Triple

T17157473
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Biffy Clyro E416381 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object Ben Johnston
Ben Johnston is a Scottish musician best known as the drummer and backing vocalist for the rock band Biffy Clyro.
E1254934 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: Ben Johnston | Statement: [Biffy Clyro, hasMember, Ben Johnston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Johnston
Context triple: [Biffy Clyro, hasMember, Ben Johnston]
  • A. Frank Johnston
    Frank Johnston was a Canadian landscape painter best known as one of the original members of the Group of Seven, a pioneering modern art movement in early 20th-century Canada.
  • B. John T. Woolley
    John T. Woolley is a political scientist and academic known for co-founding the American Presidency Project, a major online archive of U.S. presidential documents.
  • C. Donald Johnston
    Donald Johnston was a 19th-century Scottish distiller best known for establishing the Laphroaig whisky distillery on the island of Islay.
  • D. Don Johnston
    Don Johnston is the jaded, middle-aged former Don Juan portrayed by Bill Murray in Jim Jarmusch’s film "Broken Flowers," who embarks on a reluctant road trip to revisit past lovers after receiving an anonymous letter about a possible son.
  • E. Charles Kirkconnell
    Charles Kirkconnell was a prominent Caymanian figure, likely a political or community leader from Cayman Brac, honored by having the island’s international airport named after him.
  • 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: Ben Johnston
Triple: [Biffy Clyro, hasMember, Ben Johnston]
Generated description
Ben Johnston is a Scottish musician best known as the drummer and backing vocalist for the rock band Biffy Clyro.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Johnston
Target entity description: Ben Johnston is a Scottish musician best known as the drummer and backing vocalist for the rock band Biffy Clyro.
  • A. Frank Johnston
    Frank Johnston was a Canadian landscape painter best known as one of the original members of the Group of Seven, a pioneering modern art movement in early 20th-century Canada.
  • B. John T. Woolley
    John T. Woolley is a political scientist and academic known for co-founding the American Presidency Project, a major online archive of U.S. presidential documents.
  • C. Donald Johnston
    Donald Johnston was a 19th-century Scottish distiller best known for establishing the Laphroaig whisky distillery on the island of Islay.
  • D. Don Johnston
    Don Johnston is the jaded, middle-aged former Don Juan portrayed by Bill Murray in Jim Jarmusch’s film "Broken Flowers," who embarks on a reluctant road trip to revisit past lovers after receiving an anonymous letter about a possible son.
  • E. Charles Kirkconnell
    Charles Kirkconnell was a prominent Caymanian figure, likely a political or community leader from Cayman Brac, honored by having the island’s international airport named after him.
  • 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_6a0148356a8081909d0c82db32b3a744 completed May 11, 2026, 3:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a014b63380c8190a5c23b7a7751bc7e completed May 11, 2026, 3:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a014da3b3548190a1ee5a969884d1d0 completed May 11, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:37 a.m.