Triple

T14675372
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject In the Rain E344624 entity
Predicate writer P1360 FINISHED
Object Tony Hester
Tony Hester was an American soul songwriter and producer best known for crafting emotionally rich, string-laden hits for acts like The Dramatics in the 1970s.
E1113855 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: Tony Hester | Statement: [In the Rain, writer, Tony Hester]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tony Hester
Context triple: [In the Rain, writer, Tony Hester]
  • A. Lee Adams
    Lee Adams is an American lyricist best known for his long-running Broadway songwriting partnership with composer Charles Strouse, creating shows such as Bye Bye Birdie and Applause.
  • B. Lee Humphrey
    Lee Humphrey is an American former college basketball guard best known as a sharpshooting three-point specialist for the University of Florida's back-to-back national championship teams in the mid-2000s.
  • C. Mitch Henessey
    Mitch Henessey is a wisecracking private investigator and reluctant hero who partners with amnesiac assassin Charly Baltimore in the action film "The Long Kiss Goodnight."
  • D. Paul Hurst
    Paul Hurst was an American character actor and director known for his prolific appearances in Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1950s, often playing tough or comedic supporting roles.
  • E. Nathan Kingsbury
    Nathan Kingsbury was an American telecommunications executive for AT&T in the early 20th century, known for his role in shaping U.S. telephone regulation and policy.
  • 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: Tony Hester
Triple: [In the Rain, writer, Tony Hester]
Generated description
Tony Hester was an American soul songwriter and producer best known for crafting emotionally rich, string-laden hits for acts like The Dramatics in the 1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tony Hester
Target entity description: Tony Hester was an American soul songwriter and producer best known for crafting emotionally rich, string-laden hits for acts like The Dramatics in the 1970s.
  • A. Lee Adams
    Lee Adams is an American lyricist best known for his long-running Broadway songwriting partnership with composer Charles Strouse, creating shows such as Bye Bye Birdie and Applause.
  • B. Lee Humphrey
    Lee Humphrey is an American former college basketball guard best known as a sharpshooting three-point specialist for the University of Florida's back-to-back national championship teams in the mid-2000s.
  • C. Mitch Henessey
    Mitch Henessey is a wisecracking private investigator and reluctant hero who partners with amnesiac assassin Charly Baltimore in the action film "The Long Kiss Goodnight."
  • D. Paul Hurst
    Paul Hurst was an American character actor and director known for his prolific appearances in Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1950s, often playing tough or comedic supporting roles.
  • E. Nathan Kingsbury
    Nathan Kingsbury was an American telecommunications executive for AT&T in the early 20th century, known for his role in shaping U.S. telephone regulation and policy.
  • 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_69d822e283fc8190a0e4c235cf880052 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb5666e648190b5faa07076f497b8 completed April 14, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fde17c24e0819089dd9606298f5ac9 completed May 8, 2026, 1:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fde6353dec8190b8729d61e7a2a649 completed May 8, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fde72d93788190bd08326c3d2fea48 completed May 8, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:27 a.m.