Triple

T18422110
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Shadows E442047 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object The Drifters
The Drifters were a British instrumental rock group, better known as The Shadows, who gained fame in the late 1950s and 1960s as Cliff Richard’s backing band and for their own influential guitar-driven hits.
E78016 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: The Drifters | Statement: [The Shadows, alsoKnownAs, The Drifters]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Drifters
Context triple: [The Shadows, alsoKnownAs, The Drifters]
  • A. The Drifters
    The Drifters are an American doo-wop and R&B vocal group famed for classic hits like "Under the Boardwalk" and "Save the Last Dance for Me."
  • B. The Coasters
    The Coasters were a pioneering American rhythm and blues/rock and roll vocal group best known for their humorous, narrative-driven hits like "Yakety Yak" and "Charlie Brown" in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • C. The Platters
    The Platters were a pioneering American vocal group of the 1950s and 1960s, best known for their smooth harmonies and classic hits like "Only You" and "The Great Pretender."
  • D. The Clovers
    The Clovers were a popular American R&B and doo-wop vocal group of the 1950s known for hits like "Love Potion No. 9" and their influential harmonies.
  • E. Dion and the Belmonts
    Dion and the Belmonts were a popular late-1950s and early-1960s American doo-wop and rock and roll vocal group known for hits like "A Teenager in Love" and "Runaround Sue."
  • 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: The Drifters
Triple: [The Shadows, alsoKnownAs, The Drifters]
Generated description
The Drifters were a British instrumental rock group, better known as The Shadows, who gained fame in the late 1950s and 1960s as Cliff Richard’s backing band and for their own influential guitar-driven hits.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Drifters
Target entity description: The Drifters were a British instrumental rock group, better known as The Shadows, who gained fame in the late 1950s and 1960s as Cliff Richard’s backing band and for their own influential guitar-driven hits.
  • A. The Drifters chosen
    The Drifters are an American doo-wop and R&B vocal group famed for classic hits like "Under the Boardwalk" and "Save the Last Dance for Me."
  • B. The Coasters
    The Coasters were a pioneering American rhythm and blues/rock and roll vocal group best known for their humorous, narrative-driven hits like "Yakety Yak" and "Charlie Brown" in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • C. The Platters
    The Platters were a pioneering American vocal group of the 1950s and 1960s, best known for their smooth harmonies and classic hits like "Only You" and "The Great Pretender."
  • D. The Clovers
    The Clovers were a popular American R&B and doo-wop vocal group of the 1950s known for hits like "Love Potion No. 9" and their influential harmonies.
  • E. Dion and the Belmonts
    Dion and the Belmonts were a popular late-1950s and early-1960s American doo-wop and rock and roll vocal group known for hits like "A Teenager in Love" and "Runaround Sue."
  • F. None of above.

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_69d8b9eb8a508190a942fd75ebd8b1dc completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e51a2c98b0819082672174bf69b88c completed April 19, 2026, 6:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03f0a7e788819080ab4b25f489726e completed May 13, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03f1e4007c8190b84dbbf7e3afcc80 completed May 13, 2026, 3:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03f25e93bc8190910ce6037dc1bcea completed May 13, 2026, 3:39 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:47 a.m.