Triple

T15166304
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British folk revival E362350 entity
Predicate notableFigure P4290 FINISHED
Object Ewan MacColl
Ewan MacColl was an influential British folk singer, songwriter, and playwright who played a central role in the 20th-century folk music revival.
E1141626 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: Ewan MacColl | Statement: [British folk revival, notableFigure, Ewan MacColl]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ewan MacColl
Context triple: [British folk revival, notableFigure, Ewan MacColl]
  • A. Richard Roud
    Richard Roud was an influential American film critic and programmer best known for co-founding and shaping the New York Film Festival into a major platform for international cinema.
  • B. George Melly
    George Melly was a British jazz singer, writer, and raconteur known for his flamboyant personality and contributions to both music and popular culture.
  • C. Loudon Wainwright Jr.
    Loudon Wainwright Jr. was an American journalist and editor best known for his work at Life magazine and as the father of singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III.
  • D. Rodney Porter
    Rodney Porter was a British biochemist and Nobel laureate best known for elucidating the chemical structure of antibodies, which profoundly advanced the field of immunology.
  • E. Loudon Wainwright III
    Loudon Wainwright III is an American folk singer-songwriter and humorist known for his witty, confessional songs and influential albums since the 1970s.
  • 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: Ewan MacColl
Triple: [British folk revival, notableFigure, Ewan MacColl]
Generated description
Ewan MacColl was an influential British folk singer, songwriter, and playwright who played a central role in the 20th-century folk music revival.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ewan MacColl
Target entity description: Ewan MacColl was an influential British folk singer, songwriter, and playwright who played a central role in the 20th-century folk music revival.
  • A. Richard Roud
    Richard Roud was an influential American film critic and programmer best known for co-founding and shaping the New York Film Festival into a major platform for international cinema.
  • B. George Melly
    George Melly was a British jazz singer, writer, and raconteur known for his flamboyant personality and contributions to both music and popular culture.
  • C. Loudon Wainwright Jr.
    Loudon Wainwright Jr. was an American journalist and editor best known for his work at Life magazine and as the father of singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III.
  • D. Rodney Porter
    Rodney Porter was a British biochemist and Nobel laureate best known for elucidating the chemical structure of antibodies, which profoundly advanced the field of immunology.
  • E. Loudon Wainwright III
    Loudon Wainwright III is an American folk singer-songwriter and humorist known for his witty, confessional songs and influential albums since the 1970s.
  • 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_69d85a087b7c81908baa94a53dac8d68 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0064c6244819085daf8e1eafdf3f2 completed April 15, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fec887fbf08190b42dd25a99b7770d completed May 9, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fec974f39c819081dcec5c18090cf7 completed May 9, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69feca9d1a5c8190b0c649f83a74231b completed May 9, 2026, 5:48 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:08 a.m.