Triple

T8375681
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bill Evans E197568 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object William John Evans
William John Evans, better known as Bill Evans, was a highly influential American jazz pianist and composer renowned for his lyrical playing and innovative harmonic approach.
E729713 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: William John Evans | Statement: [Bill Evans, fullName, William John Evans]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William John Evans
Context triple: [Bill Evans, fullName, William John Evans]
  • A. Rudulph Evans
    Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • B. David Howell Evans
    David Howell Evans, better known as The Edge, is the lead guitarist and a founding member of the Irish rock band U2, renowned for his distinctive, effects-driven playing style.
  • C. William Dowdeswell
    William Dowdeswell was an 18th-century British Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a leading figure in the Rockingham Whig faction.
  • D. James Evans
    James Evans was a 19th-century British-Canadian missionary and linguist best known for developing the syllabic writing system used by several Indigenous languages in Canada.
  • E. Lionel Evans
    Lionel Evans is a fictional character from the film "Counterpoint," portrayed as a musician caught in the turmoil of World War II.
  • 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: William John Evans
Triple: [Bill Evans, fullName, William John Evans]
Generated description
William John Evans, better known as Bill Evans, was a highly influential American jazz pianist and composer renowned for his lyrical playing and innovative harmonic approach.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William John Evans
Target entity description: William John Evans, better known as Bill Evans, was a highly influential American jazz pianist and composer renowned for his lyrical playing and innovative harmonic approach.
  • A. Rudulph Evans
    Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • B. David Howell Evans
    David Howell Evans, better known as The Edge, is the lead guitarist and a founding member of the Irish rock band U2, renowned for his distinctive, effects-driven playing style.
  • C. William Dowdeswell
    William Dowdeswell was an 18th-century British Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a leading figure in the Rockingham Whig faction.
  • D. James Evans
    James Evans was a 19th-century British-Canadian missionary and linguist best known for developing the syllabic writing system used by several Indigenous languages in Canada.
  • E. Lionel Evans
    Lionel Evans is a fictional character from the film "Counterpoint," portrayed as a musician caught in the turmoil of World War II.
  • 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_69ca82f56730819080cec5d991c76f4c completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb80bf6b8081909b98762b1f900bef completed March 31, 2026, 8:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cde7f19ba08190a08cf5aea522c021 completed April 2, 2026, 3:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdebf944008190b7e758ac59257e22 completed April 2, 2026, 4:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cdeccedf4081909cab853ee1ff1b82 completed April 2, 2026, 4:13 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:01 p.m.