Triple

T10994176
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Blues Traveler E259820 entity
Predicate formerMember P1168 FINISHED
Object Bobby Sheehan
Bobby Sheehan was an American bassist best known as a founding member of the rock band Blues Traveler, contributing to their distinctive jam-rock sound in the late 1980s and 1990s.
E899977 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: Bobby Sheehan | Statement: [Blues Traveler, formerMember, Bobby Sheehan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bobby Sheehan
Context triple: [Blues Traveler, formerMember, Bobby Sheehan]
  • A. Brendan Nolan
    Brendan Nolan is a notable individual who shares the surname Nolan, though specific widely recognized details about his life or achievements are not clearly established.
  • B. Seamus Egan
    Seamus Egan is an Irish-American musician and composer best known as a founding member of the Celtic band Solas and for his influential work in contemporary Irish traditional music.
  • C. Brendan Buckley
    Brendan Buckley is a professional music producer and drummer best known for his work with major pop artists such as Shakira.
  • D. Johnny Kilbane
    Johnny Kilbane was an American featherweight boxer renowned for his exceptionally long reign as world featherweight champion in the early 20th century.
  • E. Brendan O'Carroll
    Brendan O'Carroll is an Irish comedian, actor, and writer best known as the creator and star of the sitcom "Mrs. Brown's Boys."
  • 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: Bobby Sheehan
Triple: [Blues Traveler, formerMember, Bobby Sheehan]
Generated description
Bobby Sheehan was an American bassist best known as a founding member of the rock band Blues Traveler, contributing to their distinctive jam-rock sound in the late 1980s and 1990s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bobby Sheehan
Target entity description: Bobby Sheehan was an American bassist best known as a founding member of the rock band Blues Traveler, contributing to their distinctive jam-rock sound in the late 1980s and 1990s.
  • A. Brendan Nolan
    Brendan Nolan is a notable individual who shares the surname Nolan, though specific widely recognized details about his life or achievements are not clearly established.
  • B. Seamus Egan
    Seamus Egan is an Irish-American musician and composer best known as a founding member of the Celtic band Solas and for his influential work in contemporary Irish traditional music.
  • C. Brendan Buckley
    Brendan Buckley is a professional music producer and drummer best known for his work with major pop artists such as Shakira.
  • D. Johnny Kilbane
    Johnny Kilbane was an American featherweight boxer renowned for his exceptionally long reign as world featherweight champion in the early 20th century.
  • E. Brendan O'Carroll
    Brendan O'Carroll is an Irish comedian, actor, and writer best known as the creator and star of the sitcom "Mrs. Brown's Boys."
  • 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_69d6aa8a6a548190a750f944ccdc8064 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d795d460d88190bff918d6dfdb0f93 completed April 9, 2026, 12:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e374762c748190a8c83f3d6fa7b1d3 completed April 18, 2026, 12:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e37ab6ca788190ac41f9494ad9a47f completed April 18, 2026, 12:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e37c9439fc8190a69cfb1a13da4c19 completed April 18, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:24 p.m.