Triple

T18820151
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Japan (band) E460241 entity
Predicate associatedAct P37 FINISHED
Object Rain Tree Crow
Rain Tree Crow was a short-lived early-1990s project that reunited the members of the British art-pop band Japan to explore a more atmospheric, experimental sound.
 E1344016 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: Rain Tree Crow | Statement: [Japan (band), associatedAct, Rain Tree Crow]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Rain Tree Crow
Context triple: [Japan (band), associatedAct, Rain Tree Crow]
  • A. The Rain in the Trees
    The Rain in the Trees is a 1988 poetry collection by W. S. Merwin that reflects his deep ecological concerns and meditative, nature-focused lyricism.
  • B. Tree of Herons
    Tree of Herons is a large-scale mechanical art installation project in Nantes, France, featuring monumental, rideable mechanical creatures designed by the artists behind Les Machines de l’Île.
  • C. Firebirds
    Firebirds is the short name of the Flint Firebirds, a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League based in Flint, Michigan.
  • D. Firebirds
    Firebirds is the team name used by the Albany Firebirds, a professional arena football franchise.
  • E. Firebirds
    Firebirds is the athletics nickname for the sports teams representing Carthage College.
  • 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: Rain Tree Crow
Triple: [Japan (band), associatedAct, Rain Tree Crow]
Generated description
Rain Tree Crow was a short-lived early-1990s project that reunited the members of the British art-pop band Japan to explore a more atmospheric, experimental sound.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Rain Tree Crow
Target entity description: Rain Tree Crow was a short-lived early-1990s project that reunited the members of the British art-pop band Japan to explore a more atmospheric, experimental sound.
  • A. The Rain in the Trees
    The Rain in the Trees is a 1988 poetry collection by W. S. Merwin that reflects his deep ecological concerns and meditative, nature-focused lyricism.
  • B. Tree of Herons
    Tree of Herons is a large-scale mechanical art installation project in Nantes, France, featuring monumental, rideable mechanical creatures designed by the artists behind Les Machines de l’Île.
  • C. Firebirds
    Firebirds is the short name of the Flint Firebirds, a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League based in Flint, Michigan.
  • D. Firebirds
    Firebirds is the team name used by the Albany Firebirds, a professional arena football franchise.
  • E. Firebirds
    Firebirds is the athletics nickname for the sports teams representing Carthage College.
  • 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_69d8dcf94c288190a06dea029ae4b223 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5a6b9be988190b5e3804c39dc7dd9 completed April 20, 2026, 4:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a055bca90d481908e1633dc4eef476d completed May 14, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a055d68aa508190a2d3d4212aed4858 completed May 14, 2026, 5:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a055e1a22308190bb7f2337fabc5bdf completed May 14, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.