Triple

T6269328
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ronnie DeVoe E140489 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Ronald Boyd DeVoe Jr.
Ronald Boyd DeVoe Jr. is an American singer and rapper best known as a member of the R&B groups New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe.
E579715 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: Ronald Boyd DeVoe Jr. | Statement: [Ronnie DeVoe, fullName, Ronald Boyd DeVoe Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ronald Boyd DeVoe Jr.
Context triple: [Ronnie DeVoe, fullName, Ronald Boyd DeVoe Jr.]
  • A. Noland B. Harmon
    Noland B. Harmon was an American Methodist bishop known for co-authoring the 1963 “A Call for Unity” statement that criticized civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
  • B. Frank Reicher
    Frank Reicher was a German-American actor and director best known for his roles in early Hollywood films, including classic monster movies of the 1930s.
  • C. Robert L. Carter
    Robert L. Carter was a prominent American civil rights attorney and later federal judge who played a key role in the NAACP’s legal campaign against school segregation, including work on the cases that led to Brown v. Board of Education.
  • D. Ronald J. Williams
    Ronald J. Williams is a computer scientist known for his influential contributions to neural networks and machine learning, particularly in the development of backpropagation and reinforcement learning algorithms.
  • E. Maurice R. Robinson
    Maurice R. Robinson was an American publisher and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Scholastic, a major global children’s publishing and education company.
  • 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: Ronald Boyd DeVoe Jr.
Triple: [Ronnie DeVoe, fullName, Ronald Boyd DeVoe Jr.]
Generated description
Ronald Boyd DeVoe Jr. is an American singer and rapper best known as a member of the R&B groups New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ronald Boyd DeVoe Jr.
Target entity description: Ronald Boyd DeVoe Jr. is an American singer and rapper best known as a member of the R&B groups New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe.
  • A. Noland B. Harmon
    Noland B. Harmon was an American Methodist bishop known for co-authoring the 1963 “A Call for Unity” statement that criticized civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
  • B. Frank Reicher
    Frank Reicher was a German-American actor and director best known for his roles in early Hollywood films, including classic monster movies of the 1930s.
  • C. Robert L. Carter
    Robert L. Carter was a prominent American civil rights attorney and later federal judge who played a key role in the NAACP’s legal campaign against school segregation, including work on the cases that led to Brown v. Board of Education.
  • D. Ronald J. Williams
    Ronald J. Williams is a computer scientist known for his influential contributions to neural networks and machine learning, particularly in the development of backpropagation and reinforcement learning algorithms.
  • E. Maurice R. Robinson
    Maurice R. Robinson was an American publisher and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Scholastic, a major global children’s publishing and education company.
  • 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_69c008cabc4081909723e2547c9d6cc0 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c063a3f1d081908ccff88db94b1f9c completed March 22, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c24460f1bc8190b15ca58331410ec2 completed March 24, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c2a5a6157c8190a57a297cf606eecb completed March 24, 2026, 2:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c2a60a92cc8190847e242482788ff3 completed March 24, 2026, 2:56 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:25 p.m.