Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject This Mortal Coil E278924 entity
Predicate member P10 FINISHED
Object Howard Devoto
Howard Devoto is an English singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the influential post-punk band Magazine and an early member of the Buzzcocks.
E942226 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: Howard Devoto | Statement: [This Mortal Coil, member, Howard Devoto]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Devoto
Context triple: [This Mortal Coil, member, Howard Devoto]
  • A. Sid Colin
    Sid Colin was a British comedy writer and screenwriter known for his work on films and popular radio and television shows in the mid-20th century.
  • B. John Squire
    John Squire is an English musician and visual artist best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the influential alternative rock band The Stone Roses.
  • C. Richard Butler
    Richard Butler was an American Revolutionary War officer and frontiersman whose military service on the early western frontier led to several U.S. counties being named in his honor.
  • D. Richard Butler
    Richard Butler is an Australian diplomat best known for leading United Nations weapons inspection efforts in Iraq during the late 1990s.
  • E. Morrissey
    Morrissey is an English singer, songwriter, and former frontman of the influential alternative rock band The Smiths, known for his distinctive baritone voice, literate and melancholic lyrics, and significant impact on indie and alternative music.
  • 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: Howard Devoto
Triple: [This Mortal Coil, member, Howard Devoto]
Generated description
Howard Devoto is an English singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the influential post-punk band Magazine and an early member of the Buzzcocks.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Devoto
Target entity description: Howard Devoto is an English singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the influential post-punk band Magazine and an early member of the Buzzcocks.
  • A. Sid Colin
    Sid Colin was a British comedy writer and screenwriter known for his work on films and popular radio and television shows in the mid-20th century.
  • B. John Squire
    John Squire is an English musician and visual artist best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the influential alternative rock band The Stone Roses.
  • C. Richard Butler
    Richard Butler was an American Revolutionary War officer and frontiersman whose military service on the early western frontier led to several U.S. counties being named in his honor.
  • D. Richard Butler
    Richard Butler is an Australian diplomat best known for leading United Nations weapons inspection efforts in Iraq during the late 1990s.
  • E. Morrissey
    Morrissey is an English singer, songwriter, and former frontman of the influential alternative rock band The Smiths, known for his distinctive baritone voice, literate and melancholic lyrics, and significant impact on indie and alternative music.
  • 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_69d6aaffec6881908bead509e8621742 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a4d94de08190a7184cf26d8cb94e completed April 10, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ef83f98fc481908015df3c4e5d7ed3 completed April 27, 2026, 3:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ef9b68309081909f3f614efeeb2ab1 completed April 27, 2026, 5:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69efd6aba82c81909ff22e6b26db3cfe completed April 27, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:41 p.m.