Triple

T4726102
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Foo Fighters E104887 entity
Predicate pastMember P1168 FINISHED
Object William Goldsmith
William Goldsmith is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the bands Sunny Day Real Estate and as an early member of Foo Fighters.
E468775 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 Goldsmith | Statement: [Foo Fighters, pastMember, William Goldsmith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Goldsmith
Context triple: [Foo Fighters, pastMember, William Goldsmith]
  • A. Frank Rothwell
    Frank Rothwell is a British businessman and philanthropist known for owning and leading Oldham Athletic A.F.C. as its chairman.
  • B. Donald Goldsmith
    Donald Goldsmith is an American astronomer, science writer, and popularizer of cosmology known for making complex astrophysical concepts accessible to general audiences.
  • C. George Croydon Marks
    George Croydon Marks was a British engineer and Liberal politician known for his work on cliff railways and other mechanical and civil engineering projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. William Kenwright
    William Kenwright was a prominent British theatre producer and film producer, best known for his long-running West End shows and his ownership and chairmanship of Everton Football Club.
  • E. Charles Goldfarb
    Charles Goldfarb is a computer scientist best known as the principal inventor of SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language that laid the foundation for HTML and XML.
  • 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 Goldsmith
Triple: [Foo Fighters, pastMember, William Goldsmith]
Generated description
William Goldsmith is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the bands Sunny Day Real Estate and as an early member of Foo Fighters.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Goldsmith
Target entity description: William Goldsmith is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the bands Sunny Day Real Estate and as an early member of Foo Fighters.
  • A. Frank Rothwell
    Frank Rothwell is a British businessman and philanthropist known for owning and leading Oldham Athletic A.F.C. as its chairman.
  • B. Donald Goldsmith
    Donald Goldsmith is an American astronomer, science writer, and popularizer of cosmology known for making complex astrophysical concepts accessible to general audiences.
  • C. George Croydon Marks
    George Croydon Marks was a British engineer and Liberal politician known for his work on cliff railways and other mechanical and civil engineering projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. William Kenwright
    William Kenwright was a prominent British theatre producer and film producer, best known for his long-running West End shows and his ownership and chairmanship of Everton Football Club.
  • E. Charles Goldfarb
    Charles Goldfarb is a computer scientist best known as the principal inventor of SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language that laid the foundation for HTML and XML.
  • 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_69bd43ed84648190ae0b7ee8e8d00482 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6446b42081908e023979c9685730 completed March 20, 2026, 3:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be43a86b288190ada883c345b00c72 completed March 21, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be449593f0819092be9f4a86bb47aa completed March 21, 2026, 7:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be44f6031c81908fdca148b784aaf9 completed March 21, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:18 p.m.