Triple

T18888154
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Back Home Again in Indiana E462011 entity
Predicate lyricist P1360 FINISHED
Object Ballard MacDonald
Ballard MacDonald was an American lyricist best known for his popular songs from the early 20th-century Tin Pan Alley era.
E1348706 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: Ballard MacDonald | Statement: [Back Home Again in Indiana, lyricist, Ballard MacDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ballard MacDonald
Context triple: [Back Home Again in Indiana, lyricist, Ballard MacDonald]
  • A. William Lethaby
    William Lethaby was a prominent British architect, designer, and theorist associated with the Arts and Crafts movement and influential in the development of modern architectural education.
  • B. Harry E. Clarke
    Harry E. Clarke was an American lawyer who served on the defense team for Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita during his post–World War II war crimes trial.
  • C. Archibald Knox
    Archibald Knox was a pioneering Manx designer and artist whose innovative metalwork, jewelry, and graphic designs became iconic within the Celtic Revival and early 20th-century Arts and Crafts movements.
  • D. A. J. Casson
    A. J. Casson was a Canadian painter renowned for his stylized depictions of Ontario landscapes and small towns, and for being one of the later members of the influential Group of Seven.
  • E. Robert Lorimer
    Robert Lorimer was a prominent early 20th-century Scottish architect and designer known for his refined restoration work and contributions to the Arts and Crafts movement.
  • 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: Ballard MacDonald
Triple: [Back Home Again in Indiana, lyricist, Ballard MacDonald]
Generated description
Ballard MacDonald was an American lyricist best known for his popular songs from the early 20th-century Tin Pan Alley era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ballard MacDonald
Target entity description: Ballard MacDonald was an American lyricist best known for his popular songs from the early 20th-century Tin Pan Alley era.
  • A. William Lethaby
    William Lethaby was a prominent British architect, designer, and theorist associated with the Arts and Crafts movement and influential in the development of modern architectural education.
  • B. Harry E. Clarke
    Harry E. Clarke was an American lawyer who served on the defense team for Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita during his post–World War II war crimes trial.
  • C. Archibald Knox
    Archibald Knox was a pioneering Manx designer and artist whose innovative metalwork, jewelry, and graphic designs became iconic within the Celtic Revival and early 20th-century Arts and Crafts movements.
  • D. A. J. Casson
    A. J. Casson was a Canadian painter renowned for his stylized depictions of Ontario landscapes and small towns, and for being one of the later members of the influential Group of Seven.
  • E. Robert Lorimer
    Robert Lorimer was a prominent early 20th-century Scottish architect and designer known for his refined restoration work and contributions to the Arts and Crafts movement.
  • 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_69d8dcfc3430819095ee6fc0eb4c06a5 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5c478d8c481909291e7c471e5095a completed April 20, 2026, 6:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0582b5539881909838ca1e410f22f8 completed May 14, 2026, 8:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0587f71ac88190b4abc38418c0347f completed May 14, 2026, 8:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0588880e60819084ecf94861278ebf completed May 14, 2026, 8:32 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:58 a.m.