Triple

T11747060
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Herndon Mercer E279309 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John Herndon Mercer, known professionally as Johnny Mercer, was a prominent American lyricist, songwriter, and singer who co-founded Capitol Records and wrote numerous popular standards of the Great American Songbook.
E279309 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: John | Statement: [John Herndon Mercer, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John Herndon Mercer, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
  • B. John
    John is the middle name of Samuel John Mills, an American Congregationalist minister known for his role in early 19th-century missionary movements.
  • C. John
    John is the given first name of the 19th-century English theologian and social reformer Frederick Denison Maurice.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John Eales, the renowned former Australian rugby union captain and World Cup winner.
  • E. John
    John is the common given name of American author and YouTube creator John Green, known for novels like "The Fault in Our Stars" and for co-founding the Vlogbrothers channel.
  • 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: John
Triple: [John Herndon Mercer, givenName, John]
Generated description
John Herndon Mercer, known professionally as Johnny Mercer, was a prominent American lyricist, songwriter, and singer who co-founded Capitol Records and wrote numerous popular standards of the Great American Songbook.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John Herndon Mercer, known professionally as Johnny Mercer, was a prominent American lyricist, songwriter, and singer who co-founded Capitol Records and wrote numerous popular standards of the Great American Songbook.
  • A. John chosen
    John is the formal given name of American lyricist, songwriter, and singer Johnny Mercer, a key figure in 20th-century popular music.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John H. Hammond Jr., the influential American record producer and talent scout known for discovering and promoting numerous major jazz, blues, and rock musicians.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of the American rhythm-and-blues singer and pianist known professionally as Johnny Ace.
  • D. John
    John is the given first name of the American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist known professionally as Johnny Rivers.
  • E. John
    John is the birth name of American singer-songwriter and producer Teddy Geiger, known for writing and producing hits for artists like Shawn Mendes.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d6ab01038c819080714901502c84fc completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a50763a081908597da118bd0a64e completed April 10, 2026, 7:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f0196916e081908671e79765d03778 completed April 28, 2026, 2:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f0319520dc8190817c5e75ddb7d40b completed April 28, 2026, 4:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f05aa351888190a31092e6a9aee26b completed April 28, 2026, 6:58 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:41 p.m.