Triple

T21242475
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Don Robertson (composer) E523510 entity
Predicate coWroteWith P2389 FINISHED
Object Howard Barnes
Howard Barnes was a lyricist and songwriter known for collaborating with composer Don Robertson on popular mid-20th-century songs.
E1475671 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: Howard Barnes | Statement: [Don Robertson (composer), coWroteWith, Howard Barnes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Barnes
Context triple: [Don Robertson (composer), coWroteWith, Howard Barnes]
  • A. Bruce Barnes
    Bruce Barnes is a central Christian pastor-turned-spiritual leader in the apocalyptic "Left Behind" novel series, guiding survivors through the tribulation period.
  • B. Frank Barnes
    Frank Barnes is the veteran railroad engineer portrayed by Denzel Washington in the 2010 action thriller film "Unstoppable," where he helps avert disaster by stopping a runaway train.
  • C. Steven Barnes
    Steven Barnes is an American science fiction author and screenwriter known for his collaborations with Larry Niven and his works exploring race, history, and speculative futures.
  • D. Gene Harrogate
    Gene Harrogate is a comic, hapless young drifter in Cormac McCarthy’s novel "Suttree," known for his bizarre schemes and naive optimism amid the book’s grim setting.
  • E. Leo Barnes
    Leo Barnes is a former police sergeant turned security chief who becomes a key resistance figure fighting to end the annual Purge in the dystopian horror-thriller film series.
  • 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: Howard Barnes
Triple: [Don Robertson (composer), coWroteWith, Howard Barnes]
Generated description
Howard Barnes was a lyricist and songwriter known for collaborating with composer Don Robertson on popular mid-20th-century songs.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Barnes
Target entity description: Howard Barnes was a lyricist and songwriter known for collaborating with composer Don Robertson on popular mid-20th-century songs.
  • A. Bruce Barnes
    Bruce Barnes is a central Christian pastor-turned-spiritual leader in the apocalyptic "Left Behind" novel series, guiding survivors through the tribulation period.
  • B. Frank Barnes
    Frank Barnes is the veteran railroad engineer portrayed by Denzel Washington in the 2010 action thriller film "Unstoppable," where he helps avert disaster by stopping a runaway train.
  • C. Steven Barnes
    Steven Barnes is an American science fiction author and screenwriter known for his collaborations with Larry Niven and his works exploring race, history, and speculative futures.
  • D. Gene Harrogate
    Gene Harrogate is a comic, hapless young drifter in Cormac McCarthy’s novel "Suttree," known for his bizarre schemes and naive optimism amid the book’s grim setting.
  • E. Leo Barnes
    Leo Barnes is a former police sergeant turned security chief who becomes a key resistance figure fighting to end the annual Purge in the dystopian horror-thriller film series.
  • 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_69e0b513b89c81908b27147e91368db2 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e7352453f88190b38de7b0108c683a completed April 21, 2026, 8:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0997f4dfd4819096d894c67310fc0c completed May 17, 2026, 10:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09986fabd08190b2b017aceb9827f6 completed May 17, 2026, 10:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0998e8f2488190800c67f13fb6b1a4 completed May 17, 2026, 10:31 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 3:47 p.m.