Triple

T1070267
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Duke Ellington E23308 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Mercer Ellington
Mercer Ellington was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who led the Duke Ellington Orchestra after his father’s death.
E189929 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: Mercer Ellington | Statement: [Duke Ellington, child, Mercer Ellington]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercer Ellington
Context triple: [Duke Ellington, child, Mercer Ellington]
  • A. Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington was a pioneering American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader whose innovative work helped define the sound and global influence of 20th-century jazz.
  • B. Horace Silver
    Horace Silver was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for helping define the hard bop style with blues- and gospel-infused compositions.
  • C. Erroll Garner
    Erroll Garner was an influential American jazz pianist and composer, best known for his distinctive, swinging style and his widely recorded standard "Misty."
  • D. Billy Strayhorn
    Billy Strayhorn was an American jazz composer, pianist, and arranger best known for his long collaboration with Duke Ellington and for writing standards such as "Take the 'A' Train."
  • E. Lionel Hampton
    Lionel Hampton was an influential American jazz vibraphonist, bandleader, composer, and percussionist, renowned for his work with Benny Goodman and for helping popularize the vibraphone in jazz.
  • 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: Mercer Ellington
Triple: [Duke Ellington, child, Mercer Ellington]
Generated description
Mercer Ellington was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who led the Duke Ellington Orchestra after his father’s death.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercer Ellington
Target entity description: Mercer Ellington was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who led the Duke Ellington Orchestra after his father’s death.
  • A. Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington was a pioneering American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader whose innovative work helped define the sound and global influence of 20th-century jazz.
  • B. Horace Silver
    Horace Silver was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for helping define the hard bop style with blues- and gospel-infused compositions.
  • C. Erroll Garner
    Erroll Garner was an influential American jazz pianist and composer, best known for his distinctive, swinging style and his widely recorded standard "Misty."
  • D. Billy Strayhorn
    Billy Strayhorn was an American jazz composer, pianist, and arranger best known for his long collaboration with Duke Ellington and for writing standards such as "Take the 'A' Train."
  • E. Lionel Hampton
    Lionel Hampton was an influential American jazz vibraphonist, bandleader, composer, and percussionist, renowned for his work with Benny Goodman and for helping popularize the vibraphone in jazz.
  • 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_69a493ee1f908190992b5f0d1b04459b completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b914b4908190886d6698294c6b5b completed March 1, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad718263f08190b0f03d583abdad10 completed March 8, 2026, 12:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad727514c88190bd558a7b8b8ef999 completed March 8, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad72c405b081909bff8bf621e9baec completed March 8, 2026, 12:59 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.