Triple

T4780106
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Barry Manilow E106151 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Ships
"Ships" is a pop ballad by American singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, released in 1979 and known for its emotional exploration of a strained father-son relationship.
E470641 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: Ships | Statement: [Barry Manilow, notableWork, Ships]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ships
Context triple: [Barry Manilow, notableWork, Ships]
  • A. Vessel
    Vessel is a honeycomb-like, climbable public art structure and landmark in New York City’s Hudson Yards development.
  • B. Liberty ships
    Liberty ships were mass-produced American cargo vessels built during World War II to rapidly transport war supplies and troops across the Atlantic and other theaters.
  • C. Aluku
    Aluku are a Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana descended from escaped African slaves, known for their distinct culture, history of resistance, and relative isolation in the interior rainforest regions.
  • D. Wooden Ships
    "Wooden Ships" is a classic late-1960s counterculture rock song, co-written by David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Paul Kantner, that imagines survivors escaping a nuclear apocalypse by sea.
  • E. Victory ships
    Victory ships were a class of faster, more durable American cargo vessels built during World War II to replace Liberty ships and support Allied logistics.
  • 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: Ships
Triple: [Barry Manilow, notableWork, Ships]
Generated description
"Ships" is a pop ballad by American singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, released in 1979 and known for its emotional exploration of a strained father-son relationship.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ships
Target entity description: "Ships" is a pop ballad by American singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, released in 1979 and known for its emotional exploration of a strained father-son relationship.
  • A. Vessel
    Vessel is a honeycomb-like, climbable public art structure and landmark in New York City’s Hudson Yards development.
  • B. Liberty ships
    Liberty ships were mass-produced American cargo vessels built during World War II to rapidly transport war supplies and troops across the Atlantic and other theaters.
  • C. Aluku
    Aluku are a Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana descended from escaped African slaves, known for their distinct culture, history of resistance, and relative isolation in the interior rainforest regions.
  • D. Wooden Ships
    "Wooden Ships" is a classic late-1960s counterculture rock song, co-written by David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Paul Kantner, that imagines survivors escaping a nuclear apocalypse by sea.
  • E. Victory ships
    Victory ships were a class of faster, more durable American cargo vessels built during World War II to replace Liberty ships and support Allied logistics.
  • 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_69bd43f3074c8190937e7b0a457fe9f1 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd658a86288190bc80651840ce6b18 completed March 20, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be43cecc748190a410c262aa2e4b98 completed March 21, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be45b95ab48190b5d8b84c56b1a0ac completed March 21, 2026, 7:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be46e400cc8190aaa7fc42713f30c6 completed March 21, 2026, 7:21 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:21 p.m.