Triple

T10262638
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Break My Soul E240635 entity
Predicate writer P1360 FINISHED
Object Fred McFarlane
Fred McFarlane was an American songwriter and producer best known for his work in R&B and dance music, including co-writing major hits for artists like Beyoncé and Robin S.
 E861307 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: Fred McFarlane | Statement: [Break My Soul, writer, Fred McFarlane]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Fred McFarlane
Context triple: [Break My Soul, writer, Fred McFarlane]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Gordon MacDonald
    Gordon MacDonald is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, as well as his long-term relationship with actress Holly Hunter.
  • C. David McRae
    David McRae is an author known for his work on the song "Maria Maria."
  • D. Ewen Macdonald
    Ewen Macdonald was a Presbyterian minister best known as the husband of Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
  • E. Ronald Milton MacFarlane
    Ronald Milton MacFarlane is best known as the father of American actor, animator, and "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane.
  • 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: Fred McFarlane
Triple: [Break My Soul, writer, Fred McFarlane]
Generated description
Fred McFarlane was an American songwriter and producer best known for his work in R&B and dance music, including co-writing major hits for artists like Beyoncé and Robin S.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Fred McFarlane
Target entity description: Fred McFarlane was an American songwriter and producer best known for his work in R&B and dance music, including co-writing major hits for artists like Beyoncé and Robin S.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Gordon MacDonald
    Gordon MacDonald is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, as well as his long-term relationship with actress Holly Hunter.
  • C. David McRae
    David McRae is an author known for his work on the song "Maria Maria."
  • D. Ewen Macdonald
    Ewen Macdonald was a Presbyterian minister best known as the husband of Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
  • E. Ronald Milton MacFarlane
    Ronald Milton MacFarlane is best known as the father of American actor, animator, and "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane.
  • 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_69d381a7e198819090280d5ab885d59e completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4d25dac34819099dbfad7f80507bb completed April 7, 2026, 9:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d7fb440b9c81909db46299053e11da completed April 9, 2026, 7:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d822d303888190aa556287b3b1cc03 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d859b05a3881908c97cb173d160e44 completed April 10, 2026, 2 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:32 a.m.