Triple

T8049680
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Buckner (baritone) E187642 entity
Predicate collaboratedWith P435 FINISHED
Object Alvin Lucier
Alvin Lucier was an American experimental composer renowned for his pioneering work with acoustic phenomena, sound installation, and the physical properties of hearing.
E706531 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: Alvin Lucier | Statement: [Thomas Buckner (baritone), collaboratedWith, Alvin Lucier]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alvin Lucier
Context triple: [Thomas Buckner (baritone), collaboratedWith, Alvin Lucier]
  • A. David Tudor
    David Tudor was an influential American pianist and experimental composer renowned for his pioneering performances of avant-garde works, particularly those of John Cage, and for his innovations in live electronic music.
  • B. Terry Riley
    Terry Riley is an American composer and pioneer of minimalism whose innovative works, such as "In C," profoundly shaped contemporary classical and experimental music.
  • C. R. Murray Schafer
    R. Murray Schafer was a Canadian composer, writer, and acoustic ecologist best known for pioneering the concept of the "soundscape" and for his influential work in environmental and experimental music.
  • D. Steve Reich
    Steve Reich is an American composer and pioneer of minimal music, known for his innovative use of phasing, repetition, and rhythmic patterns in works like "Music for 18 Musicians."
  • E. Robert Karplus
    Robert Karplus was an American physicist and influential science educator known for his pioneering work in physics education research and curriculum development.
  • 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: Alvin Lucier
Triple: [Thomas Buckner (baritone), collaboratedWith, Alvin Lucier]
Generated description
Alvin Lucier was an American experimental composer renowned for his pioneering work with acoustic phenomena, sound installation, and the physical properties of hearing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alvin Lucier
Target entity description: Alvin Lucier was an American experimental composer renowned for his pioneering work with acoustic phenomena, sound installation, and the physical properties of hearing.
  • A. David Tudor
    David Tudor was an influential American pianist and experimental composer renowned for his pioneering performances of avant-garde works, particularly those of John Cage, and for his innovations in live electronic music.
  • B. Terry Riley
    Terry Riley is an American composer and pioneer of minimalism whose innovative works, such as "In C," profoundly shaped contemporary classical and experimental music.
  • C. R. Murray Schafer
    R. Murray Schafer was a Canadian composer, writer, and acoustic ecologist best known for pioneering the concept of the "soundscape" and for his influential work in environmental and experimental music.
  • D. Steve Reich
    Steve Reich is an American composer and pioneer of minimal music, known for his innovative use of phasing, repetition, and rhythmic patterns in works like "Music for 18 Musicians."
  • E. Robert Karplus
    Robert Karplus was an American physicist and influential science educator known for his pioneering work in physics education research and curriculum development.
  • 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_69ca82b15e948190a62fd7af5218426a completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3f7826288190b2f292a7d34fcd80 completed March 31, 2026, 3:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc5716934481908ec60cc9fd825ad7 completed March 31, 2026, 11:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc58ae255c8190a6a2d2f335c6cc3f completed March 31, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc5ccee5648190a8ebdf8029eded98 completed March 31, 2026, 11:46 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:24 p.m.