Triple

T16132990
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tommy Boyce E391450 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Sidney Thomas Boyce
Sidney Thomas Boyce, better known as Tommy Boyce, was an American songwriter and musician famed for co-writing many of The Monkees’ biggest hits.
E1202641 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: Sidney Thomas Boyce | Statement: [Tommy Boyce, fullName, Sidney Thomas Boyce]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sidney Thomas Boyce
Context triple: [Tommy Boyce, fullName, Sidney Thomas Boyce]
  • A. Ernest E. Williams
    Ernest E. Williams was a zoologist and herpetologist known for his influential research on reptiles and amphibians, particularly lizards, and for his long tenure at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
  • B. William Morrant Baker
    William Morrant Baker was a 19th-century English surgeon and pathologist known for his contributions to neurology and orthopedics, including the description of Baker's cyst.
  • C. Robert Woodley Brown
    Robert Woodley Brown was an artist associated with the Cullercoats artist colony, a noted 19th-century community of painters on the northeast coast of England.
  • D. Eddie C. Thomas
    Eddie C. Thomas is the claimant whose religious-objection unemployment benefits dispute reached the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division.
  • E. Holton D. Robinson
    Holton D. Robinson was an American civil engineer noted for his work on major suspension bridges in the early 20th century.
  • 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: Sidney Thomas Boyce
Triple: [Tommy Boyce, fullName, Sidney Thomas Boyce]
Generated description
Sidney Thomas Boyce, better known as Tommy Boyce, was an American songwriter and musician famed for co-writing many of The Monkees’ biggest hits.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sidney Thomas Boyce
Target entity description: Sidney Thomas Boyce, better known as Tommy Boyce, was an American songwriter and musician famed for co-writing many of The Monkees’ biggest hits.
  • A. Ernest E. Williams
    Ernest E. Williams was a zoologist and herpetologist known for his influential research on reptiles and amphibians, particularly lizards, and for his long tenure at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
  • B. William Morrant Baker
    William Morrant Baker was a 19th-century English surgeon and pathologist known for his contributions to neurology and orthopedics, including the description of Baker's cyst.
  • C. Robert Woodley Brown
    Robert Woodley Brown was an artist associated with the Cullercoats artist colony, a noted 19th-century community of painters on the northeast coast of England.
  • D. Eddie C. Thomas
    Eddie C. Thomas is the claimant whose religious-objection unemployment benefits dispute reached the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division.
  • E. Holton D. Robinson
    Holton D. Robinson was an American civil engineer noted for his work on major suspension bridges in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69d87f1bb0988190b490d273dbf3fd03 completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e21a02e0048190b4e2c6ff434c2d7a completed April 17, 2026, 11:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a000ec7cc0881909685923113eaba25 completed May 10, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a000fbc8374819089ea5ecf06339d0c completed May 10, 2026, 4:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a001057f9088190925492033bcd4c8d completed May 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:01 a.m.