Triple

T11170117
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Cat's Meow E264251 entity
Predicate musicBy P1952 FINISHED
Object Ian Whitcomb
Ian Whitcomb was a British-born singer, songwriter, and music historian best known for his 1960s pop hit "You Turn Me On" and his later work reviving early 20th-century popular music.
 E924028 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: Ian Whitcomb | Statement: [The Cat's Meow, musicBy, Ian Whitcomb]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ian Whitcomb
Context triple: [The Cat's Meow, musicBy, Ian Whitcomb]
  • A. Alan Whiting
    Alan Whiting is an astronomer known for his discovery of the Cetus Dwarf Galaxy.
  • B. Johnny Whitaker
    Johnny Whitaker is an American former child actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Family Affair" and films such as "Tom Sawyer" (1973) and "The Biscuit Eater."
  • 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. Glen Whitmann
    Glen Whitmann is a fast-talking computer hacker and conspiracy theorist character from the Transformers film series.
  • E. Don Woods
    Don Woods is an American computer programmer best known for co-creating and expanding the pioneering text adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure.
  • 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: Ian Whitcomb
Triple: [The Cat's Meow, musicBy, Ian Whitcomb]
Generated description
Ian Whitcomb was a British-born singer, songwriter, and music historian best known for his 1960s pop hit "You Turn Me On" and his later work reviving early 20th-century popular music.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ian Whitcomb
Target entity description: Ian Whitcomb was a British-born singer, songwriter, and music historian best known for his 1960s pop hit "You Turn Me On" and his later work reviving early 20th-century popular music.
  • A. Alan Whiting
    Alan Whiting is an astronomer known for his discovery of the Cetus Dwarf Galaxy.
  • B. Johnny Whitaker
    Johnny Whitaker is an American former child actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Family Affair" and films such as "Tom Sawyer" (1973) and "The Biscuit Eater."
  • 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. Glen Whitmann
    Glen Whitmann is a fast-talking computer hacker and conspiracy theorist character from the Transformers film series.
  • E. Don Woods
    Don Woods is an American computer programmer best known for co-creating and expanding the pioneering text adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure.
  • 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_69d6aa9dafac8190bd90d2c74f661aa7 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e8952e248190b0751669e8c960b7 completed April 9, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e5b795f7948190a0dd53e8e034fe58 completed April 20, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e5bb5d6e0c8190933cd3d6e83c24a2 completed April 20, 2026, 5:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e5c29d7b608190ae79bb8318211547 completed April 20, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:29 p.m.