Triple

T18505532
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Le Freak E452187 entity
Predicate hasNotableVocalist P17435 FINISHED
Object Fonzi Thornton
Fonzi Thornton is an American R&B and soul singer best known for his extensive session and backing vocal work with artists like Chic, Luther Vandross, and many other prominent acts of the late 1970s and 1980s.
E1329759 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: Fonzi Thornton | Statement: [Le Freak, hasNotableVocalist, Fonzi Thornton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fonzi Thornton
Context triple: [Le Freak, hasNotableVocalist, Fonzi Thornton]
  • A. Mark Frazier
    Mark Frazier is a central protagonist in John Grisham’s legal thriller "The Rooster Bar," depicted as a struggling law student entangled in a predatory for-profit law school scheme.
  • B. Scott Chestnut
    Scott Chestnut is a film editor best known for his work on the World War II drama "The Great Raid."
  • C. Tony Delk
    Tony Delk is a former American basketball guard best known for starring at the University of Kentucky in the mid-1990s and leading the Wildcats to the 1996 NCAA championship before playing in the NBA.
  • D. Richie Stotts
    Richie Stotts is an American guitarist best known as a founding member of the shock rock band Plasmatics.
  • E. Marquis Frazier
    Marquis Frazier is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Frazier.
  • 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: Fonzi Thornton
Triple: [Le Freak, hasNotableVocalist, Fonzi Thornton]
Generated description
Fonzi Thornton is an American R&B and soul singer best known for his extensive session and backing vocal work with artists like Chic, Luther Vandross, and many other prominent acts of the late 1970s and 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fonzi Thornton
Target entity description: Fonzi Thornton is an American R&B and soul singer best known for his extensive session and backing vocal work with artists like Chic, Luther Vandross, and many other prominent acts of the late 1970s and 1980s.
  • A. Mark Frazier
    Mark Frazier is a central protagonist in John Grisham’s legal thriller "The Rooster Bar," depicted as a struggling law student entangled in a predatory for-profit law school scheme.
  • B. Scott Chestnut
    Scott Chestnut is a film editor best known for his work on the World War II drama "The Great Raid."
  • C. Tony Delk
    Tony Delk is a former American basketball guard best known for starring at the University of Kentucky in the mid-1990s and leading the Wildcats to the 1996 NCAA championship before playing in the NBA.
  • D. Richie Stotts
    Richie Stotts is an American guitarist best known as a founding member of the shock rock band Plasmatics.
  • E. Marquis Frazier
    Marquis Frazier is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Frazier.
  • 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_69d8d386df84819092355ebb260d848e completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e53341b6c48190b7da42f5df923e81 completed April 19, 2026, 7:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0491672dc08190a09c74cb4e6cf06a completed May 13, 2026, 2:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a04966f7b488190881d28e858ed7908 completed May 13, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0496ec05608190bfd16a0a36735255 completed May 13, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:36 a.m.