Triple

T3597318
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Will Oldham E76170 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object William Oldham
William Oldham is an American singer-songwriter and actor best known for his influential indie folk and alt-country music released under the stage name Will Oldham or Bonnie "Prince" Billy.
E378267 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 Oldham | Statement: [Will Oldham, birthName, William Oldham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Oldham
Context triple: [Will Oldham, birthName, William Oldham]
  • A. Edward Holcroft
    Edward Holcroft is a British actor known for his roles in film and television, including appearances in the Kingsman franchise and the series London Spy.
  • B. Henry Willis
    Henry Willis was a businessman best known for establishing Willis Group Holdings, a major global insurance brokerage and risk management firm.
  • C. Henry Willis
    Henry Willis was a prominent 19th-century English organ builder renowned for crafting some of the most celebrated pipe organs in Britain.
  • D. Spooner Oldham
    Spooner Oldham is an American session keyboardist and songwriter renowned for his influential work on classic soul recordings from the 1960s onward.
  • E. Charles Jewtraw
    Charles Jewtraw was an American speed skater best known for winning the first-ever Winter Olympic gold medal in history, in the 500-meter event at the 1924 Chamonix Games.
  • 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 Oldham
Triple: [Will Oldham, birthName, William Oldham]
Generated description
William Oldham is an American singer-songwriter and actor best known for his influential indie folk and alt-country music released under the stage name Will Oldham or Bonnie "Prince" Billy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Oldham
Target entity description: William Oldham is an American singer-songwriter and actor best known for his influential indie folk and alt-country music released under the stage name Will Oldham or Bonnie "Prince" Billy.
  • A. Edward Holcroft
    Edward Holcroft is a British actor known for his roles in film and television, including appearances in the Kingsman franchise and the series London Spy.
  • B. Henry Willis
    Henry Willis was a businessman best known for establishing Willis Group Holdings, a major global insurance brokerage and risk management firm.
  • C. Henry Willis
    Henry Willis was a prominent 19th-century English organ builder renowned for crafting some of the most celebrated pipe organs in Britain.
  • D. Spooner Oldham
    Spooner Oldham is an American session keyboardist and songwriter renowned for his influential work on classic soul recordings from the 1960s onward.
  • E. Charles Jewtraw
    Charles Jewtraw was an American speed skater best known for winning the first-ever Winter Olympic gold medal in history, in the 500-meter event at the 1924 Chamonix Games.
  • 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_69ad85d8042081908af94a04c410dec0 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc19c71608190a87c98214321214c completed March 8, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4882a556881909e6c20cce617e4b6 completed March 13, 2026, 9:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b48bd150088190a0ac0e2f9dafae85 completed March 13, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4b72f71bc8190a5cba6741db1e105 completed March 14, 2026, 1:17 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:22 p.m.