Triple

T7592744
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject I Heard It Through the Grapevine E179778 entity
Predicate writer P1360 FINISHED
Object Barrett Strong
Barrett Strong was an American singer and songwriter best known for co-writing several Motown classics, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone."
E675784 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: Barrett Strong | Statement: [I Heard It Through the Grapevine, writer, Barrett Strong]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barrett Strong
Context triple: [I Heard It Through the Grapevine, writer, Barrett Strong]
  • A. Maurice Williams
    Maurice Williams is a writer best known for his work on the animated television special and series "Entergalactic," created by Kid Cudi and Kenya Barris.
  • B. Ben E. King
    Ben E. King was an American soul and R&B singer best known for his classic hit "Stand by Me" and his work with The Drifters.
  • C. Toots Hibbert
    Toots Hibbert was a pioneering Jamaican singer and songwriter, widely regarded as one of the founders of reggae music and the charismatic frontman of Toots and the Maytals.
  • D. Eddie Holland
    Eddie Holland is an American songwriter and record producer best known as a member of the legendary Motown songwriting team Holland–Dozier–Holland, who crafted numerous hits for acts like the Four Tops and the Supremes.
  • E. Nickolas Ashford
    Nickolas Ashford was an American songwriter, producer, and performer best known as half of the Motown hit-making duo Ashford & Simpson.
  • 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: Barrett Strong
Triple: [I Heard It Through the Grapevine, writer, Barrett Strong]
Generated description
Barrett Strong was an American singer and songwriter best known for co-writing several Motown classics, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barrett Strong
Target entity description: Barrett Strong was an American singer and songwriter best known for co-writing several Motown classics, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone."
  • A. Maurice Williams
    Maurice Williams is a writer best known for his work on the animated television special and series "Entergalactic," created by Kid Cudi and Kenya Barris.
  • B. Ben E. King
    Ben E. King was an American soul and R&B singer best known for his classic hit "Stand by Me" and his work with The Drifters.
  • C. Toots Hibbert
    Toots Hibbert was a pioneering Jamaican singer and songwriter, widely regarded as one of the founders of reggae music and the charismatic frontman of Toots and the Maytals.
  • D. Eddie Holland
    Eddie Holland is an American songwriter and record producer best known as a member of the legendary Motown songwriting team Holland–Dozier–Holland, who crafted numerous hits for acts like the Four Tops and the Supremes.
  • E. Nickolas Ashford
    Nickolas Ashford was an American songwriter, producer, and performer best known as half of the Motown hit-making duo Ashford & Simpson.
  • 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_69c69f3487ec8190bf7acdf2dd91e6d6 completed March 27, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f9b92c348190b547f0aacfb8d6be completed March 27, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c86197fe0881908307a411cabdca7f completed March 28, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c86223bfec8190b47f840e39c9a51a completed March 28, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c862b8f3688190b0abc00458f70d7e completed March 28, 2026, 11:22 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:53 p.m.