Triple

T7986701
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ricky Nelson (1958 album) E185698 entity
Predicate backingVocalsBy P9646 FINISHED
Object The Four Preps
The Four Preps were a popular American male vocal quartet of the 1950s and 1960s known for their smooth harmonies and hit pop songs like "26 Miles (Santa Catalina)" and "Big Man."
E702703 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: The Four Preps | Statement: [Ricky Nelson (1958 album), backingVocalsBy, The Four Preps]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Four Preps
Context triple: [Ricky Nelson (1958 album), backingVocalsBy, The Four Preps]
  • A. The Freshman
    The Freshman is a 1925 silent comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as an eager but awkward college newcomer whose attempts to become popular lead to a series of humorous misadventures.
  • B. The Collegian
    The Collegian is the student-run newspaper serving the Kansas State University community with campus news, features, and opinion content.
  • C. Colegio del Aire
    Colegio del Aire is Mexico’s military aviation academy responsible for training officers and specialists for the Mexican Air Force.
  • D. The Last Graduate
    The Last Graduate is a fantasy novel by Naomi Novik that continues the Scholomance series, following magically gifted students struggling to survive their deadly school as they approach graduation.
  • E. The Paper Chase
    The Paper Chase is a 1973 American drama film (and later a TV series) about the intense first-year experience at Harvard Law School, best known for John Houseman’s Oscar-winning portrayal of the demanding Professor Kingsfield.
  • 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: The Four Preps
Triple: [Ricky Nelson (1958 album), backingVocalsBy, The Four Preps]
Generated description
The Four Preps were a popular American male vocal quartet of the 1950s and 1960s known for their smooth harmonies and hit pop songs like "26 Miles (Santa Catalina)" and "Big Man."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Four Preps
Target entity description: The Four Preps were a popular American male vocal quartet of the 1950s and 1960s known for their smooth harmonies and hit pop songs like "26 Miles (Santa Catalina)" and "Big Man."
  • A. The Freshman
    The Freshman is a 1925 silent comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as an eager but awkward college newcomer whose attempts to become popular lead to a series of humorous misadventures.
  • B. The Collegian
    The Collegian is the student-run newspaper serving the Kansas State University community with campus news, features, and opinion content.
  • C. Colegio del Aire
    Colegio del Aire is Mexico’s military aviation academy responsible for training officers and specialists for the Mexican Air Force.
  • D. The Last Graduate
    The Last Graduate is a fantasy novel by Naomi Novik that continues the Scholomance series, following magically gifted students struggling to survive their deadly school as they approach graduation.
  • E. The Paper Chase
    The Paper Chase is a 1973 American drama film (and later a TV series) about the intense first-year experience at Harvard Law School, best known for John Houseman’s Oscar-winning portrayal of the demanding Professor Kingsfield.
  • 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_69ca829a2cfc819083d591d58ec04075 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3c4b87e48190a797f5363c8f0a04 completed March 31, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cbe0e6f3c48190a0132fa90eec6420 completed March 31, 2026, 2:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cbe43f883081908768a7314409b622 completed March 31, 2026, 3:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc34c6cf6881909b28a0b6882b518d completed March 31, 2026, 8:55 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:15 p.m.