Triple

T15344975
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Superchunk E366892 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object Mac McCaughan
Mac McCaughan is an American musician and songwriter best known as the co-founder, singer, and guitarist of the indie rock band Superchunk and the co-founder of Merge Records.
E1151710 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: Mac McCaughan | Statement: [Superchunk, hasMember, Mac McCaughan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mac McCaughan
Context triple: [Superchunk, hasMember, Mac McCaughan]
  • A. Neil MacNeil
    Neil MacNeil was a prominent American journalist and longtime congressional correspondent for Time magazine, known for his authoritative coverage of the U.S. Congress.
  • B. Geddy Lee
    Geddy Lee is a Canadian musician best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist of the progressive rock band Rush.
  • C. Rand Pecknold
    Rand Pecknold is a longtime and highly successful American college ice hockey coach best known for building Quinnipiac University into a national powerhouse and leading the Bobcats to an NCAA championship.
  • D. Aaron Gillespie
    Aaron Gillespie is an American musician best known as the drummer and clean vocalist for Underoath and the founder, lead vocalist, and guitarist of the rock band The Almost.
  • E. Mike MacLean
    Mike MacLean is a screenwriter best known for his work on the cult sci-fi horror film "Sharktopus" and other genre projects.
  • 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: Mac McCaughan
Triple: [Superchunk, hasMember, Mac McCaughan]
Generated description
Mac McCaughan is an American musician and songwriter best known as the co-founder, singer, and guitarist of the indie rock band Superchunk and the co-founder of Merge Records.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mac McCaughan
Target entity description: Mac McCaughan is an American musician and songwriter best known as the co-founder, singer, and guitarist of the indie rock band Superchunk and the co-founder of Merge Records.
  • A. Neil MacNeil
    Neil MacNeil was a prominent American journalist and longtime congressional correspondent for Time magazine, known for his authoritative coverage of the U.S. Congress.
  • B. Geddy Lee
    Geddy Lee is a Canadian musician best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist of the progressive rock band Rush.
  • C. Rand Pecknold
    Rand Pecknold is a longtime and highly successful American college ice hockey coach best known for building Quinnipiac University into a national powerhouse and leading the Bobcats to an NCAA championship.
  • D. Aaron Gillespie
    Aaron Gillespie is an American musician best known as the drummer and clean vocalist for Underoath and the founder, lead vocalist, and guitarist of the rock band The Almost.
  • E. Mike MacLean
    Mike MacLean is a screenwriter best known for his work on the cult sci-fi horror film "Sharktopus" and other genre projects.
  • 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_69d85a1355608190a6673ddb67231d54 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e03e163a3c8190ab933411372c1573 completed April 16, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff01f931408190828d87567cecaceb completed May 9, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff034de0508190aea8068e9c3d04d3 completed May 9, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff03c0ebc081908b1a132256e9d004 completed May 9, 2026, 9:52 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:17 a.m.