Triple

T2244576
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shotgun Willie E49472 entity
Predicate producer P490 FINISHED
Object Tom Dowd
Tom Dowd was a pioneering American recording engineer and producer renowned for his innovative studio techniques and work with major artists across jazz, rock, and soul music.
 E247092 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: Tom Dowd | Statement: [Shotgun Willie, producer, Tom Dowd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tom Dowd
Context triple: [Shotgun Willie, producer, Tom Dowd]
  • A. Bob Thiele
    Bob Thiele was an American record producer and songwriter best known for co-writing the classic Louis Armstrong hit "What a Wonderful World."
  • B. Walter Murphy
    Walter Murphy is an American composer, arranger, and pianist best known for his disco-era hit "A Fifth of Beethoven" and for scoring numerous film and television projects, including collaborations with Seth MacFarlane.
  • C. Don Hewitt
    Don Hewitt was an American television news producer best known for pioneering modern TV newsmagazine journalism.
  • D. Gene Mauch
    Gene Mauch was a longtime Major League Baseball manager known for his strategic, small-ball style and for leading several teams, including the California Angels and Montreal Expos, without ever reaching the World Series.
  • E. Byron Haskin
    Byron Haskin was an American cinematographer and film director best known for his pioneering special effects work and for directing the 1953 science fiction classic "The War of the Worlds."
  • 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: Tom Dowd
Triple: [Shotgun Willie, producer, Tom Dowd]
Generated description
Tom Dowd was a pioneering American recording engineer and producer renowned for his innovative studio techniques and work with major artists across jazz, rock, and soul music.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tom Dowd
Target entity description: Tom Dowd was a pioneering American recording engineer and producer renowned for his innovative studio techniques and work with major artists across jazz, rock, and soul music.
  • A. Bob Thiele
    Bob Thiele was an American record producer and songwriter best known for co-writing the classic Louis Armstrong hit "What a Wonderful World."
  • B. Walter Murphy
    Walter Murphy is an American composer, arranger, and pianist best known for his disco-era hit "A Fifth of Beethoven" and for scoring numerous film and television projects, including collaborations with Seth MacFarlane.
  • C. Don Hewitt
    Don Hewitt was an American television news producer best known for pioneering modern TV newsmagazine journalism.
  • D. Gene Mauch
    Gene Mauch was a longtime Major League Baseball manager known for his strategic, small-ball style and for leading several teams, including the California Angels and Montreal Expos, without ever reaching the World Series.
  • E. Byron Haskin
    Byron Haskin was an American cinematographer and film director best known for his pioneering special effects work and for directing the 1953 science fiction classic "The War of the Worlds."
  • 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_69a88aa979788190ad6500f1d8eee2fc completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc0e8d5648190915ff689c7ca42bc completed March 7, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6b10c38c8190af7d6d99f9377df1 completed March 9, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6bbdef14819084b96389435ca080 completed March 9, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6c2cfac48190b0425088e79cd122 completed March 9, 2026, 6:43 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.