Triple

T20267102
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards E498996 entity
Predicate featuresMusician P20942 FINISHED
Object Allen Whitman
Allen Whitman is a bassist best known for his work with the instrumental rock band The Mermen and for contributing to Joe Satriani’s album "Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards."
E1422561 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: Allen Whitman | Statement: [Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards, featuresMusician, Allen Whitman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allen Whitman
Context triple: [Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards, featuresMusician, Allen Whitman]
  • A. George Whitsell
    George Whitsell is an American rock musician and guitarist best known for his work with the band Crazy Horse.
  • B. William W. Kirkland
    William W. Kirkland was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War who led infantry brigades in several major engagements.
  • C. Arthur Lyman
    Arthur Lyman was an American jazz vibraphonist and bandleader best known for popularizing the exotica music style in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • D. Hiram Blanchard
    Hiram Blanchard was a 19th-century Canadian lawyer and politician who became the inaugural premier of Nova Scotia following Canadian Confederation.
  • E. James Whitney
    James Whitney was a Canadian lawyer and Conservative politician who served as the sixth premier of Ontario from 1905 to 1914.
  • 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: Allen Whitman
Triple: [Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards, featuresMusician, Allen Whitman]
Generated description
Allen Whitman is a bassist best known for his work with the instrumental rock band The Mermen and for contributing to Joe Satriani’s album "Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allen Whitman
Target entity description: Allen Whitman is a bassist best known for his work with the instrumental rock band The Mermen and for contributing to Joe Satriani’s album "Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards."
  • A. George Whitsell
    George Whitsell is an American rock musician and guitarist best known for his work with the band Crazy Horse.
  • B. William W. Kirkland
    William W. Kirkland was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War who led infantry brigades in several major engagements.
  • C. Arthur Lyman
    Arthur Lyman was an American jazz vibraphonist and bandleader best known for popularizing the exotica music style in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • D. Hiram Blanchard
    Hiram Blanchard was a 19th-century Canadian lawyer and politician who became the inaugural premier of Nova Scotia following Canadian Confederation.
  • E. James Whitney
    James Whitney was a Canadian lawyer and Conservative politician who served as the sixth premier of Ontario from 1905 to 1914.
  • 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_69da6275fa6c8190952924930adee150 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e674d001f081908910eedd262ae13a completed April 20, 2026, 6:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a085a1b2c488190988292fdbc6f3f3b completed May 16, 2026, 11:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a085aecd7e48190a82b7cc8ac9f53ba completed May 16, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a085baddf1c8190ac7444a8e1d5128f completed May 16, 2026, 11:57 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:42 p.m.