Triple

T20117296
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Yes! We Have No Bananas E490499 entity
Predicate lyricist P1360 FINISHED
Object Irving Cohn
Irving Cohn was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the novelty hit song "Yes! We Have No Bananas."
E1411070 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: Irving Cohn | Statement: [Yes! We Have No Bananas, lyricist, Irving Cohn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Irving Cohn
Context triple: [Yes! We Have No Bananas, lyricist, Irving Cohn]
  • A. Jack Cohn
    Jack Cohn was an American film executive and producer who co-founded Columbia Pictures and helped shape the early Hollywood studio system.
  • B. Edgar Lobel
    Edgar Lobel was a prominent classical scholar and papyrologist known for his influential work on Greek literary papyri and fragmentary texts.
  • C. Irving Pincus
    Irving Pincus was an American television writer and producer best known for creating the popular 1950s–60s sitcom "The Real McCoys."
  • D. Irwin Martin Cohn
    Irwin Martin Cohn, better known as Quinn Martin, was a prominent American television producer famed for creating and producing numerous successful crime and drama series during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. Howard E. Koch
    Howard E. Koch was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood films such as "Casablanca" and for his involvement in the infamous 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast.
  • 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: Irving Cohn
Triple: [Yes! We Have No Bananas, lyricist, Irving Cohn]
Generated description
Irving Cohn was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the novelty hit song "Yes! We Have No Bananas."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Irving Cohn
Target entity description: Irving Cohn was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the novelty hit song "Yes! We Have No Bananas."
  • A. Jack Cohn
    Jack Cohn was an American film executive and producer who co-founded Columbia Pictures and helped shape the early Hollywood studio system.
  • B. Edgar Lobel
    Edgar Lobel was a prominent classical scholar and papyrologist known for his influential work on Greek literary papyri and fragmentary texts.
  • C. Irving Pincus
    Irving Pincus was an American television writer and producer best known for creating the popular 1950s–60s sitcom "The Real McCoys."
  • D. Irwin Martin Cohn
    Irwin Martin Cohn, better known as Quinn Martin, was a prominent American television producer famed for creating and producing numerous successful crime and drama series during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. Howard E. Koch
    Howard E. Koch was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood films such as "Casablanca" and for his involvement in the infamous 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast.
  • 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_69da62636cc08190982cc71733a17b8d completed April 11, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6673ab4e08190b76ec742605e103b completed April 20, 2026, 5:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08271de03c81908f669f712ca1233a completed May 16, 2026, 8:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08280f9e70819091682323b55ca855 completed May 16, 2026, 8:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08288d98fc8190a146f43a027682f0 completed May 16, 2026, 8:19 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:30 p.m.