Triple

T4521636
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mirrors E103282 entity
Predicate writer P1360 FINISHED
Object Walter De Backer
Walter De Backer, better known by his stage name Gotye, is a Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist famed for his hit single "Somebody That I Used to Know."
E449503 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: Walter De Backer | Statement: [Mirrors, writer, Walter De Backer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter De Backer
Context triple: [Mirrors, writer, Walter De Backer]
  • A. Geert Bourgeois
    Geert Bourgeois is a Belgian Flemish nationalist politician and former Minister-President of Flanders, known as a founding figure and key leader of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA).
  • B. César De Paepe
    César De Paepe was a prominent 19th-century Belgian socialist thinker and physician who played a leading role in the early international labor movement.
  • C. Ed Van Impe
    Ed Van Impe is a former Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman best known for his tough, physical play with the Philadelphia Flyers during their 1970s Stanley Cup era.
  • D. Alexandre De Meyer
    Alexandre De Meyer is a music producer known for his work on Kanye West’s influential album "808s & Heartbreak."
  • E. Paul Thiry
    Paul Thiry was a prominent mid-20th-century American architect known as a leading figure of Northwest modernism.
  • 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: Walter De Backer
Triple: [Mirrors, writer, Walter De Backer]
Generated description
Walter De Backer, better known by his stage name Gotye, is a Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist famed for his hit single "Somebody That I Used to Know."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter De Backer
Target entity description: Walter De Backer, better known by his stage name Gotye, is a Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist famed for his hit single "Somebody That I Used to Know."
  • A. Geert Bourgeois
    Geert Bourgeois is a Belgian Flemish nationalist politician and former Minister-President of Flanders, known as a founding figure and key leader of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA).
  • B. César De Paepe
    César De Paepe was a prominent 19th-century Belgian socialist thinker and physician who played a leading role in the early international labor movement.
  • C. Ed Van Impe
    Ed Van Impe is a former Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman best known for his tough, physical play with the Philadelphia Flyers during their 1970s Stanley Cup era.
  • D. Alexandre De Meyer
    Alexandre De Meyer is a music producer known for his work on Kanye West’s influential album "808s & Heartbreak."
  • E. Paul Thiry
    Paul Thiry was a prominent mid-20th-century American architect known as a leading figure of Northwest modernism.
  • 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_69bd43dba59881908cf59b31df8c7ae1 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd574bd6908190b939d92b5809b101 completed March 20, 2026, 2:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bda43a82c08190b3d43efcee45a8ea completed March 20, 2026, 7:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bda485290c8190ac2b7d93c5c5ac47 completed March 20, 2026, 7:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bda5883f148190b4e67f5ea6768440 completed March 20, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:02 p.m.