Triple

T3503296
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bonnie "Prince" Billy E74017 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Bonny Billy
Bonny Billy is an alias of American singer-songwriter and actor Will Oldham, known for his introspective, genre-blurring indie folk music.
E363853 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: Bonny Billy | Statement: [Bonnie "Prince" Billy, alsoKnownAs, Bonny Billy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bonny Billy
Context triple: [Bonnie "Prince" Billy, alsoKnownAs, Bonny Billy]
  • A. Bonny
    Bonny is a historic coastal town and important oil and gas hub located on Bonny Island in Nigeria’s Rivers State.
  • B. Sunny Jim
    Sunny Jim was the popular nickname of James Rolph, a prominent early 20th-century California politician who served as mayor of San Francisco and later governor of California.
  • C. Billy Ruffian
    Billy Ruffian is the colloquial nickname for HMS Bellerophon, a notable Royal Navy ship of the line that fought in the Napoleonic Wars and received Napoleon’s surrender in 1815.
  • D. Willie
    Willie is the first name of Willie Nelson, the iconic American country music singer-songwriter and cultural figure.
  • E. Johnny Belinda
    "Johnny Belinda" is a 1948 drama film best known for Jane Wyman’s Oscar-winning performance as a deaf-mute woman living in a small Nova Scotia fishing village.
  • 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: Bonny Billy
Triple: [Bonnie "Prince" Billy, alsoKnownAs, Bonny Billy]
Generated description
Bonny Billy is an alias of American singer-songwriter and actor Will Oldham, known for his introspective, genre-blurring indie folk music.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bonny Billy
Target entity description: Bonny Billy is an alias of American singer-songwriter and actor Will Oldham, known for his introspective, genre-blurring indie folk music.
  • A. Bonny
    Bonny is a historic coastal town and important oil and gas hub located on Bonny Island in Nigeria’s Rivers State.
  • B. Sunny Jim
    Sunny Jim was the popular nickname of James Rolph, a prominent early 20th-century California politician who served as mayor of San Francisco and later governor of California.
  • C. Billy Ruffian
    Billy Ruffian is the colloquial nickname for HMS Bellerophon, a notable Royal Navy ship of the line that fought in the Napoleonic Wars and received Napoleon’s surrender in 1815.
  • D. Willie
    Willie is the first name of Willie Nelson, the iconic American country music singer-songwriter and cultural figure.
  • E. Johnny Belinda
    "Johnny Belinda" is a 1948 drama film best known for Jane Wyman’s Oscar-winning performance as a deaf-mute woman living in a small Nova Scotia fishing village.
  • 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_69ad85ce7a9c81909ddc5cf0cb67a6e3 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbbf0c2b48190b49923137bb9e45d completed March 8, 2026, 6:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b373db933881908557d678dcdee382 completed March 13, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b377a690348190a765b021bbbc820c completed March 13, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3781aaab48190a497a0929966ec12 completed March 13, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:18 p.m.