Triple

T10515141
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Once Were Warriors E248011 entity
Predicate musicBy P1952 FINISHED
Object Mervyn Sands
Mervyn Sands is a composer and musician best known for creating the music for the film "Once Were Warriors."
 E868314 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: Mervyn Sands | Statement: [Once Were Warriors, musicBy, Mervyn Sands]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mervyn Sands
Context triple: [Once Were Warriors, musicBy, Mervyn Sands]
  • A. John Pugh
    John Pugh is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Southport from 2001 to 2017.
  • B. Richard Riley
    Richard Riley is an American politician and educator who served as U.S. Secretary of Education under President Bill Clinton and was previously governor of South Carolina.
  • C. Reginald Bevins
    Reginald Bevins was a British Conservative politician who held several ministerial posts in the mid-20th century, notably in Harold Macmillan’s government.
  • D. Ray Murray
    Ray Murray is an American hip-hop producer best known as a member of the acclaimed Atlanta production trio Organized Noize, which helped shape the sound of Southern rap and soul.
  • E. Tom Nursall
    Tom Nursall is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 2004 comedy adventure film "Without a Paddle."
  • 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: Mervyn Sands
Triple: [Once Were Warriors, musicBy, Mervyn Sands]
Generated description
Mervyn Sands is a composer and musician best known for creating the music for the film "Once Were Warriors."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mervyn Sands
Target entity description: Mervyn Sands is a composer and musician best known for creating the music for the film "Once Were Warriors."
  • A. John Pugh
    John Pugh is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Southport from 2001 to 2017.
  • B. Richard Riley
    Richard Riley is an American politician and educator who served as U.S. Secretary of Education under President Bill Clinton and was previously governor of South Carolina.
  • C. Reginald Bevins
    Reginald Bevins was a British Conservative politician who held several ministerial posts in the mid-20th century, notably in Harold Macmillan’s government.
  • D. Ray Murray
    Ray Murray is an American hip-hop producer best known as a member of the acclaimed Atlanta production trio Organized Noize, which helped shape the sound of Southern rap and soul.
  • E. Tom Nursall
    Tom Nursall is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 2004 comedy adventure film "Without a Paddle."
  • 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_69d381c4aa948190942e1d803143fb0e completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d509cbacb08190a446c864b97823ad completed April 7, 2026, 1:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d90df141488190a2674546aa437de8 completed April 10, 2026, 2:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d9107dc8448190998c4044f68a775e completed April 10, 2026, 3 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d911e7d2dc8190a67b2513607fdf98 completed April 10, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:27 p.m.