Triple

T1628348
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Video Killed the Radio Star E35197 entity
Predicate producer P490 FINISHED
Object Gary Langan
Gary Langan is a British recording engineer and record producer known for his work with The Buggles, Art of Noise, and numerous influential pop and rock artists.
 E197371 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: Gary Langan | Statement: [Video Killed the Radio Star, producer, Gary Langan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gary Langan
Context triple: [Video Killed the Radio Star, producer, Gary Langan]
  • A. Larry Daley
    Larry Daley is the bumbling yet good-hearted night guard protagonist of the "Night at the Museum" film series, known for dealing with museum exhibits that magically come to life.
  • B. Brad Daugherty
    Brad Daugherty is a former NBA center best known for his All-Star career with the Cleveland Cavaliers in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
  • C. Jon Bosak
    Jon Bosak is a computer scientist best known for leading the original XML specification effort at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which helped standardize data interchange on the web.
  • D. Gene Keady
    Gene Keady is a highly respected American college basketball coach best known for his long, successful tenure leading the Purdue Boilermakers.
  • E. Bryan Donovan
    Bryan Donovan is one of the children of American basketball coach Billy Donovan.
  • 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: Gary Langan
Triple: [Video Killed the Radio Star, producer, Gary Langan]
Generated description
Gary Langan is a British recording engineer and record producer known for his work with The Buggles, Art of Noise, and numerous influential pop and rock artists.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gary Langan
Target entity description: Gary Langan is a British recording engineer and record producer known for his work with The Buggles, Art of Noise, and numerous influential pop and rock artists.
  • A. Larry Daley
    Larry Daley is the bumbling yet good-hearted night guard protagonist of the "Night at the Museum" film series, known for dealing with museum exhibits that magically come to life.
  • B. Brad Daugherty
    Brad Daugherty is a former NBA center best known for his All-Star career with the Cleveland Cavaliers in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
  • C. Jon Bosak
    Jon Bosak is a computer scientist best known for leading the original XML specification effort at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which helped standardize data interchange on the web.
  • D. Gene Keady
    Gene Keady is a highly respected American college basketball coach best known for his long, successful tenure leading the Purdue Boilermakers.
  • E. Bryan Donovan
    Bryan Donovan is one of the children of American basketball coach Billy Donovan.
  • 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_69a886036bc081909ff5de16dbe5e8ea completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a909f257948190b3398fd6dc91f586 completed March 5, 2026, 4:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ada0c3111081909bb8e503e77351cf completed March 8, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ada4da6a988190847452139e1c210d completed March 8, 2026, 4:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ada55d96b88190a4a5c6973d69592d completed March 8, 2026, 4:35 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:28 p.m.