Triple
T3677024
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Drifters |
E78016
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasMember |
P10
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Rick Sheppard
Rick Sheppard is an American singer and musician best known as a longtime member of the R&B vocal group The Drifters.
|
E404642
|
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: Rick Sheppard | Statement: [The Drifters, hasMember, Rick Sheppard]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rick Sheppard Context triple: [The Drifters, hasMember, Rick Sheppard]
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A.
Brian Sipe
Brian Sipe is a former NFL quarterback best known for his MVP-winning 1980 season with the Cleveland Browns as leader of the "Kardiac Kids."
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B.
Will Shephard
Will Shephard is an actor known for his role in the 1976 remake of the classic monster film King Kong.
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C.
Marc Rowan
Marc Rowan is an American billionaire investor and co-founder of Apollo Global Management, one of the world’s leading alternative asset management firms.
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D.
Jack Shea
Jack Shea was an American speed skater who became a double gold medalist at the 1932 Winter Olympics and one of the early stars of U.S. winter sports.
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E.
Bill Shearer
Bill Shearer was an American political activist best known for co-founding and organizing the conservative, segregationist-leaning American Independent Party in the late 1960s.
- 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: Rick Sheppard Triple: [The Drifters, hasMember, Rick Sheppard]
Generated description
Rick Sheppard is an American singer and musician best known as a longtime member of the R&B vocal group The Drifters.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rick Sheppard Target entity description: Rick Sheppard is an American singer and musician best known as a longtime member of the R&B vocal group The Drifters.
-
A.
Brian Sipe
Brian Sipe is a former NFL quarterback best known for his MVP-winning 1980 season with the Cleveland Browns as leader of the "Kardiac Kids."
-
B.
Will Shephard
Will Shephard is an actor known for his role in the 1976 remake of the classic monster film King Kong.
-
C.
Marc Rowan
Marc Rowan is an American billionaire investor and co-founder of Apollo Global Management, one of the world’s leading alternative asset management firms.
-
D.
Jack Shea
Jack Shea was an American speed skater who became a double gold medalist at the 1932 Winter Olympics and one of the early stars of U.S. winter sports.
-
E.
Bill Shearer
Bill Shearer was an American political activist best known for co-founding and organizing the conservative, segregationist-leaning American Independent Party in the late 1960s.
- 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_69ad85e18c1c8190be8aafb227f39f48 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adc4643cf08190b2d10ddf4aac7407 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b53fd9ce4081908dee7b37946e86ae |
completed | March 14, 2026, 11 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b5440331908190b7a2f32550c2c1f0 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 11:18 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b5451619d48190bcaa97f079397dcf |
completed | March 14, 2026, 11:23 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:25 p.m.