Triple

T20122752
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tim Armstrong E490653 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Timothy Ross Armstrong
Timothy Ross Armstrong is an American musician best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Rancid and a prominent figure in the 1990s punk revival.
E1413067 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: Timothy Ross Armstrong | Statement: [Tim Armstrong, birthName, Timothy Ross Armstrong]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Timothy Ross Armstrong
Context triple: [Tim Armstrong, birthName, Timothy Ross Armstrong]
  • A. James Arnold Ross Jr.
    James Arnold Ross Jr. is the central character in Upton Sinclair’s novel "Oil!", a young man whose coming-of-age unfolds amid the corruption and upheaval of the early 20th-century California oil boom.
  • B. Timothy Rivers
    Timothy Rivers is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Rivers.
  • C. Michael Pitts
    Michael Pitts is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals, including figures in fields such as politics, religion, and entertainment.
  • D. James Clemons
    James Clemons is an individual whose specific public notability or distinguishing background is not clearly identifiable from the given information.
  • E. Timothy Black
    Timothy Black is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the given information.
  • 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: Timothy Ross Armstrong
Triple: [Tim Armstrong, birthName, Timothy Ross Armstrong]
Generated description
Timothy Ross Armstrong is an American musician best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Rancid and a prominent figure in the 1990s punk revival.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Timothy Ross Armstrong
Target entity description: Timothy Ross Armstrong is an American musician best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Rancid and a prominent figure in the 1990s punk revival.
  • A. James Arnold Ross Jr.
    James Arnold Ross Jr. is the central character in Upton Sinclair’s novel "Oil!", a young man whose coming-of-age unfolds amid the corruption and upheaval of the early 20th-century California oil boom.
  • B. Timothy Rivers
    Timothy Rivers is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Rivers.
  • C. Michael Pitts
    Michael Pitts is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals, including figures in fields such as politics, religion, and entertainment.
  • D. James Clemons
    James Clemons is an individual whose specific public notability or distinguishing background is not clearly identifiable from the given information.
  • E. Timothy Black
    Timothy Black is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the given information.
  • 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_69da62651a0c8190a3e05e95e056a66b completed April 11, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6673f5b4c8190bf9fb5f4e6b6a452 completed April 20, 2026, 5:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a082dd7d19481908fed99f3c37b91bf completed May 16, 2026, 8:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a082f03be608190a68d27656d33fe5e completed May 16, 2026, 8:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a082faf0ca48190a498079bda6fb96f completed May 16, 2026, 8:49 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:30 p.m.