Triple

T10547826
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lightnin’ Hopkins E248867 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Sam Hopkins
Sam "Lightnin’" Hopkins was a highly influential American country blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for his distinctive Texas blues style and prolific recording career.
E879858 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: Sam Hopkins | Statement: [Lightnin’ Hopkins, alsoKnownAs, Sam Hopkins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Hopkins
Context triple: [Lightnin’ Hopkins, alsoKnownAs, Sam Hopkins]
  • A. Stu Hopps
    Stu Hopps is Judy Hopps' overprotective yet loving father, a carrot farmer in the animated film "Zootopia."
  • B. Richard Hopkins
    Richard Hopkins was a British television producer best known for developing and producing major entertainment formats, including the hit dance competition show Strictly Come Dancing.
  • C. Stanley Hopkins
    Stanley Hopkins is a young, earnest Scotland Yard inspector who appears as one of the recurring police characters in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.
  • D. Ben Hawkins
    Ben Hawkins is the young, enigmatic protagonist of the television series "Carnivàle," a Depression-era drifter with mysterious healing powers who becomes entangled in a cosmic struggle between good and evil.
  • E. Joel Hopkins
    Joel Hopkins is a British film director and screenwriter known for character-driven romantic comedies such as "Last Chance Harvey."
  • 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: Sam Hopkins
Triple: [Lightnin’ Hopkins, alsoKnownAs, Sam Hopkins]
Generated description
Sam "Lightnin’" Hopkins was a highly influential American country blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for his distinctive Texas blues style and prolific recording career.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Hopkins
Target entity description: Sam "Lightnin’" Hopkins was a highly influential American country blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for his distinctive Texas blues style and prolific recording career.
  • A. Stu Hopps
    Stu Hopps is Judy Hopps' overprotective yet loving father, a carrot farmer in the animated film "Zootopia."
  • B. Richard Hopkins
    Richard Hopkins was a British television producer best known for developing and producing major entertainment formats, including the hit dance competition show Strictly Come Dancing.
  • C. Stanley Hopkins
    Stanley Hopkins is a young, earnest Scotland Yard inspector who appears as one of the recurring police characters in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.
  • D. Ben Hawkins
    Ben Hawkins is the young, enigmatic protagonist of the television series "Carnivàle," a Depression-era drifter with mysterious healing powers who becomes entangled in a cosmic struggle between good and evil.
  • E. Joel Hopkins
    Joel Hopkins is a British film director and screenwriter known for character-driven romantic comedies such as "Last Chance Harvey."
  • 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_69d381c733c08190ab1dd6239f5f34ae completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d526d20ef48190ab9f70d4ce5f2a11 completed April 7, 2026, 3:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d9988fca088190b13b651985677a6a completed April 11, 2026, 12:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d99e8312188190bec3090f34a7b9b9 completed April 11, 2026, 1:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d99f50e0888190b8e7b2547e1526af completed April 11, 2026, 1:09 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:33 p.m.