Triple

T4422160
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject NHL on NBC E95124 entity
Predicate themeMusicComposer P1952 FINISHED
Object John Colby
John Colby is a composer best known for creating the iconic theme music used in NBC’s National Hockey League (NHL) broadcasts.
E437622 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: John Colby | Statement: [NHL on NBC, themeMusicComposer, John Colby]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Colby
Context triple: [NHL on NBC, themeMusicComposer, John Colby]
  • A. Grant Withers
    Grant Withers was an American film actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood from the silent era through the 1950s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
  • B. Sir George Pomeroy Colley
    Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his ill-fated leadership and death in battle during the early stages of the First Boer War.
  • C. Wesley Kilmer
    Wesley Kilmer is a sibling of American actor Val Kilmer, known primarily in relation to his more famous brother.
  • D. John Blatchley
    John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
  • E. Theodore St. John
    Theodore St. John was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Academy Award-winning circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952).
  • 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: John Colby
Triple: [NHL on NBC, themeMusicComposer, John Colby]
Generated description
John Colby is a composer best known for creating the iconic theme music used in NBC’s National Hockey League (NHL) broadcasts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Colby
Target entity description: John Colby is a composer best known for creating the iconic theme music used in NBC’s National Hockey League (NHL) broadcasts.
  • A. Grant Withers
    Grant Withers was an American film actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood from the silent era through the 1950s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
  • B. Sir George Pomeroy Colley
    Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his ill-fated leadership and death in battle during the early stages of the First Boer War.
  • C. Wesley Kilmer
    Wesley Kilmer is a sibling of American actor Val Kilmer, known primarily in relation to his more famous brother.
  • D. John Blatchley
    John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
  • E. Theodore St. John
    Theodore St. John was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Academy Award-winning circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952).
  • 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_69b3453a36908190b95a79a297ca083c completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3554a0e7c8190b704d00d07b1857d completed March 13, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5f62715748190abceb14396ad637d completed March 14, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5f6d4bb84819081512aec6b49507b completed March 15, 2026, 12:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5f7887cb08190bf498eefc3627bfa completed March 15, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:30 p.m.