Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Funk Brothers E163922 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object Earl Van Dyke
Earl Van Dyke was an American keyboardist and bandleader best known for his influential work on countless Motown hits as a core member of the label’s house band.
E658525 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: Earl Van Dyke | Statement: [The Funk Brothers, notableMember, Earl Van Dyke]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Earl Van Dyke
Context triple: [The Funk Brothers, notableMember, Earl Van Dyke]
  • A. Milton Van Dyke
    Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
  • B. Earl Hurd
    Earl Hurd was an American animator, director, and writer best known as a pioneer of cel animation and an influential early figure in the development of animated films.
  • C. Earl Jowitt
    Earl Jowitt was the noble title held by William Jowitt, a prominent British Labour politician and Lord Chancellor in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Frank Otis
    Frank Otis was an individual significant enough in U.S. military or aviation history that a major installation, Otis Air Force Base in Massachusetts, was named in his honor.
  • E. Paul A. Dever
    Paul A. Dever was an American politician who served as the 61st Governor of Massachusetts from 1949 to 1953.
  • 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: Earl Van Dyke
Triple: [The Funk Brothers, notableMember, Earl Van Dyke]
Generated description
Earl Van Dyke was an American keyboardist and bandleader best known for his influential work on countless Motown hits as a core member of the label’s house band.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Earl Van Dyke
Target entity description: Earl Van Dyke was an American keyboardist and bandleader best known for his influential work on countless Motown hits as a core member of the label’s house band.
  • A. Milton Van Dyke
    Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
  • B. Earl Hurd
    Earl Hurd was an American animator, director, and writer best known as a pioneer of cel animation and an influential early figure in the development of animated films.
  • C. Earl Jowitt
    Earl Jowitt was the noble title held by William Jowitt, a prominent British Labour politician and Lord Chancellor in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Frank Otis
    Frank Otis was an individual significant enough in U.S. military or aviation history that a major installation, Otis Air Force Base in Massachusetts, was named in his honor.
  • E. Paul A. Dever
    Paul A. Dever was an American politician who served as the 61st Governor of Massachusetts from 1949 to 1953.
  • 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_69c6886093b88190a254b1ce6db8bae7 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6eb6a73fc8190ae5ce81fd3e46d87 completed March 27, 2026, 8:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7fa702e508190a2a88d497c4ef9be completed March 28, 2026, 3:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7fc13167c819084ff05d780fc4394 completed March 28, 2026, 4:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7fd453fac8190862000bd670b5695 completed March 28, 2026, 4:09 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:59 p.m.