Triple

T12551858
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject They're Playing Our Song E300115 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Vernon Gersch
Vernon Gersch is a central character in the musical "They're Playing Our Song," portrayed as a successful but neurotic composer whose relationship with a quirky lyricist drives the story.
E1056370 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: Vernon Gersch | Statement: [They're Playing Our Song, hasCharacter, Vernon Gersch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vernon Gersch
Context triple: [They're Playing Our Song, hasCharacter, Vernon Gersch]
  • A. Leonard Gershe
    Leonard Gershe was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his work on stage and film musicals, including the screenplay for "Funny Face."
  • B. Vic Feldman
    Vic Feldman was a British-born jazz multi-instrumentalist, best known as a virtuoso vibraphonist, pianist, and drummer who worked with leading figures like Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderley.
  • C. Vern Schillinger
    Vern Schillinger is a fictional white supremacist prison leader and one of the primary antagonists on the HBO series "Oz," portrayed by actor J.K. Simmons.
  • D. Bernard Gersten
    Bernard Gersten was a prominent American theatrical producer and longtime executive producer of Lincoln Center Theater, known for championing ambitious and innovative stage productions.
  • E. Harold Blum
    Harold Blum is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Blum, though specific widely known biographical details are not clearly established.
  • 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: Vernon Gersch
Triple: [They're Playing Our Song, hasCharacter, Vernon Gersch]
Generated description
Vernon Gersch is a central character in the musical "They're Playing Our Song," portrayed as a successful but neurotic composer whose relationship with a quirky lyricist drives the story.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vernon Gersch
Target entity description: Vernon Gersch is a central character in the musical "They're Playing Our Song," portrayed as a successful but neurotic composer whose relationship with a quirky lyricist drives the story.
  • A. Leonard Gershe
    Leonard Gershe was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his work on stage and film musicals, including the screenplay for "Funny Face."
  • B. Vic Feldman
    Vic Feldman was a British-born jazz multi-instrumentalist, best known as a virtuoso vibraphonist, pianist, and drummer who worked with leading figures like Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderley.
  • C. Vern Schillinger
    Vern Schillinger is a fictional white supremacist prison leader and one of the primary antagonists on the HBO series "Oz," portrayed by actor J.K. Simmons.
  • D. Bernard Gersten
    Bernard Gersten was a prominent American theatrical producer and longtime executive producer of Lincoln Center Theater, known for championing ambitious and innovative stage productions.
  • E. Harold Blum
    Harold Blum is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Blum, though specific widely known biographical details are not clearly established.
  • 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_69d6ada707008190aaec1238117c9379 completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9548444d081908f00cea1ce7032c7 completed April 10, 2026, 7:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f79d2f958c819094b3c43f8bbd362b completed May 3, 2026, 7:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f79de1ad708190b1862b9e97da6f15 completed May 3, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f79e7d50a88190b2a90094dd6d48ad completed May 3, 2026, 7:14 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:58 p.m.