Triple

T10439362
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sonny Terry E246126 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Saunders Terrell
Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry, was an influential American blues and folk harmonica player renowned for his energetic, whooping style and collaborations with guitarist Brownie McGhee.
E868954 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: Saunders Terrell | Statement: [Sonny Terry, birthName, Saunders Terrell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Saunders Terrell
Context triple: [Sonny Terry, birthName, Saunders Terrell]
  • A. Alphonso Johnson
    Alphonso Johnson is an American jazz and jazz fusion bassist best known for his work with Weather Report and numerous other influential fusion and rock acts.
  • B. Charles Furthman
    Charles Furthman was an American screenwriter active during the silent and early sound film era.
  • C. Leroy Edwards
    Leroy Edwards was an American professional basketball star of the 1930s and 1940s, widely regarded as one of the era’s dominant centers and an early pioneer of the modern post game.
  • D. Maxwell Lemuel Roach
    Maxwell Lemuel Roach was a pioneering American jazz drummer and composer, renowned as a key architect of bebop and modern jazz drumming.
  • E. Orlando Woodward
    Orlando Woodward is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Woodward surname, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily available.
  • 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: Saunders Terrell
Triple: [Sonny Terry, birthName, Saunders Terrell]
Generated description
Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry, was an influential American blues and folk harmonica player renowned for his energetic, whooping style and collaborations with guitarist Brownie McGhee.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Saunders Terrell
Target entity description: Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry, was an influential American blues and folk harmonica player renowned for his energetic, whooping style and collaborations with guitarist Brownie McGhee.
  • A. Alphonso Johnson
    Alphonso Johnson is an American jazz and jazz fusion bassist best known for his work with Weather Report and numerous other influential fusion and rock acts.
  • B. Charles Furthman
    Charles Furthman was an American screenwriter active during the silent and early sound film era.
  • C. Leroy Edwards
    Leroy Edwards was an American professional basketball star of the 1930s and 1940s, widely regarded as one of the era’s dominant centers and an early pioneer of the modern post game.
  • D. Maxwell Lemuel Roach
    Maxwell Lemuel Roach was a pioneering American jazz drummer and composer, renowned as a key architect of bebop and modern jazz drumming.
  • E. Orlando Woodward
    Orlando Woodward is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Woodward surname, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily available.
  • 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_69d381bf3dc08190bf35a2643e4e8f22 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4fb9d3a888190bf490b004a16c3ee completed April 7, 2026, 12:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d90d9ed4988190b4fee055eaad39c5 completed April 10, 2026, 2:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d9107c75108190994939ab46aa642f completed April 10, 2026, 3 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d9154c922c81909991f87f89c083cd completed April 10, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:15 p.m.