Triple

T18354525
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sun Ra E439754 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Herman Poole Blount
Herman Poole Blount is the birth name of Sun Ra, the influential American jazz composer, bandleader, and pioneer of Afrofuturism.
E1319939 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: Herman Poole Blount | Statement: [Sun Ra, birthName, Herman Poole Blount]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herman Poole Blount
Context triple: [Sun Ra, birthName, Herman Poole Blount]
  • A. Clarence Upson Young
    Clarence Upson Young was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s classic era, known for contributing to genre films including mystery and horror.
  • B. Blanton Collier
    Blanton Collier was an American football coach best known for leading the Cleveland Browns to sustained success in the 1960s, including an NFL championship.
  • C. Walker D. Hines
    Walker D. Hines was an American lawyer and government official who served as Director General of Railroads during the period of federal control of U.S. railroads in World War I.
  • D. Robert White Johnson
    Robert White Johnson is an American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing Celine Dion’s breakthrough English-language hit “Where Does My Heart Beat Now.”
  • E. LeRoy Pope Walker
    LeRoy Pope Walker was the first Confederate States Secretary of War, overseeing the Confederate war effort at the outset of the American Civil War.
  • 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: Herman Poole Blount
Triple: [Sun Ra, birthName, Herman Poole Blount]
Generated description
Herman Poole Blount is the birth name of Sun Ra, the influential American jazz composer, bandleader, and pioneer of Afrofuturism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herman Poole Blount
Target entity description: Herman Poole Blount is the birth name of Sun Ra, the influential American jazz composer, bandleader, and pioneer of Afrofuturism.
  • A. Clarence Upson Young
    Clarence Upson Young was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s classic era, known for contributing to genre films including mystery and horror.
  • B. Blanton Collier
    Blanton Collier was an American football coach best known for leading the Cleveland Browns to sustained success in the 1960s, including an NFL championship.
  • C. Walker D. Hines
    Walker D. Hines was an American lawyer and government official who served as Director General of Railroads during the period of federal control of U.S. railroads in World War I.
  • D. Robert White Johnson
    Robert White Johnson is an American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing Celine Dion’s breakthrough English-language hit “Where Does My Heart Beat Now.”
  • E. LeRoy Pope Walker
    LeRoy Pope Walker was the first Confederate States Secretary of War, overseeing the Confederate war effort at the outset of the American Civil War.
  • 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_69d8b918221c8190a9f7b563d64ac677 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e516d458148190849ed28fa90eb92b completed April 19, 2026, 5:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03cc2cf93081908604ad44ca963809 completed May 13, 2026, 12:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03cdf740508190a7c348490b279d0d completed May 13, 2026, 1:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03cf558f288190adab7db6ee6aa394 completed May 13, 2026, 1:09 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:37 a.m.