Triple

T18170419
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ziggy Stardust E435009 entity
Predicate inspiredBy P9 FINISHED
Object Vince Taylor
Vince Taylor was a charismatic British rock and roll singer whose flamboyant persona and troubled life famously inspired David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust character.
 E1318606 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: Vince Taylor | Statement: [Ziggy Stardust, inspiredBy, Vince Taylor]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Vince Taylor
Context triple: [Ziggy Stardust, inspiredBy, Vince Taylor]
  • A. Vince Barnett
    Vince Barnett was an American character actor and former professional prankster known for his comic supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • B. Vince Evans
    Vince Evans is a former American football quarterback best known for his professional career in the NFL and USFL during the late 1970s and 1980s.
  • C. Vince Hawkins
    Vince Hawkins is a character from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, appearing in the Fourth Doctor serial "Horror of Fang Rock."
  • D. Vince McKewin
    Vince McKewin is a screenwriter best known for writing the sports comedy film "The Replacements."
  • E. Ken Taylor
    Ken Taylor was the Canadian ambassador to Iran who played a key role in secretly sheltering and helping American diplomats escape Tehran during the 1979–1980 hostage 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: Vince Taylor
Triple: [Ziggy Stardust, inspiredBy, Vince Taylor]
Generated description
Vince Taylor was a charismatic British rock and roll singer whose flamboyant persona and troubled life famously inspired David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust character.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Vince Taylor
Target entity description: Vince Taylor was a charismatic British rock and roll singer whose flamboyant persona and troubled life famously inspired David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust character.
  • A. Vince Barnett
    Vince Barnett was an American character actor and former professional prankster known for his comic supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • B. Vince Evans
    Vince Evans is a former American football quarterback best known for his professional career in the NFL and USFL during the late 1970s and 1980s.
  • C. Vince Hawkins
    Vince Hawkins is a character from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, appearing in the Fourth Doctor serial "Horror of Fang Rock."
  • D. Vince McKewin
    Vince McKewin is a screenwriter best known for writing the sports comedy film "The Replacements."
  • E. Ken Taylor
    Ken Taylor was the Canadian ambassador to Iran who played a key role in secretly sheltering and helping American diplomats escape Tehran during the 1979–1980 hostage crisis.
  • 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_69d8b90b7a188190b3fc7b8d4a6cd20a completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4df555af081908a2f12bce6a13f56 completed April 19, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03c4b073e88190ac09118311e57dd9 completed May 13, 2026, 12:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03c582c9fc8190a656bb9e5544b5cf completed May 13, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03c64c02288190903c7e9123ca5a79 completed May 13, 2026, 12:31 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:30 a.m.