Triple

T15681397
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ray Parker Jr. E377584 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Ray Erskine Parker Jr.
Ray Erskine Parker Jr. is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer best known for writing and performing the hit theme song to the film "Ghostbusters."
 E1171472 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: Ray Erskine Parker Jr. | Statement: [Ray Parker Jr., birthName, Ray Erskine Parker Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ray Erskine Parker Jr.
Context triple: [Ray Parker Jr., birthName, Ray Erskine Parker Jr.]
  • A. David Parker
    David Parker is an actor known for his role in the 2001 biographical television film "James Dean."
  • B. David Parker
    David Parker is an Australian politician who notably served as Treasurer of Western Australia.
  • C. David Parker
    David Parker is one of the children of acclaimed American crime novelist Robert B. Parker.
  • D. David Parker
    David Parker is a film producer known for his work on the Australian psychological thriller "In Her Skin."
  • E. Donald Dunn
    Donald Dunn was an American bass guitarist best known for his work with Booker T. & the M.G.'s and as a prominent session musician at Stax Records.
  • 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: Ray Erskine Parker Jr.
Triple: [Ray Parker Jr., birthName, Ray Erskine Parker Jr.]
Generated description
Ray Erskine Parker Jr. is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer best known for writing and performing the hit theme song to the film "Ghostbusters."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ray Erskine Parker Jr.
Target entity description: Ray Erskine Parker Jr. is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer best known for writing and performing the hit theme song to the film "Ghostbusters."
  • A. David Parker
    David Parker is an Australian politician who notably served as Treasurer of Western Australia.
  • B. David Parker
    David Parker is a film producer known for his work on the Australian psychological thriller "In Her Skin."
  • C. David Parker
    David Parker is an actor known for his role in the 2001 biographical television film "James Dean."
  • D. David Parker
    David Parker is one of the children of acclaimed American crime novelist Robert B. Parker.
  • E. Donald Dunn
    Donald Dunn was an American bass guitarist best known for his work with Booker T. & the M.G.'s and as a prominent session musician at Stax Records.
  • 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_69d85cd2e28481909d4e975bee20872f completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04f306a1c8190a819541a3cc51f5a completed April 16, 2026, 2:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff6ee2a33c81908fcd120ca670b309 completed May 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff6fd9c968819098b2552a9deb0445 completed May 9, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff708d42448190a53b90e00721eaa5 completed May 9, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:16 a.m.