Triple

T4551438
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dave Van Ronk E110171 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object Elijah Wald
Elijah Wald is an American musician, music historian, and author known for his influential books on blues, folk, and popular music.
E451896 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: Elijah Wald | Statement: [Dave Van Ronk, coAuthor, Elijah Wald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elijah Wald
Context triple: [Dave Van Ronk, coAuthor, Elijah Wald]
  • A. William E. McEuen
    William E. McEuen was an American film producer best known for his collaborations with comedian Steve Martin on several successful comedy films.
  • B. Mike Seeger
    Mike Seeger was an influential American folk musician, folklorist, and collector who played a key role in the mid-20th-century revival of traditional old-time music.
  • C. Alan Lomax
    Alan Lomax was an American folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and field collector renowned for preserving and promoting traditional folk music from across the United States and around the world.
  • D. Paul Hood
    Paul Hood is the introspective teenage son in Rick Moody's novel and its film adaptation "The Ice Storm," whose experiences reflect the emotional disconnection and turmoil of his suburban 1970s family.
  • E. John Lomax
    John Lomax was an influential American folklorist and musicologist known for collecting and preserving traditional folk and blues songs, including the work of artists like Lead Belly.
  • 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: Elijah Wald
Triple: [Dave Van Ronk, coAuthor, Elijah Wald]
Generated description
Elijah Wald is an American musician, music historian, and author known for his influential books on blues, folk, and popular music.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elijah Wald
Target entity description: Elijah Wald is an American musician, music historian, and author known for his influential books on blues, folk, and popular music.
  • A. William E. McEuen
    William E. McEuen was an American film producer best known for his collaborations with comedian Steve Martin on several successful comedy films.
  • B. Mike Seeger
    Mike Seeger was an influential American folk musician, folklorist, and collector who played a key role in the mid-20th-century revival of traditional old-time music.
  • C. Alan Lomax
    Alan Lomax was an American folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and field collector renowned for preserving and promoting traditional folk music from across the United States and around the world.
  • D. Paul Hood
    Paul Hood is the introspective teenage son in Rick Moody's novel and its film adaptation "The Ice Storm," whose experiences reflect the emotional disconnection and turmoil of his suburban 1970s family.
  • E. John Lomax
    John Lomax was an influential American folklorist and musicologist known for collecting and preserving traditional folk and blues songs, including the work of artists like Lead Belly.
  • 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_69bd4412524c8190be5bcc9ddee91848 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd57f7b9748190af29d02fc77b02e0 completed March 20, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdb954393c8190b6ff6a5faa129d09 completed March 20, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdbe8c545881909fd921cc1736f297 completed March 20, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdbf4b2a408190b476e5f898605828 completed March 20, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m.