Triple

T15194991
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Captain Beefheart E363117 entity
Predicate realName P9233 FINISHED
Object Don Van Vliet
Don Van Vliet was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and visual artist best known for his avant-garde rock work under the stage name Captain Beefheart.
E1142822 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: Don Van Vliet | Statement: [Captain Beefheart, realName, Don Van Vliet]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Don Van Vliet
Context triple: [Captain Beefheart, realName, Don Van Vliet]
  • A. Lou Reed
    Lou Reed was an influential American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and co-founder of The Velvet Underground, known for his pioneering role in alternative and experimental music.
  • B. Tim Buckley
    Tim Buckley was an American singer-songwriter known for his experimental, genre-blending folk and jazz-influenced music in the late 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. Wayne Kramer
    Wayne Kramer is a South African–born American filmmaker best known for writing and directing gritty, character-driven crime dramas such as "The Cooler" and "Running Scared."
  • D. Arthur Lee
    Arthur Lee was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known as the visionary frontman and primary creative force behind the influential 1960s psychedelic rock band Love.
  • E. Arthur Lee
    Arthur Lee was an American diplomat and member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia who played a key role in securing French support for the United States during the Revolutionary War.
  • 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: Don Van Vliet
Triple: [Captain Beefheart, realName, Don Van Vliet]
Generated description
Don Van Vliet was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and visual artist best known for his avant-garde rock work under the stage name Captain Beefheart.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Don Van Vliet
Target entity description: Don Van Vliet was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and visual artist best known for his avant-garde rock work under the stage name Captain Beefheart.
  • A. Lou Reed
    Lou Reed was an influential American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and co-founder of The Velvet Underground, known for his pioneering role in alternative and experimental music.
  • B. Tim Buckley
    Tim Buckley was an American singer-songwriter known for his experimental, genre-blending folk and jazz-influenced music in the late 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. Wayne Kramer
    Wayne Kramer is a South African–born American filmmaker best known for writing and directing gritty, character-driven crime dramas such as "The Cooler" and "Running Scared."
  • D. Arthur Lee
    Arthur Lee was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known as the visionary frontman and primary creative force behind the influential 1960s psychedelic rock band Love.
  • E. Arthur Lee
    Arthur Lee was an American diplomat and member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia who played a key role in securing French support for the United States during the Revolutionary War.
  • 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_69d85a09a39c81908759f23268e2d408 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0067eb710819085211fd05d5fa5f0 completed April 15, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fed3304464819083732a23e650c649 completed May 9, 2026, 6:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fed46caba481908864d62936659a6d completed May 9, 2026, 6:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fed4f5be0c8190a1fb6e1a176c5208 completed May 9, 2026, 6:32 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:10 a.m.