curious young protagonist of David Lynch's film "Blue Velvet," whose investigation into a severed ear draws him into a dark underworld of crime and perversion.
  • C. Stuart Mathis
    Stuart Mathis is an American guitarist best known for his work with The Wallflowers and as a versatile session and touring musician.
  • D. David Lee Henry
    David Lee Henry is an American screenwriter best known for his work on crime and action films in the 1980s, including the adaptation of Lawrence Block’s novel "8 Million Ways to Die."
  • E. James Leslie Vaughn
    James Leslie Vaughn, better known as Hippo Vaughn, was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball pitcher most recognized for his standout seasons with the Chicago Cubs.
  • 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: John Royce Mathis
Triple: [Johnny Mathis, birthName, John Royce Mathis]
Generated description
John Royce Mathis is an American pop and jazz singer renowned for his smooth vocal style and romantic ballads, with a career spanning more than six decades.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Royce Mathis
Target entity description: John Royce Mathis is an American pop and jazz singer renowned for his smooth vocal style and romantic ballads, with a career spanning more than six decades.
  • A. Mathis James Reed
    Mathis James Reed, better known as Jimmy Reed, was an influential American blues musician whose laid-back vocal style and harmonica-driven songs helped shape electric blues and early rock and roll.
  • B. Jeffrey Beaumont
    Jeffrey Beaumont is the curious young protagonist of David Lynch's film "Blue Velvet," whose investigation into a severed ear draws him into a dark underworld of crime and perversion.
  • C. Stuart Mathis
    Stuart Mathis is an American guitarist best known for his work with The Wallflowers and as a versatile session and touring musician.
  • D. David Lee Henry
    David Lee Henry is an American screenwriter best known for his work on crime and action films in the 1980s, including the adaptation of Lawrence Block’s novel "8 Million Ways to Die."
  • E. James Leslie Vaughn
    James Leslie Vaughn, better known as Hippo Vaughn, was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball pitcher most recognized for his standout seasons with the Chicago Cubs.
  • 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_69d822ec69008190a9232caa68836872 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded28fa49c81908d1059e6cafd607f completed April 14, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe38a9eb9481908ca509f484007cf6 completed May 8, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe3d0eca948190b107bc593b6e5b72 completed May 8, 2026, 7:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe3d94785881908911a7c6f1546d45 completed May 8, 2026, 7:46 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:53 a.m.