Triple

T10357727
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dominick Napolitano E244044 entity
Predicate nickname P55 FINISHED
Object Sonny Black
Sonny Black was the underworld nickname of Dominick Napolitano, a prominent Bonanno crime family capo involved in the infamous Donnie Brasco FBI infiltration case.
 E858531 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 Black | Statement: [Dominick Napolitano, nickname, Sonny Black]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sonny Black
Context triple: [Dominick Napolitano, nickname, Sonny Black]
  • A. Sonny
    Sonny is the nickname of Sonny Siebert, a former Major League Baseball pitcher known for his successful career in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Sonny
    Sonny is a fictional professional football general manager portrayed by Kevin Costner in the 2014 sports drama film "Draft Day."
  • E. Sonny
    Sonny is a central character in the television drama series "Treme," which explores life and music in post-Katrina New Orleans.
  • 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 Black
Triple: [Dominick Napolitano, nickname, Sonny Black]
Generated description
Sonny Black was the underworld nickname of Dominick Napolitano, a prominent Bonanno crime family capo involved in the infamous Donnie Brasco FBI infiltration case.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sonny Black
Target entity description: Sonny Black was the underworld nickname of Dominick Napolitano, a prominent Bonanno crime family capo involved in the infamous Donnie Brasco FBI infiltration case.
  • A. Sonny
    Sonny is the nickname of Sonny Siebert, a former Major League Baseball pitcher known for his successful career in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Sonny
    Sonny is a fictional professional football general manager portrayed by Kevin Costner in the 2014 sports drama film "Draft Day."
  • D. Sonny
    Sonny is a central character in the television drama series "Treme," which explores life and music in post-Katrina New Orleans.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69d381b22b8c8190aaed476be5f872a9 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4e9563ea48190b8702b3ef497ed9a completed April 7, 2026, 11:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d750b02ae48190898f9f97ab19ce60 completed April 9, 2026, 7:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d7618ecb748190a492406eabe590d7 completed April 9, 2026, 8:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d77057affc8190b420e66560c3dfbd completed April 9, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:58 a.m.