Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Funk Brothers E163922 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object Johnny Griffith
Johnny Griffith was an American keyboardist best known as a member of Motown’s legendary house band, the Funk Brothers, contributing to numerous classic soul and R&B recordings.
E653564 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: Johnny Griffith | Statement: [The Funk Brothers, notableMember, Johnny Griffith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Johnny Griffith
Context triple: [The Funk Brothers, notableMember, Johnny Griffith]
  • A. Lonnie Lynn
    Lonnie Lynn was an American jazz musician and poet best known as the father of rapper Common and for his spoken-word appearances on his son's albums.
  • B. Willie Clayton
    Willie Clayton is an American soul and blues singer known for his smooth vocals and contributions to contemporary Southern soul music.
  • C. Wendell Burton
    Wendell Burton was an American actor best known for his breakout role opposite Liza Minnelli in the 1969 film "The Sterile Cuckoo."
  • D. Gilroy Roberts
    Gilroy Roberts was an American sculptor and engraver best known as the ninth Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint and for creating the obverse portrait of President John F. Kennedy on the Kennedy half dollar.
  • E. Sam Sharkey
    Sam Sharkey is a character associated with the American folklore surrounding the legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan.
  • 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: Johnny Griffith
Triple: [The Funk Brothers, notableMember, Johnny Griffith]
Generated description
Johnny Griffith was an American keyboardist best known as a member of Motown’s legendary house band, the Funk Brothers, contributing to numerous classic soul and R&B recordings.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Johnny Griffith
Target entity description: Johnny Griffith was an American keyboardist best known as a member of Motown’s legendary house band, the Funk Brothers, contributing to numerous classic soul and R&B recordings.
  • A. Lonnie Lynn
    Lonnie Lynn was an American jazz musician and poet best known as the father of rapper Common and for his spoken-word appearances on his son's albums.
  • B. Willie Clayton
    Willie Clayton is an American soul and blues singer known for his smooth vocals and contributions to contemporary Southern soul music.
  • C. Wendell Burton
    Wendell Burton was an American actor best known for his breakout role opposite Liza Minnelli in the 1969 film "The Sterile Cuckoo."
  • D. Gilroy Roberts
    Gilroy Roberts was an American sculptor and engraver best known as the ninth Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint and for creating the obverse portrait of President John F. Kennedy on the Kennedy half dollar.
  • E. Sam Sharkey
    Sam Sharkey is a character associated with the American folklore surrounding the legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan.
  • 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_69c7db42c8d48190a548c4242b07fb40 completed March 28, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7dc794bec819094d848497bd11fc1 completed March 28, 2026, 1:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7dd8117f881908c982c33b3f0e71a completed March 28, 2026, 1:54 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:59 p.m.