Triple

T4806914
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ballad of a Thin Man E106969 entity
Predicate hasCoverVersionBy P11142 FINISHED
Object The Grass Roots
The Grass Roots were a popular American rock band of the 1960s and 1970s known for their folk-rock and pop-rock hits such as "Let's Live for Today" and "Midnight Confessions."
E472172 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: The Grass Roots | Statement: [Ballad of a Thin Man, hasCoverVersionBy, The Grass Roots]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Grass Roots
Context triple: [Ballad of a Thin Man, hasCoverVersionBy, The Grass Roots]
  • A. The Mamas & the Papas
    The Mamas & the Papas were a popular American folk-rock vocal group of the 1960s known for their rich harmonies and hits like "California Dreamin'" and "Monday, Monday."
  • B. The Byrds
    The Byrds were an influential American rock band of the 1960s known for pioneering folk rock and psychedelic rock with their jangly guitar sound and rich vocal harmonies.
  • C. The Lettermen
    The Lettermen are an American male vocal trio known for their smooth close-harmony pop ballads and romantic standards popular from the 1960s onward.
  • D. Stone Poneys
    Stone Poneys were a 1960s American folk-rock trio best known for launching Linda Ronstadt’s career and their hit single “Different Drum.”
  • E. The Kingston Trio
    The Kingston Trio was a hugely influential American folk group whose polished harmonies and commercial success in the late 1950s and early 1960s helped spark the nationwide folk music boom.
  • 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: The Grass Roots
Triple: [Ballad of a Thin Man, hasCoverVersionBy, The Grass Roots]
Generated description
The Grass Roots were a popular American rock band of the 1960s and 1970s known for their folk-rock and pop-rock hits such as "Let's Live for Today" and "Midnight Confessions."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Grass Roots
Target entity description: The Grass Roots were a popular American rock band of the 1960s and 1970s known for their folk-rock and pop-rock hits such as "Let's Live for Today" and "Midnight Confessions."
  • A. The Mamas & the Papas
    The Mamas & the Papas were a popular American folk-rock vocal group of the 1960s known for their rich harmonies and hits like "California Dreamin'" and "Monday, Monday."
  • B. The Byrds
    The Byrds were an influential American rock band of the 1960s known for pioneering folk rock and psychedelic rock with their jangly guitar sound and rich vocal harmonies.
  • C. The Lettermen
    The Lettermen are an American male vocal trio known for their smooth close-harmony pop ballads and romantic standards popular from the 1960s onward.
  • D. Stone Poneys
    Stone Poneys were a 1960s American folk-rock trio best known for launching Linda Ronstadt’s career and their hit single “Different Drum.”
  • E. The Kingston Trio
    The Kingston Trio was a hugely influential American folk group whose polished harmonies and commercial success in the late 1950s and early 1960s helped spark the nationwide folk music boom.
  • 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_69bd43f6a1e08190bf0a372bfc336ee5 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6c69099c8190956b6df42bb922c8 completed March 20, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be4da2a1808190bd8d0c073e4bad07 completed March 21, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be4e61a9a8819096e3c4ba7612de85 completed March 21, 2026, 7:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be4f0d51ac819097636aaf2429f317 completed March 21, 2026, 7:55 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:23 p.m.