Triple

T4808169
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Joan Baez cover) E106996 entity
Predicate producer P490 FINISHED
Object Norbert Putnam
Norbert Putnam is an American record producer, bassist, and member of the famed Muscle Shoals rhythm section who worked with numerous major artists in pop, rock, and folk music.
E474232 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: Norbert Putnam | Statement: [The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Joan Baez cover), producer, Norbert Putnam]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norbert Putnam
Context triple: [The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Joan Baez cover), producer, Norbert Putnam]
  • A. George D. Nelson
    George D. Nelson is a former NASA astronaut and physicist who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s.
  • B. Norman Pitkin
    Norman Pitkin is the bumbling, well-meaning comic character famously portrayed by British comedian Norman Wisdom in a series of mid-20th-century films.
  • C. Fred G. Sanford
    Fred G. Sanford is the cantankerous, sharp-tongued junk dealer and comedic patriarch portrayed by Redd Foxx in the classic American sitcom "Sanford and Son."
  • D. George Deever
    George Deever is a pivotal character in Arthur Miller's play "All My Sons," serving as a morally driven figure whose return and accusations help expose the Keller family's buried guilt and wartime wrongdoing.
  • E. Charles A. Myers
    Charles A. Myers was an American economist and labor relations scholar known for his influential work on industrial relations and collaboration with fellow academic Clark Kerr.
  • 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: Norbert Putnam
Triple: [The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Joan Baez cover), producer, Norbert Putnam]
Generated description
Norbert Putnam is an American record producer, bassist, and member of the famed Muscle Shoals rhythm section who worked with numerous major artists in pop, rock, and folk music.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norbert Putnam
Target entity description: Norbert Putnam is an American record producer, bassist, and member of the famed Muscle Shoals rhythm section who worked with numerous major artists in pop, rock, and folk music.
  • A. George D. Nelson
    George D. Nelson is a former NASA astronaut and physicist who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s.
  • B. Norman Pitkin
    Norman Pitkin is the bumbling, well-meaning comic character famously portrayed by British comedian Norman Wisdom in a series of mid-20th-century films.
  • C. Fred G. Sanford
    Fred G. Sanford is the cantankerous, sharp-tongued junk dealer and comedic patriarch portrayed by Redd Foxx in the classic American sitcom "Sanford and Son."
  • D. George Deever
    George Deever is a pivotal character in Arthur Miller's play "All My Sons," serving as a morally driven figure whose return and accusations help expose the Keller family's buried guilt and wartime wrongdoing.
  • E. Charles A. Myers
    Charles A. Myers was an American economist and labor relations scholar known for his influential work on industrial relations and collaboration with fellow academic Clark Kerr.
  • 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_69bd43f779448190b92885cb70abb6c2 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6c6a98a481909ef273d9946906a4 completed March 20, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be5ca47a588190ac15fabfdab8b2da completed March 21, 2026, 8:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be5f2c3d0c819094a67f6728f2c1b2 completed March 21, 2026, 9:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be5fd33a3c81908b23f7a31bfea53c completed March 21, 2026, 9:07 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:23 p.m.