Triple

T10477731
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Convoy (1978 film) E247088 entity
Predicate musicBy P1952 FINISHED
Object Bill Fries
Bill Fries, better known by his stage name C. W. McCall, was an American country singer and songwriter famed for the 1970s truck-driving hit "Convoy."
E865788 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: Bill Fries | Statement: [Convoy (1978 film), musicBy, Bill Fries]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Fries
Context triple: [Convoy (1978 film), musicBy, Bill Fries]
  • A. Bill Frieder
    Bill Frieder is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Michigan to national prominence in the 1980s before departing just prior to their 1989 NCAA championship run.
  • B. Chuck Dressen
    Chuck Dressen was an American Major League Baseball manager and former infielder best known for managing the Brooklyn Dodgers during the early 1950s.
  • C. Thomas Oaster
    Thomas Oaster is an American men's rights advocate best known for initiating and promoting the observance that became International Men's Day.
  • D. Gus Frerotte
    Gus Frerotte is a former American football quarterback best known for his long NFL career in the 1990s and 2000s, during which he played for multiple teams including the Washington Redskins and Minnesota Vikings.
  • E. John Dye
    John Dye was an American actor best known for his role as the angel Andrew on the television series "Touched by an Angel."
  • 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: Bill Fries
Triple: [Convoy (1978 film), musicBy, Bill Fries]
Generated description
Bill Fries, better known by his stage name C. W. McCall, was an American country singer and songwriter famed for the 1970s truck-driving hit "Convoy."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Fries
Target entity description: Bill Fries, better known by his stage name C. W. McCall, was an American country singer and songwriter famed for the 1970s truck-driving hit "Convoy."
  • A. Bill Frieder
    Bill Frieder is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Michigan to national prominence in the 1980s before departing just prior to their 1989 NCAA championship run.
  • B. Chuck Dressen
    Chuck Dressen was an American Major League Baseball manager and former infielder best known for managing the Brooklyn Dodgers during the early 1950s.
  • C. Thomas Oaster
    Thomas Oaster is an American men's rights advocate best known for initiating and promoting the observance that became International Men's Day.
  • D. Gus Frerotte
    Gus Frerotte is a former American football quarterback best known for his long NFL career in the 1990s and 2000s, during which he played for multiple teams including the Washington Redskins and Minnesota Vikings.
  • E. John Dye
    John Dye was an American actor best known for his role as the angel Andrew on the television series "Touched by an Angel."
  • 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_69d381c16c248190a2fe5b471e584e9c completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d509596a088190895199648ccf91a4 completed April 7, 2026, 1:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d8a01d8b888190a9137b104f0e0c0c completed April 10, 2026, 7 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d8a43ba5448190ae666168ea731e4f completed April 10, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d8a62a0e58819093a6f809585f5010 completed April 10, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:21 p.m.