Triple

T11678550
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cotten E277554 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Elizabeth Cotten
Elizabeth Cotten was an influential American folk and blues musician and self-taught guitarist best known for her distinctive left-handed playing style and the classic song "Freight Train."
E940497 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: Elizabeth Cotten | Statement: [Cotten, hasNotableBearer, Elizabeth Cotten]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elizabeth Cotten
Context triple: [Cotten, hasNotableBearer, Elizabeth Cotten]
  • A. Lead Belly
    Lead Belly was an influential American folk and blues musician renowned for his powerful vocals, 12-string guitar playing, and vast repertoire of traditional songs that deeply shaped the mid-20th-century folk revival.
  • B. Arthur Crudup
    Arthur Crudup was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for his influential recordings that were later popularized by Elvis Presley.
  • C. Blind Willie McTell
    "Blind Willie McTell" is a 1983 Bob Dylan song, released posthumously on archival collections, that pays tribute to the blues tradition and the legendary blues musician of the same name.
  • D. Big Bill Broonzy
    Big Bill Broonzy was an influential American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter whose work helped shape the transition from rural to urban blues in the early 20th century.
  • E. McKinley Morganfield
    McKinley Morganfield was an influential American blues musician better known by his stage name Muddy Waters, often called the "father of modern Chicago blues."
  • 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: Elizabeth Cotten
Triple: [Cotten, hasNotableBearer, Elizabeth Cotten]
Generated description
Elizabeth Cotten was an influential American folk and blues musician and self-taught guitarist best known for her distinctive left-handed playing style and the classic song "Freight Train."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elizabeth Cotten
Target entity description: Elizabeth Cotten was an influential American folk and blues musician and self-taught guitarist best known for her distinctive left-handed playing style and the classic song "Freight Train."
  • A. Lead Belly
    Lead Belly was an influential American folk and blues musician renowned for his powerful vocals, 12-string guitar playing, and vast repertoire of traditional songs that deeply shaped the mid-20th-century folk revival.
  • B. Arthur Crudup
    Arthur Crudup was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for his influential recordings that were later popularized by Elvis Presley.
  • C. Blind Willie McTell
    "Blind Willie McTell" is a 1983 Bob Dylan song, released posthumously on archival collections, that pays tribute to the blues tradition and the legendary blues musician of the same name.
  • D. Big Bill Broonzy
    Big Bill Broonzy was an influential American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter whose work helped shape the transition from rural to urban blues in the early 20th century.
  • E. McKinley Morganfield
    McKinley Morganfield was an influential American blues musician better known by his stage name Muddy Waters, often called the "father of modern Chicago blues."
  • 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_69d6aafd0a448190b44da30af8c6c519 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a46000a48190888ad1a6ade052e3 completed April 10, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ef14007dd08190b60640be9949ca26 completed April 27, 2026, 7:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ef35527f908190b681afdae3aec319 completed April 27, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ef51ec07ec8190b5cd97cf909388f0 completed April 27, 2026, 12:09 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:40 p.m.