Triple

T4806916
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ballad of a Thin Man E106969 entity
Predicate hasCoverVersionBy P11142 FINISHED
Object Ben Sidran
Ben Sidran is an American jazz and rock keyboardist, singer, producer, and writer known for his work with the Steve Miller Band and his extensive solo career blending jazz, rock, and pop influences.
E472173 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: Ben Sidran | Statement: [Ballad of a Thin Man, hasCoverVersionBy, Ben Sidran]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Sidran
Context triple: [Ballad of a Thin Man, hasCoverVersionBy, Ben Sidran]
  • A. Al Kooper
    Al Kooper is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known for his influential session work with Bob Dylan, founding role in Blood, Sweat & Tears, and contributions to classic rock recordings of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • B. Steven Van Zandt
    Steven Van Zandt is an American musician, songwriter, producer, and actor best known as a longtime guitarist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and for his role as Silvio Dante on the TV series The Sopranos.
  • C. Lenny Belardo
    Lenny Belardo is the fictional, enigmatic young American pope at the center of the television series "The Young Pope."
  • D. Nils Lofgren
    Nils Lofgren is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and virtuoso guitarist best known for his solo work and as a longtime member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.
  • E. Eric Johnson
    Eric Johnson is an American politician and attorney who has served as the mayor of Dallas, Texas, leading the city through issues of urban development, public safety, and economic growth.
  • 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: Ben Sidran
Triple: [Ballad of a Thin Man, hasCoverVersionBy, Ben Sidran]
Generated description
Ben Sidran is an American jazz and rock keyboardist, singer, producer, and writer known for his work with the Steve Miller Band and his extensive solo career blending jazz, rock, and pop influences.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Sidran
Target entity description: Ben Sidran is an American jazz and rock keyboardist, singer, producer, and writer known for his work with the Steve Miller Band and his extensive solo career blending jazz, rock, and pop influences.
  • A. Al Kooper
    Al Kooper is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known for his influential session work with Bob Dylan, founding role in Blood, Sweat & Tears, and contributions to classic rock recordings of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • B. Steven Van Zandt
    Steven Van Zandt is an American musician, songwriter, producer, and actor best known as a longtime guitarist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and for his role as Silvio Dante on the TV series The Sopranos.
  • C. Lenny Belardo
    Lenny Belardo is the fictional, enigmatic young American pope at the center of the television series "The Young Pope."
  • D. Nils Lofgren
    Nils Lofgren is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and virtuoso guitarist best known for his solo work and as a longtime member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.
  • E. Eric Johnson
    Eric Johnson is an American politician and attorney who has served as the mayor of Dallas, Texas, leading the city through issues of urban development, public safety, and economic growth.
  • 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.