Triple

T17157472
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Biffy Clyro E416381 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object James Johnston
James Johnston is a Scottish musician best known as the bassist and backing vocalist for the rock band Biffy Clyro.
E1258239 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: James Johnston | Statement: [Biffy Clyro, hasMember, James Johnston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Johnston
Context triple: [Biffy Clyro, hasMember, James Johnston]
  • A. James Johnston
    James Johnston was a militia officer who played a leadership role on the Patriot side during the American Revolutionary War, notably at the Battle of Kings Mountain.
  • B. James Johnston
    James Johnston was a Scottish statesman and diplomat who served as Secretary of State for Scotland during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • C. James Johnstone
    James Johnstone was a British newspaper proprietor best known for establishing the London daily newspaper that became the Evening Standard.
  • D. Arthur Johnston
    Arthur Johnston was an American composer and songwriter best known for his work on early Hollywood film scores and popular songs in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • E. John Johnston
    John Johnston was a 19th-century distiller credited with establishing the original operation that evolved into the renowned Lagavulin whisky distillery on Islay, Scotland.
  • 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: James Johnston
Triple: [Biffy Clyro, hasMember, James Johnston]
Generated description
James Johnston is a Scottish musician best known as the bassist and backing vocalist for the rock band Biffy Clyro.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Johnston
Target entity description: James Johnston is a Scottish musician best known as the bassist and backing vocalist for the rock band Biffy Clyro.
  • A. James Johnston
    James Johnston was a militia officer who played a leadership role on the Patriot side during the American Revolutionary War, notably at the Battle of Kings Mountain.
  • B. James Johnston
    James Johnston was a Scottish statesman and diplomat who served as Secretary of State for Scotland during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • C. James Johnstone
    James Johnstone was a British newspaper proprietor best known for establishing the London daily newspaper that became the Evening Standard.
  • D. Arthur Johnston
    Arthur Johnston was an American composer and songwriter best known for his work on early Hollywood film scores and popular songs in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • E. John Johnston
    John Johnston was a 19th-century distiller credited with establishing the original operation that evolved into the renowned Lagavulin whisky distillery on Islay, Scotland.
  • 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_69d886d279c081909f8ff1f743ddeb69 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3f40bf9ec8190b16372bcd091db9b completed April 18, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a016745f32c81909499f71920e8babe completed May 11, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a016bcdd19c81909fe5ffcc57c7c4d1 completed May 11, 2026, 5:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a016c5018e48190974c124c3433bcc6 completed May 11, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:37 a.m.