Triple

T22802275
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McKinney's Cotton Pickers E564429 entity
Predicate roleOfMember P268 FINISHED
Object William McKinney was the bandleader and drummer
William McKinney was an American jazz drummer and bandleader best known for leading the influential 1920s and 1930s big band McKinney's Cotton Pickers.
 E1555921 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: William McKinney was the bandleader and drummer | Statement: [McKinney's Cotton Pickers, roleOfMember, William McKinney was the bandleader and drummer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William McKinney was the bandleader and drummer
Context triple: [McKinney's Cotton Pickers, roleOfMember, William McKinney was the bandleader and drummer]
  • A. Mack McKinney
    Mack McKinney is a music producer best known for his work on the television series "American Teen."
  • B. Al McKibbon trio (sideman)
    The Al McKibbon Trio (sideman) was a jazz ensemble led by bassist Al McKibbon, known for its classic hard bop and swing-oriented performances featuring prominent rhythm section players.
  • C. Milton Brown
    Milton Brown was an influential American bandleader and vocalist widely regarded as a pioneer of Western swing music in the 1930s.
  • D. Joe McKenzie
    Joe McKenzie is an entrepreneur best known as a founder of the global electronics manufacturing services company Flextronics International (now Flex Ltd.).
  • E. Chick Williams
    Chick Williams is a fictional character from the 1968 burlesque-themed comedy film "The Night They Raided Minsky's."
  • 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: William McKinney was the bandleader and drummer
Triple: [McKinney's Cotton Pickers, roleOfMember, William McKinney was the bandleader and drummer]
Generated description
William McKinney was an American jazz drummer and bandleader best known for leading the influential 1920s and 1930s big band McKinney's Cotton Pickers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William McKinney was the bandleader and drummer
Target entity description: William McKinney was an American jazz drummer and bandleader best known for leading the influential 1920s and 1930s big band McKinney's Cotton Pickers.
  • A. Mack McKinney
    Mack McKinney is a music producer best known for his work on the television series "American Teen."
  • B. Al McKibbon trio (sideman)
    The Al McKibbon Trio (sideman) was a jazz ensemble led by bassist Al McKibbon, known for its classic hard bop and swing-oriented performances featuring prominent rhythm section players.
  • C. Milton Brown
    Milton Brown was an influential American bandleader and vocalist widely regarded as a pioneer of Western swing music in the 1930s.
  • D. Joe McKenzie
    Joe McKenzie is an entrepreneur best known as a founder of the global electronics manufacturing services company Flextronics International (now Flex Ltd.).
  • E. Chick Williams
    Chick Williams is a fictional character from the 1968 burlesque-themed comedy film "The Night They Raided Minsky's."
  • 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_69e245823f4c8190ade442cdcc2c224a completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f17cdf1e308190a05d0f61856be544 completed April 29, 2026, 3:37 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b9e99775c819091e8260f3c9da2ee completed May 18, 2026, 11:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ba2c43ba88190bdde24a376d4f713 completed May 18, 2026, 11:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ba364e9288190b0985cfc176e5eae completed May 18, 2026, 11:40 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:31 p.m.