Triple

T3496321
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ry Cooder E73859 entity
Predicate associatedAct P37 FINISHED
Object Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart was the stage name of Don Van Vliet, an experimental American musician and bandleader known for his avant-garde rock, blues, and free-jazz–influenced work, especially with his Magic Band.
E363117 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: Captain Beefheart | Statement: [Ry Cooder, associatedAct, Captain Beefheart]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Beefheart
Context triple: [Ry Cooder, associatedAct, Captain Beefheart]
  • A. Iggy Pop
    Iggy Pop is an influential American rock singer, songwriter, and frontman of The Stooges, often hailed as the "Godfather of Punk" for his raw, energetic performances and pioneering role in punk music.
  • B. Wayne Kramer
    Wayne Kramer is a South African–born American filmmaker best known for writing and directing gritty, character-driven crime dramas such as "The Cooler" and "Running Scared."
  • C. Elvis Ramone
    Elvis Ramone is the brief-stage-name used by Blondie drummer Clem Burke during his short-lived stint as a replacement drummer for the punk rock band the Ramones.
  • D. Roger Troutman
    Roger Troutman was an American funk musician, singer, producer, and bandleader of Zapp, renowned for pioneering the talk box sound that heavily influenced West Coast hip hop and G-funk.
  • E. Richard Hell
    Richard Hell is an influential American punk rock musician, singer, and writer, best known as a founding figure of the 1970s New York punk scene with bands like Television and Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
  • 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: Captain Beefheart
Triple: [Ry Cooder, associatedAct, Captain Beefheart]
Generated description
Captain Beefheart was the stage name of Don Van Vliet, an experimental American musician and bandleader known for his avant-garde rock, blues, and free-jazz–influenced work, especially with his Magic Band.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Beefheart
Target entity description: Captain Beefheart was the stage name of Don Van Vliet, an experimental American musician and bandleader known for his avant-garde rock, blues, and free-jazz–influenced work, especially with his Magic Band.
  • A. Iggy Pop
    Iggy Pop is an influential American rock singer, songwriter, and frontman of The Stooges, often hailed as the "Godfather of Punk" for his raw, energetic performances and pioneering role in punk music.
  • B. Wayne Kramer
    Wayne Kramer is a South African–born American filmmaker best known for writing and directing gritty, character-driven crime dramas such as "The Cooler" and "Running Scared."
  • C. Elvis Ramone
    Elvis Ramone is the brief-stage-name used by Blondie drummer Clem Burke during his short-lived stint as a replacement drummer for the punk rock band the Ramones.
  • D. Roger Troutman
    Roger Troutman was an American funk musician, singer, producer, and bandleader of Zapp, renowned for pioneering the talk box sound that heavily influenced West Coast hip hop and G-funk.
  • E. Richard Hell
    Richard Hell is an influential American punk rock musician, singer, and writer, best known as a founding figure of the 1970s New York punk scene with bands like Television and Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
  • 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_69ad85cdb6e48190a335d412b9194ed8 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbbd16c0081908f13535f459618d1 completed March 8, 2026, 6:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b373cce4008190beb010b171bc4940 completed March 13, 2026, 2:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b374a7a4fc81909cb7e36502132d12 completed March 13, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3755597d8819081375fab35b75369 completed March 13, 2026, 2:24 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:18 p.m.