Triple

T23182255
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject If I Can Dream E579493 entity
Predicate lyricist P1360 FINISHED
Object Walter Earl Brown
Walter Earl Brown was an American songwriter best known for writing Elvis Presley’s 1968 anthem “If I Can Dream.”
E1576115 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: Walter Earl Brown | Statement: [If I Can Dream, lyricist, Walter Earl Brown]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Earl Brown
Context triple: [If I Can Dream, lyricist, Walter Earl Brown]
  • A. Robert Woodley Brown
    Robert Woodley Brown was an artist associated with the Cullercoats artist colony, a noted 19th-century community of painters on the northeast coast of England.
  • B. Herman Brown
    Herman Brown was an American businessman and co-founder of the major engineering and construction firm Brown & Root, which became influential in large-scale infrastructure and government contracting.
  • C. J. G. Brown
    J. G. Brown was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mount Farnham in British Columbia, Canada.
  • D. W. Earl Brown
    W. Earl Brown is an American character actor and screenwriter known for his roles in projects such as Deadwood, Scream, and There's Something About Mary.
  • E. Arthur J. Brown
    Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
  • 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: Walter Earl Brown
Triple: [If I Can Dream, lyricist, Walter Earl Brown]
Generated description
Walter Earl Brown was an American songwriter best known for writing Elvis Presley’s 1968 anthem “If I Can Dream.”
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Earl Brown
Target entity description: Walter Earl Brown was an American songwriter best known for writing Elvis Presley’s 1968 anthem “If I Can Dream.”
  • A. Robert Woodley Brown
    Robert Woodley Brown was an artist associated with the Cullercoats artist colony, a noted 19th-century community of painters on the northeast coast of England.
  • B. Herman Brown
    Herman Brown was an American businessman and co-founder of the major engineering and construction firm Brown & Root, which became influential in large-scale infrastructure and government contracting.
  • C. J. G. Brown
    J. G. Brown was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mount Farnham in British Columbia, Canada.
  • D. W. Earl Brown
    W. Earl Brown is an American character actor and screenwriter known for his roles in projects such as Deadwood, Scream, and There's Something About Mary.
  • E. Arthur J. Brown
    Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
  • 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_69e245ff8000819090d12008805315b7 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18f6f770c81908622085693e37123 completed April 29, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c3f480bbc81909cc58efe56e1b2c2 completed May 19, 2026, 10:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c40a296f08190b4f02c41af423813 completed May 19, 2026, 10:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c411926fc8190b84a86450e5779c7 completed May 19, 2026, 10:53 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:05 p.m.