Triple

T15293512
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herb E365590 entity
Predicate usedBy P260 FINISHED
Object Herb Jeffries
Herb Jeffries was an American jazz and popular music singer and actor, best known as the “Bronze Buckaroo” for his pioneering roles in all-Black Western films and as a vocalist with Duke Ellington’s orchestra.
E1148744 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: Herb Jeffries | Statement: [Herb, usedBy, Herb Jeffries]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herb Jeffries
Context triple: [Herb, usedBy, Herb Jeffries]
  • A. Nelson Eddy
    Nelson Eddy was a popular American baritone singer and film actor best known for his musical films of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly his collaborations with Jeanette MacDonald.
  • B. Leroy McClain
    Leroy McClain is a British-American actor known for his work in television, film, and theater, including his role as Shy Baldwin in *The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel*.
  • C. Otto Hunte
    Otto Hunte was a prominent German film art director and production designer best known for his influential work on classic Weimar-era films, including Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.
  • D. Roy Harlow
    Roy Harlow was the husband of silent film actress Marie Mosquini, known primarily in relation to her career in early American cinema.
  • E. Mack Swain
    Mack Swain was an American silent film actor and comedian best known for his frequent collaborations with Charlie Chaplin and his roles in early slapstick comedies.
  • 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: Herb Jeffries
Triple: [Herb, usedBy, Herb Jeffries]
Generated description
Herb Jeffries was an American jazz and popular music singer and actor, best known as the “Bronze Buckaroo” for his pioneering roles in all-Black Western films and as a vocalist with Duke Ellington’s orchestra.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herb Jeffries
Target entity description: Herb Jeffries was an American jazz and popular music singer and actor, best known as the “Bronze Buckaroo” for his pioneering roles in all-Black Western films and as a vocalist with Duke Ellington’s orchestra.
  • A. Nelson Eddy
    Nelson Eddy was a popular American baritone singer and film actor best known for his musical films of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly his collaborations with Jeanette MacDonald.
  • B. Leroy McClain
    Leroy McClain is a British-American actor known for his work in television, film, and theater, including his role as Shy Baldwin in *The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel*.
  • C. Otto Hunte
    Otto Hunte was a prominent German film art director and production designer best known for his influential work on classic Weimar-era films, including Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.
  • D. Roy Harlow
    Roy Harlow was the husband of silent film actress Marie Mosquini, known primarily in relation to her career in early American cinema.
  • E. Mack Swain
    Mack Swain was an American silent film actor and comedian best known for his frequent collaborations with Charlie Chaplin and his roles in early slapstick comedies.
  • 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_69d85a103d9081908c1ea6c4c73ac8e3 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e03682ea488190ac82fdbd0e855d34 completed April 16, 2026, 1:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69feef7f2fc08190937226dad5fdc9c6 completed May 9, 2026, 8:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fef20cdf108190a871a862187b692d completed May 9, 2026, 8:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fef2763790819093f76786c5be01df completed May 9, 2026, 8:38 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:15 a.m.