Triple

T16374344
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Now He Sings, Now He Sobs E397643 entity
Predicate producer P490 FINISHED
Object Sonny Lester
Sonny Lester was an American jazz record producer and label founder known for his work with prominent artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
E1212172 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 Lester | Statement: [Now He Sings, Now He Sobs, producer, Sonny Lester]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sonny Lester
Context triple: [Now He Sings, Now He Sobs, producer, Sonny Lester]
  • A. Sonny Clark
    Sonny Clark was an influential American jazz pianist and composer known for his hard bop recordings in the 1950s, particularly on the Blue Note label.
  • B. Stanley Turrentine
    Stanley Turrentine was an American jazz tenor saxophonist known for his soulful tone and influential work in hard bop and soul jazz.
  • C. Bunk Johnson
    Bunk Johnson was an early New Orleans jazz trumpeter known for his influential yet under-recorded role in the development of traditional jazz and his later revival-era recordings in the 1940s.
  • D. Luther Henderson
    Luther Henderson was an American arranger, orchestrator, and composer renowned for his influential work on Broadway and in jazz, collaborating with major artists and productions throughout the mid-20th century.
  • E. Johnnie Johnson
    Johnnie Johnson was an influential American blues and rock and roll pianist best known for his long-time collaboration with Chuck Berry.
  • 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 Lester
Triple: [Now He Sings, Now He Sobs, producer, Sonny Lester]
Generated description
Sonny Lester was an American jazz record producer and label founder known for his work with prominent artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sonny Lester
Target entity description: Sonny Lester was an American jazz record producer and label founder known for his work with prominent artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • A. Sonny Clark
    Sonny Clark was an influential American jazz pianist and composer known for his hard bop recordings in the 1950s, particularly on the Blue Note label.
  • B. Stanley Turrentine
    Stanley Turrentine was an American jazz tenor saxophonist known for his soulful tone and influential work in hard bop and soul jazz.
  • C. Bunk Johnson
    Bunk Johnson was an early New Orleans jazz trumpeter known for his influential yet under-recorded role in the development of traditional jazz and his later revival-era recordings in the 1940s.
  • D. Luther Henderson
    Luther Henderson was an American arranger, orchestrator, and composer renowned for his influential work on Broadway and in jazz, collaborating with major artists and productions throughout the mid-20th century.
  • E. Johnnie Johnson
    Johnnie Johnson was an influential American blues and rock and roll pianist best known for his long-time collaboration with Chuck Berry.
  • 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_69d87f2778dc8190aa95c7572db127e6 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e319d6942081909616a2c6efee9967 completed April 18, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a003c522a7c8190a306b85354a087fd completed May 10, 2026, 8:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a003e77677c81908687df4f9c1c1bb8 completed May 10, 2026, 8:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a003f300e688190a12352fef2f801f9 completed May 10, 2026, 8:17 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:08 a.m.