Triple

T21490040
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Side by Side E530212 entity
Predicate performer P1363 FINISHED
Object Les Spann
Les Spann was an American jazz guitarist and flutist known for his work in the late 1950s and 1960s with artists such as Dizzy Gillespie and Quincy Jones.
E1487488 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: Les Spann | Statement: [Side by Side, performer, Les Spann]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Les Spann
Context triple: [Side by Side, performer, Les Spann]
  • A. Jimmy Means
    Jimmy Means is a former American NASCAR driver and longtime team owner best known for his underdog presence in the Cup Series during the 1970s and 1980s.
  • B. Alvino Rey
    Alvino Rey was an American jazz and swing guitarist and bandleader, widely recognized as a pioneer of the electric guitar and pedal steel guitar in popular music.
  • C. Bobby Western
    Bobby Western is the introspective, haunted salvage diver who serves as the central protagonist of Cormac McCarthy’s novel *The Passenger*.
  • D. Jack Brag
    Jack Brag is a satirical novel by Theodore Hook that humorously portrays the pretensions and social climbing of its eponymous protagonist in early 19th-century English society.
  • E. Art Gilmore
    Art Gilmore was an American voice actor and announcer renowned for his distinctive narration in classic film noirs, newsreels, radio, and television programs.
  • 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: Les Spann
Triple: [Side by Side, performer, Les Spann]
Generated description
Les Spann was an American jazz guitarist and flutist known for his work in the late 1950s and 1960s with artists such as Dizzy Gillespie and Quincy Jones.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Les Spann
Target entity description: Les Spann was an American jazz guitarist and flutist known for his work in the late 1950s and 1960s with artists such as Dizzy Gillespie and Quincy Jones.
  • A. Jimmy Means
    Jimmy Means is a former American NASCAR driver and longtime team owner best known for his underdog presence in the Cup Series during the 1970s and 1980s.
  • B. Alvino Rey
    Alvino Rey was an American jazz and swing guitarist and bandleader, widely recognized as a pioneer of the electric guitar and pedal steel guitar in popular music.
  • C. Bobby Western
    Bobby Western is the introspective, haunted salvage diver who serves as the central protagonist of Cormac McCarthy’s novel *The Passenger*.
  • D. Jack Brag
    Jack Brag is a satirical novel by Theodore Hook that humorously portrays the pretensions and social climbing of its eponymous protagonist in early 19th-century English society.
  • E. Art Gilmore
    Art Gilmore was an American voice actor and announcer renowned for his distinctive narration in classic film noirs, newsreels, radio, and television programs.
  • 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_69e0c45acc3881908e38d3f28964152b completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e9ea39e73081908e8d14118f9d1e03 completed April 23, 2026, 9:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09e135d8988190aeacd46b575fef07 completed May 17, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09e1b800188190ba1e667a7c2f1c4e completed May 17, 2026, 3:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09e22dcac081909a02bbb3f74f42a9 completed May 17, 2026, 3:43 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:22 p.m.