Triple

T13542702
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject I Think It’s Going to Rain Today E323427 entity
Predicate hasCoverVersionBy P11142 FINISHED
Object Thelma Houston
Thelma Houston is an American singer and actress best known for her powerful vocals and her Grammy-winning 1977 disco hit "Don't Leave Me This Way."
E1069429 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: Thelma Houston | Statement: [I Think It’s Going to Rain Today, hasCoverVersionBy, Thelma Houston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thelma Houston
Context triple: [I Think It’s Going to Rain Today, hasCoverVersionBy, Thelma Houston]
  • A. Thelma Evans
    Thelma Evans is a central character on the 1970s sitcom "Good Times," known as the smart, independent, and strong-willed daughter of the Evans family.
  • B. Erma Franklin
    Erma Franklin was an American soul and R&B singer best known for her powerful vocals and for being the older sister of Aretha Franklin.
  • C. Irma Thomas
    Irma Thomas is an acclaimed American soul and R&B singer, often called the "Soul Queen of New Orleans," known for her powerful vocals and influential recordings since the 1960s.
  • D. Cissy Houston
    Cissy Houston is an American soul and gospel singer, renowned both for her own recording and backup vocal career and as the matriarch of the Houston musical family.
  • E. Helen Forrest
    Helen Forrest was a prominent American jazz and swing singer of the big band era, known for her work with leading orchestras and her smooth, emotive vocal style.
  • 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: Thelma Houston
Triple: [I Think It’s Going to Rain Today, hasCoverVersionBy, Thelma Houston]
Generated description
Thelma Houston is an American singer and actress best known for her powerful vocals and her Grammy-winning 1977 disco hit "Don't Leave Me This Way."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thelma Houston
Target entity description: Thelma Houston is an American singer and actress best known for her powerful vocals and her Grammy-winning 1977 disco hit "Don't Leave Me This Way."
  • A. Thelma Evans
    Thelma Evans is a central character on the 1970s sitcom "Good Times," known as the smart, independent, and strong-willed daughter of the Evans family.
  • B. Erma Franklin
    Erma Franklin was an American soul and R&B singer best known for her powerful vocals and for being the older sister of Aretha Franklin.
  • C. Irma Thomas
    Irma Thomas is an acclaimed American soul and R&B singer, often called the "Soul Queen of New Orleans," known for her powerful vocals and influential recordings since the 1960s.
  • D. Cissy Houston
    Cissy Houston is an American soul and gospel singer, renowned both for her own recording and backup vocal career and as the matriarch of the Houston musical family.
  • E. Helen Forrest
    Helen Forrest was a prominent American jazz and swing singer of the big band era, known for her work with leading orchestras and her smooth, emotive vocal style.
  • 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_69d8076776248190bdf0d4fa1f85a5fc completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbafd8ba10819098faadcc6adf251e completed April 12, 2026, 2:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7ce5ecad88190b7c8236969d9abc7 completed May 3, 2026, 10:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7cef1ec7c8190aabca09b8bf92202 completed May 3, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7cf4bbb308190943a1a06715ff0a0 completed May 3, 2026, 10:42 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:45 p.m.