Triple

T13615594
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Doobie Brothers E325301 entity
Predicate member P10 FINISHED
Object Patrick Simmons
Patrick Simmons is an American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter best known as a founding and longtime member of the rock band The Doobie Brothers.
 E1051420 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: Patrick Simmons | Statement: [The Doobie Brothers, member, Patrick Simmons]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Patrick Simmons
Context triple: [The Doobie Brothers, member, Patrick Simmons]
  • A. Christopher Simmons
    Christopher Simmons is an American man whose death sentence as a juvenile offender led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roper v. Simmons, which abolished the death penalty for crimes committed by minors.
  • B. Michael T. Simmons
    Michael T. Simmons was a 19th-century American pioneer and early settler in the Pacific Northwest who played a key role in founding communities in what is now Washington State.
  • C. Jeremy Simmons
    Jeremy Simmons is a film editor known for his work on the cult club-scene drama "Party Monster."
  • D. John Simmons
    John Simmons was a 19th-century American clothing manufacturer and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of Simmons University in Boston.
  • E. John Simmons
    John Simmons was an American statesman who represented South Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
  • 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: Patrick Simmons
Triple: [The Doobie Brothers, member, Patrick Simmons]
Generated description
Patrick Simmons is an American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter best known as a founding and longtime member of the rock band The Doobie Brothers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Patrick Simmons
Target entity description: Patrick Simmons is an American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter best known as a founding and longtime member of the rock band The Doobie Brothers.
  • A. Christopher Simmons
    Christopher Simmons is an American man whose death sentence as a juvenile offender led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roper v. Simmons, which abolished the death penalty for crimes committed by minors.
  • B. Michael T. Simmons
    Michael T. Simmons was a 19th-century American pioneer and early settler in the Pacific Northwest who played a key role in founding communities in what is now Washington State.
  • C. Jeremy Simmons
    Jeremy Simmons is a film editor known for his work on the cult club-scene drama "Party Monster."
  • D. John Simmons
    John Simmons was a 19th-century American clothing manufacturer and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of Simmons University in Boston.
  • E. John Simmons
    John Simmons was an American statesman who represented South Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
  • 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_69d8076aae28819092cf636190ee5529 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbb0ad0a7c81909c7972187202db96 completed April 12, 2026, 2:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f77f9ecc2881909f71d71e056f9459 completed May 3, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f782c41634819096b0939c6c917259 completed May 3, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f78366eca88190be313c3a1b1e23ff completed May 3, 2026, 5:18 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:50 p.m.