Triple

T9056597
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Magic (Pilot song) E217014 entity
Predicate songwriter P1141 FINISHED
Object Billy Lyall
Billy Lyall was a Scottish musician and songwriter best known as a member of the pop band Pilot and for his work in the 1970s UK music scene.
 E781724 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: Billy Lyall | Statement: [Magic (Pilot song), songwriter, Billy Lyall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Billy Lyall
Context triple: [Magic (Pilot song), songwriter, Billy Lyall]
  • A. Guy Stockwell
    Guy Stockwell was an American film and television actor known for his prolific character roles from the 1950s through the 1980s.
  • B. Ben Bilburn
    Ben Bilburn is a music producer known for his work on Chance the Rapper’s debut studio album "The Big Day."
  • C. Roy Stewart
    Roy Stewart was an American silent film actor known for his roles in early Westerns and adventure films during the 1910s and 1920s.
  • D. Paul Wylie
    Paul Wylie is an American figure skater best known for winning the silver medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics and later becoming a prominent professional show skater and commentator.
  • E. Roy McFarland
    Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
  • 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: Billy Lyall
Triple: [Magic (Pilot song), songwriter, Billy Lyall]
Generated description
Billy Lyall was a Scottish musician and songwriter best known as a member of the pop band Pilot and for his work in the 1970s UK music scene.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Billy Lyall
Target entity description: Billy Lyall was a Scottish musician and songwriter best known as a member of the pop band Pilot and for his work in the 1970s UK music scene.
  • A. Guy Stockwell
    Guy Stockwell was an American film and television actor known for his prolific character roles from the 1950s through the 1980s.
  • B. Ben Bilburn
    Ben Bilburn is a music producer known for his work on Chance the Rapper’s debut studio album "The Big Day."
  • C. Roy Stewart
    Roy Stewart was an American silent film actor known for his roles in early Westerns and adventure films during the 1910s and 1920s.
  • D. Paul Wylie
    Paul Wylie is an American figure skater best known for winning the silver medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics and later becoming a prominent professional show skater and commentator.
  • E. Roy McFarland
    Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
  • 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_69ca83d4425481909a319dab847724ec completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc7a75d8e881909414d745ec054182 completed April 1, 2026, 1:52 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d054413cd881908bd4aca6a69ef663 completed April 3, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d05509ea4c81909efe2b26f8f10ce5 completed April 4, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0557d073481908d5662190d513758 completed April 4, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:10 p.m.