Triple

T8540246
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sonny Vaccaro E202176 entity
Predicate nickname P55 FINISHED
Object Sonny
Sonny is an American former sports marketing executive best known for his pioneering work in basketball shoe endorsement deals, including helping launch Nike’s partnership with Michael Jordan.
E741093 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: Sonny | Statement: [Sonny Vaccaro, nickname, Sonny]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sonny
Context triple: [Sonny Vaccaro, nickname, Sonny]
  • A. Sonny
    Sonny is a witty, socially conscious teenager from the musical "In the Heights," known as Usnavi de la Vega’s younger cousin and bodega assistant in Washington Heights.
  • B. Sonny
    Sonny is the nickname of Sonny Siebert, a former Major League Baseball pitcher known for his successful career in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. Sonny
    Sonny is the nickname of Sonny Jurgensen, a Hall of Fame American football quarterback best known for his prolific passing career with the Washington Redskins.
  • D. Vinnie Corey
    Vinnie Corey is a menacing greaser and one of the undead antagonists who terrorize the protagonist in the horror film "Sometimes They Come Back" (1991).
  • E. Sonny Wortzik
    Sonny Wortzik is the desperate, emotionally volatile bank robber protagonist of the 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon," portrayed by Al Pacino and inspired by a real-life attempted heist.
  • 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: Sonny
Triple: [Sonny Vaccaro, nickname, Sonny]
Generated description
Sonny is an American former sports marketing executive best known for his pioneering work in basketball shoe endorsement deals, including helping launch Nike’s partnership with Michael Jordan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sonny
Target entity description: Sonny is an American former sports marketing executive best known for his pioneering work in basketball shoe endorsement deals, including helping launch Nike’s partnership with Michael Jordan.
  • A. Sonny
    Sonny is the nickname of Sonny Jurgensen, a Hall of Fame American football quarterback best known for his prolific passing career with the Washington Redskins.
  • B. Sonny
    Sonny is a witty, socially conscious teenager from the musical "In the Heights," known as Usnavi de la Vega’s younger cousin and bodega assistant in Washington Heights.
  • C. Sonny
    Sonny is the nickname of Sonny Siebert, a former Major League Baseball pitcher known for his successful career in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • D. Vinnie Corey
    Vinnie Corey is a menacing greaser and one of the undead antagonists who terrorize the protagonist in the horror film "Sometimes They Come Back" (1991).
  • E. Sonny Wortzik
    Sonny Wortzik is the desperate, emotionally volatile bank robber protagonist of the 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon," portrayed by Al Pacino and inspired by a real-life attempted heist.
  • 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_69ca832461e88190a654c5e44e233aa8 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe6dfb2bc8190a41e32eca3c824c2 completed March 31, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce6d9d06e48190a5c0cfa9779fc07c completed April 2, 2026, 1:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce6ec2d6608190a7732e999a05d565 completed April 2, 2026, 1:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce6f7948cc8190b8248e59044cf4fb completed April 2, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:18 p.m.