Triple

T6587745
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Big Bill Broonzy E159268 entity
Predicate associatedAct P37 FINISHED
Object Washboard Sam
Washboard Sam was an American blues musician and singer known for his energetic washboard playing and influential recordings in the 1930s and 1940s Chicago blues scene.
E607122 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: Washboard Sam | Statement: [Big Bill Broonzy, associatedAct, Washboard Sam]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Washboard Sam
Context triple: [Big Bill Broonzy, associatedAct, Washboard Sam]
  • A. Pecos Bill
    Pecos Bill is a legendary cowboy folk hero of the American West, popularized in tall tales and later adapted in various media as an exaggerated symbol of frontier bravado and humor.
  • B. Sycamore Sam
    Sycamore Sam is the costumed mascot representing Indiana State University's athletic teams, especially the men's basketball program.
  • C. Lobster Johnson
    Lobster Johnson is a pulp-style vigilante superhero from Mike Mignola’s Hellboy universe, known for his fiery claw symbol and battles against gangsters and occult threats in 1930s America.
  • D. Big Bill
    Big Bill was a prominent early 20th-century American labor leader and founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), known for his militant union organizing and advocacy for industrial unionism.
  • E. Big Bill
    Big Bill was the influential American motorsports executive Bill France Sr., best known as the founder and longtime leader of NASCAR.
  • 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: Washboard Sam
Triple: [Big Bill Broonzy, associatedAct, Washboard Sam]
Generated description
Washboard Sam was an American blues musician and singer known for his energetic washboard playing and influential recordings in the 1930s and 1940s Chicago blues scene.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Washboard Sam
Target entity description: Washboard Sam was an American blues musician and singer known for his energetic washboard playing and influential recordings in the 1930s and 1940s Chicago blues scene.
  • A. Pecos Bill
    Pecos Bill is a legendary cowboy folk hero of the American West, popularized in tall tales and later adapted in various media as an exaggerated symbol of frontier bravado and humor.
  • B. Sycamore Sam
    Sycamore Sam is the costumed mascot representing Indiana State University's athletic teams, especially the men's basketball program.
  • C. Lobster Johnson
    Lobster Johnson is a pulp-style vigilante superhero from Mike Mignola’s Hellboy universe, known for his fiery claw symbol and battles against gangsters and occult threats in 1930s America.
  • D. Big Bill
    Big Bill was the influential American motorsports executive Bill France Sr., best known as the founder and longtime leader of NASCAR.
  • E. Big Bill
    Big Bill was a prominent early 20th-century American labor leader and founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), known for his militant union organizing and advocacy for industrial unionism.
  • 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_69c688366ce8819083f8883983c0df92 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6aeafd2848190bb51e3ea9711c803 completed March 27, 2026, 4:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6e42b72c481909f582f4f5b07e3d9 completed March 27, 2026, 8:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6e4e9c344819099ad11c21c2e4a6e completed March 27, 2026, 8:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6e581a4f88190b1f64033a49d1bae completed March 27, 2026, 8:16 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:55 p.m.