Triple

T10107717
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mercer E216363 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object James Mercer (musician)
James Mercer is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the indie rock band The Shins.
 E842032 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: James Mercer (musician) | Statement: [Mercer, hasNotableBearer, James Mercer (musician)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Mercer (musician)
Context triple: [Mercer, hasNotableBearer, James Mercer (musician)]
  • A. Ben Gibbard
    Ben Gibbard is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie and as a member of The Postal Service.
  • B. Rivers Cuomo
    Rivers Cuomo is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Weezer.
  • C. Nicholas Vedder
    Nicholas Vedder is a minor character in Washington Irving's short story "Rip Van Winkle," known as the patriarchal village innkeeper and habitual sitter by the tavern door.
  • D. David Pirner
    David Pirner is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Soul Asylum.
  • E. James Shannon Murphy
    James Shannon Murphy is an individual known primarily as the child of Pamela Archer.
  • 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: James Mercer (musician)
Triple: [Mercer, hasNotableBearer, James Mercer (musician)]
Generated description
James Mercer is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the indie rock band The Shins.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Mercer (musician)
Target entity description: James Mercer is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the indie rock band The Shins.
  • A. Ben Gibbard
    Ben Gibbard is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie and as a member of The Postal Service.
  • B. Rivers Cuomo
    Rivers Cuomo is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Weezer.
  • C. Nicholas Vedder
    Nicholas Vedder is a minor character in Washington Irving's short story "Rip Van Winkle," known as the patriarchal village innkeeper and habitual sitter by the tavern door.
  • D. David Pirner
    David Pirner is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Soul Asylum.
  • E. James Shannon Murphy
    James Shannon Murphy is an individual known primarily as the child of Pamela Archer.
  • 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_69ca83d039f08190b9d10363221c69fb completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdd0ca7f7c8190ba7ed37940aa933d completed April 2, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2cc0f48808190855a7f8e839ccdae completed April 5, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2cd8d611c81909085b3290eb54d16 completed April 5, 2026, 9:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2ce686da48190b32a2053b94f1d48 completed April 5, 2026, 9:04 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:03 p.m.