Triple

T13220013
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject So Many Pros E314724 entity
Predicate writer P1360 FINISHED
Object Fred Wesley
Fred Wesley is an American trombonist, composer, and bandleader best known for his influential work with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic, helping to shape the sound of funk music.
 E780524 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: Fred Wesley | Statement: [So Many Pros, writer, Fred Wesley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Fred Wesley
Context triple: [So Many Pros, writer, Fred Wesley]
  • A. Fred Wesley
    Fred Wesley is an American trombonist, composer, and bandleader best known for his influential work with James Brown and as a key architect of the funk genre.
  • B. Dennis Edwards
    Dennis Edwards was an American soul and R&B singer best known as a lead vocalist for The Temptations during their late-1960s and 1970s psychedelic soul era.
  • C. Otis Wilbury
    Otis Wilbury is the pseudonymous persona used by musician Jeff Lynne as a member of the supergroup Traveling Wilburys.
  • D. Eddie Kendricks
    Eddie Kendricks was an American singer and founding member of The Temptations, renowned for his distinctive falsetto lead vocals on many of the group's classic Motown hits.
  • E. Verdine White
    Verdine White is an American bassist best known as a founding member of the legendary R&B and funk band Earth, Wind & Fire.
  • 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: Fred Wesley
Triple: [So Many Pros, writer, Fred Wesley]
Generated description
Fred Wesley is an American trombonist, composer, and bandleader best known for his influential work with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic, helping to shape the sound of funk music.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Fred Wesley
Target entity description: Fred Wesley is an American trombonist, composer, and bandleader best known for his influential work with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic, helping to shape the sound of funk music.
  • A. Fred Wesley chosen
    Fred Wesley is an American trombonist, composer, and bandleader best known for his influential work with James Brown and as a key architect of the funk genre.
  • B. Dennis Edwards
    Dennis Edwards was an American soul and R&B singer best known as a lead vocalist for The Temptations during their late-1960s and 1970s psychedelic soul era.
  • C. Otis Wilbury
    Otis Wilbury is the pseudonymous persona used by musician Jeff Lynne as a member of the supergroup Traveling Wilburys.
  • D. Eddie Kendricks
    Eddie Kendricks was an American singer and founding member of The Temptations, renowned for his distinctive falsetto lead vocals on many of the group's classic Motown hits.
  • E. Verdine White
    Verdine White is an American bassist best known as a founding member of the legendary R&B and funk band Earth, Wind & Fire.
  • 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_69d806affc688190a25b6ccc588e9c72 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98cf581508190883033f0c961736a completed April 10, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6ff2282fc8190bc5037ff62e594ff completed May 3, 2026, 7:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7001924d48190af7d430cb258409a completed May 3, 2026, 7:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f700cfb43881909c903ec12b15065a completed May 3, 2026, 8:01 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:18 p.m.