Triple

T18055667
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Top of the Pops E432031 entity
Predicate notablePresenter P46402 FINISHED
Object Dave Lee Travis
Dave Lee Travis is a British radio and television presenter best known for his long-running work on BBC Radio 1 and appearances on music shows in the 1970s and 1980s.
E1302391 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: Dave Lee Travis | Statement: [Top of the Pops, notablePresenter, Dave Lee Travis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dave Lee Travis
Context triple: [Top of the Pops, notablePresenter, Dave Lee Travis]
  • A. Dan McCarroll
    Dan McCarroll is an American music executive, producer, and former drummer known for his leadership roles at major record labels such as Capitol Records and Warner Bros. Records.
  • B. Dustin Weaver
    Dustin Weaver is an American comic book artist known for his detailed, dynamic work on major Marvel titles and creator-owned projects.
  • C. Christopher McDonald
    Christopher McDonald is an American character actor best known for his frequent supporting roles in film and television, including his iconic turn as Shooter McGavin in the comedy "Happy Gilmore."
  • D. Ross Lockhart
    Ross Lockhart is an American editor and publisher best known as the founder of the independent horror and speculative fiction press Word Horde.
  • E. Ross Lockhart
    Ross Lockhart is the wealthy, emotionally distant father at the center of Don DeLillo’s novel "Zero K," whose involvement with a cryogenic preservation facility drives the book’s exploration of mortality and technology.
  • 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: Dave Lee Travis
Triple: [Top of the Pops, notablePresenter, Dave Lee Travis]
Generated description
Dave Lee Travis is a British radio and television presenter best known for his long-running work on BBC Radio 1 and appearances on music shows in the 1970s and 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dave Lee Travis
Target entity description: Dave Lee Travis is a British radio and television presenter best known for his long-running work on BBC Radio 1 and appearances on music shows in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • A. Dan McCarroll
    Dan McCarroll is an American music executive, producer, and former drummer known for his leadership roles at major record labels such as Capitol Records and Warner Bros. Records.
  • B. Dustin Weaver
    Dustin Weaver is an American comic book artist known for his detailed, dynamic work on major Marvel titles and creator-owned projects.
  • C. Christopher McDonald
    Christopher McDonald is an American character actor best known for his frequent supporting roles in film and television, including his iconic turn as Shooter McGavin in the comedy "Happy Gilmore."
  • D. Ross Lockhart
    Ross Lockhart is an American editor and publisher best known as the founder of the independent horror and speculative fiction press Word Horde.
  • E. Ross Lockhart
    Ross Lockhart is the wealthy, emotionally distant father at the center of Don DeLillo’s novel "Zero K," whose involvement with a cryogenic preservation facility drives the book’s exploration of mortality and technology.
  • 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_69d8b906482481908183315b9ecf9994 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4c101dfb081908dc66f4b4967d8c7 completed April 19, 2026, 11:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0349c22bbc8190956dfc86918af8ec completed May 12, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a034b2fc4d4819091f89ff5ce327c5a completed May 12, 2026, 3:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a034bd042f4819091641860ee742dc6 completed May 12, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:26 a.m.