Triple

T16160239
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr. E392157 entity
Predicate nickname P55 FINISHED
Object Sonny
Sonny is the nickname of Manley Lanier Carter Jr., an American physician, Navy officer, and NASA astronaut.
E1198089 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: Sonny | Statement: [Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr., nickname, Sonny]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sonny
Context triple: [Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr., nickname, Sonny]
  • A. Sonny
    Sonny is a witty, socially conscious teenager from the musical "In the Heights," known as Usnavi de la Vega’s younger cousin and bodega assistant in Washington Heights.
  • B. Sonny
    Sonny is the nickname of Sonny Siebert, a former Major League Baseball pitcher known for his successful career in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. Sonny
    Sonny is an American former sports marketing executive best known for his pioneering work in basketball shoe endorsement deals, including helping launch Nike’s partnership with Michael Jordan.
  • D. Sonny
    Sonny is the nickname of Albert Francis Capone, the only son of notorious American gangster Al Capone.
  • E. Sonny
    Sonny is a character in the 2018 American drama film "Arizona," which blends dark comedy with thriller elements set against the backdrop of the 2009 housing crisis.
  • 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: Sonny
Triple: [Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr., nickname, Sonny]
Generated description
Sonny is the nickname of Manley Lanier Carter Jr., an American physician, Navy officer, and NASA astronaut.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sonny
Target entity description: Sonny is the nickname of Manley Lanier Carter Jr., an American physician, Navy officer, and NASA astronaut.
  • A. Sonny
    Sonny is the nickname of Sonny Siebert, a former Major League Baseball pitcher known for his successful career in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • B. Sonny
    Sonny is the nickname of Sonny Jurgensen, a Hall of Fame American football quarterback best known for his prolific passing career with the Washington Redskins.
  • C. Sonny
    Sonny is the nickname of Albert Francis Capone, the only son of notorious American gangster Al Capone.
  • D. Sonny
    Sonny was the ring nickname of Charles "Sonny" Liston, the fearsome American heavyweight boxing champion of the early 1960s.
  • E. Sonny
    Sonny was an American singer, songwriter, producer, and politician best known as half of the pop duo Sonny & Cher.
  • 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_69d87f1d32208190942e4e499a80c18c completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e21e5de3c481908eb5cdf194a47ff7 completed April 17, 2026, 11:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fff7b33f3481909fe856b8be7d9bcd completed May 10, 2026, 3:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fff86a556c819096bc008e1ca76e8c completed May 10, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fff926120081909f1042bf3a16ea10 completed May 10, 2026, 3:19 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:01 a.m.