Triple

T18359641
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nicky Hopkins E439880 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Nicholas Christian Hopkins
Nicholas Christian Hopkins was an English pianist and session musician renowned for his work with major rock bands and artists in the 1960s and 1970s, including The Rolling Stones, The Who, and The Kinks.
E1320201 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: Nicholas Christian Hopkins | Statement: [Nicky Hopkins, birthName, Nicholas Christian Hopkins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Christian Hopkins
Context triple: [Nicky Hopkins, birthName, Nicholas Christian Hopkins]
  • A. Michael Hopkinson
    Michael Hopkinson is a historian known for his work on modern Irish history, particularly the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War.
  • B. Nicholas Wayman-Harris
    Nicholas Wayman-Harris is a film editor known for his work on the science fiction thriller "Skyline."
  • C. Nicholas Hannen
    Nicholas Hannen was a British stage and film actor known for his classical performances, including roles in mid-20th-century Shakespearean adaptations.
  • D. Nicholas Lucas
    Nicholas Lucas was an early colonial leader known for helping establish the West Jersey settlement in what is now New Jersey.
  • E. Nicholas Johnston
    Nicholas Johnston is a friend of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, after whom Johnson’s son Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson was partly named.
  • 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: Nicholas Christian Hopkins
Triple: [Nicky Hopkins, birthName, Nicholas Christian Hopkins]
Generated description
Nicholas Christian Hopkins was an English pianist and session musician renowned for his work with major rock bands and artists in the 1960s and 1970s, including The Rolling Stones, The Who, and The Kinks.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Christian Hopkins
Target entity description: Nicholas Christian Hopkins was an English pianist and session musician renowned for his work with major rock bands and artists in the 1960s and 1970s, including The Rolling Stones, The Who, and The Kinks.
  • A. Michael Hopkinson
    Michael Hopkinson is a historian known for his work on modern Irish history, particularly the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War.
  • B. Nicholas Wayman-Harris
    Nicholas Wayman-Harris is a film editor known for his work on the science fiction thriller "Skyline."
  • C. Nicholas Hannen
    Nicholas Hannen was a British stage and film actor known for his classical performances, including roles in mid-20th-century Shakespearean adaptations.
  • D. Nicholas Lucas
    Nicholas Lucas was an early colonial leader known for helping establish the West Jersey settlement in what is now New Jersey.
  • E. Nicholas Johnston
    Nicholas Johnston is a friend of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, after whom Johnson’s son Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson was partly named.
  • 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_69e516d9dba8819088c5d772e3ee670d completed April 19, 2026, 5:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03cc328b108190b28416eb5bfb0b4f completed May 13, 2026, 12:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03d2a6e7648190881a140d42ae7e86 completed May 13, 2026, 1:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03d40ba5ec81909371d4134a88101d completed May 13, 2026, 1:29 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:37 a.m.