Triple

T5741501
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (film) E126623 entity
Predicate starredActor P5563 FINISHED
Object Ben Gibbard
Ben Gibbard is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie and as a member of The Postal Service.
E543078 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 Gibbard | Statement: [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (film), starredActor, Ben Gibbard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Gibbard
Context triple: [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (film), starredActor, Ben Gibbard]
  • A. Conor Oberst
    Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Bright Eyes and for his influential work in the indie and folk music scenes.
  • B. Rivers Cuomo
    Rivers Cuomo is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Weezer.
  • C. Alex Ebert
    Alex Ebert is an American singer-songwriter and composer best known as the frontman of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and for his work scoring films.
  • D. Win Butler
    Win Butler is an American-Canadian musician best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and co-founder of the indie rock band Arcade Fire.
  • E. Nate Ruess
    Nate Ruess is an American singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the band fun. and for his hit collaborations in pop music.
  • 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 Gibbard
Triple: [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (film), starredActor, Ben Gibbard]
Generated description
Ben Gibbard is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie and as a member of The Postal Service.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Gibbard
Target entity description: Ben Gibbard is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie and as a member of The Postal Service.
  • A. Conor Oberst
    Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Bright Eyes and for his influential work in the indie and folk music scenes.
  • B. Rivers Cuomo
    Rivers Cuomo is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Weezer.
  • C. Alex Ebert
    Alex Ebert is an American singer-songwriter and composer best known as the frontman of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and for his work scoring films.
  • D. Win Butler
    Win Butler is an American-Canadian musician best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and co-founder of the indie rock band Arcade Fire.
  • E. Nate Ruess
    Nate Ruess is an American singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the band fun. and for his hit collaborations in pop music.
  • 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_69c0083179548190b384b0bf3c08ca4d completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0258382908190af8787feb1e5fbcd completed March 22, 2026, 5:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c07e1bfe4481908740aa20d55ec8f6 completed March 22, 2026, 11:41 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c08a2bc1b08190998a7e5eb8d6d6ac completed March 23, 2026, 12:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c08a85b508819088464b97b6c9bb99 completed March 23, 2026, 12:34 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:48 p.m.