Triple

T10751064
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Boys in the Band E253571 entity
Predicate musicBy P1952 FINISHED
Object Billy Byers
Billy Byers was an American jazz trombonist, arranger, and composer known for his prolific work in big band and film music.
 E887933 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: Billy Byers | Statement: [The Boys in the Band, musicBy, Billy Byers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Billy Byers
Context triple: [The Boys in the Band, musicBy, Billy Byers]
  • A. Jonathan Byers
    Jonathan Byers is a quiet, introspective teenager and aspiring photographer from the Byers family in the supernatural horror series "Stranger Things."
  • B. Byron Bowers
    Byron Bowers is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor known for his work in television, film, and comedy specials.
  • C. Guy Weadick
    Guy Weadick was an American-born cowboy, promoter, and showman best known for creating the Calgary Stampede and helping popularize rodeo culture in Canada.
  • D. Ray Blanton
    Ray Blanton was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the late 1970s and became notorious for a clemency scandal involving the controversial pardoning of prisoners.
  • E. Buck Houghton
    Buck Houghton was an American television producer best known for his work on the original series of The Twilight Zone.
  • 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: Billy Byers
Triple: [The Boys in the Band, musicBy, Billy Byers]
Generated description
Billy Byers was an American jazz trombonist, arranger, and composer known for his prolific work in big band and film music.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Billy Byers
Target entity description: Billy Byers was an American jazz trombonist, arranger, and composer known for his prolific work in big band and film music.
  • A. Jonathan Byers
    Jonathan Byers is a quiet, introspective teenager and aspiring photographer from the Byers family in the supernatural horror series "Stranger Things."
  • B. Byron Bowers
    Byron Bowers is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor known for his work in television, film, and comedy specials.
  • C. Guy Weadick
    Guy Weadick was an American-born cowboy, promoter, and showman best known for creating the Calgary Stampede and helping popularize rodeo culture in Canada.
  • D. Ray Blanton
    Ray Blanton was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the late 1970s and became notorious for a clemency scandal involving the controversial pardoning of prisoners.
  • E. Buck Houghton
    Buck Houghton was an American television producer best known for his work on the original series of The Twilight Zone.
  • 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_69d6aa5e51e8819095f06881cecf152e completed April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d71dc0ad188190b747bf9d10cf5de5 completed April 9, 2026, 3:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69de84a63de0819085f1e982c8348811 completed April 14, 2026, 6:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69de8e6f3fac8190bcd1675978d6d6d7 completed April 14, 2026, 6:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69de8fa679cc81909cb51035e5403ce9 completed April 14, 2026, 7:04 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:15 p.m.