Triple

T20042809
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Descendents E497470 entity
Predicate formerMember P1168 FINISHED
Object David Smalley
David Smalley is an American punk rock vocalist best known for fronting influential bands such as DYS, Dag Nasty, ALL, and Down by Law.
E1408309 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: David Smalley | Statement: [Descendents, formerMember, David Smalley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Smalley
Context triple: [Descendents, formerMember, David Smalley]
  • A. Richard Smalley
    Richard Smalley was an American chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering fullerenes, a new form of carbon.
  • B. Robert Curl
    Robert Curl was an American chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering buckminsterfullerene (C60), a landmark finding in the field of nanotechnology and carbon chemistry.
  • C. James M. Tour
    James M. Tour is an American chemist and nanotechnology researcher known for his pioneering work in molecular electronics, nanocars, and carbon-based materials.
  • D. Harry Kroto
    Harry Kroto was a British chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering the carbon molecule buckminsterfullerene (C60), a key advance in the field of nanotechnology and carbon chemistry.
  • E. Nicholas J. Turro
    Nicholas J. Turro was a prominent American chemist renowned for his pioneering contributions to organic photochemistry and molecular photophysics.
  • 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: David Smalley
Triple: [Descendents, formerMember, David Smalley]
Generated description
David Smalley is an American punk rock vocalist best known for fronting influential bands such as DYS, Dag Nasty, ALL, and Down by Law.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Smalley
Target entity description: David Smalley is an American punk rock vocalist best known for fronting influential bands such as DYS, Dag Nasty, ALL, and Down by Law.
  • A. Richard Smalley
    Richard Smalley was an American chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering fullerenes, a new form of carbon.
  • B. Robert Curl
    Robert Curl was an American chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering buckminsterfullerene (C60), a landmark finding in the field of nanotechnology and carbon chemistry.
  • C. James M. Tour
    James M. Tour is an American chemist and nanotechnology researcher known for his pioneering work in molecular electronics, nanocars, and carbon-based materials.
  • D. Harry Kroto
    Harry Kroto was a British chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering the carbon molecule buckminsterfullerene (C60), a key advance in the field of nanotechnology and carbon chemistry.
  • E. Nicholas J. Turro
    Nicholas J. Turro was a prominent American chemist renowned for his pioneering contributions to organic photochemistry and molecular photophysics.
  • 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_69da627278c88190babe4297a9df1236 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e662ec9ae0819097032ff50d6215c2 completed April 20, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0815feaf408190adccfa72b51a5cef completed May 16, 2026, 7 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0816ee85188190906ba3577cbe8e3e completed May 16, 2026, 7:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a081753efc88190b3fa2ea810f93220 completed May 16, 2026, 7:05 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 3:37 p.m.