Triple

T18092890
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Swordfishtrombones E433015 entity
Predicate hasTrack P3284 FINISHED
Object Dave the Butcher NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Dave the Butcher | Statement: [Swordfishtrombones, hasTrack, Dave the Butcher]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dave the Butcher
Context triple: [Swordfishtrombones, hasTrack, Dave the Butcher]
  • A. Bill the Butcher
    Bill the Butcher is a ruthless, nativist gang leader and master knife-fighter in 19th-century New York City, best known as the main antagonist in the film "Gangs of New York."
  • B. Butcher
    Butcher is a common English occupational surname historically given to people who worked as meat cutters or slaughterers.
  • C. the Butcher
    The Butcher was the fearsome nickname of Jezzar Pasha, an 18th-century Ottoman governor of Acre notorious for his brutality and ruthless rule.
  • D. the Butcher
    The Butcher is a comically earnest and somewhat dim-witted character in Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark," known for his peculiar logic and role in the absurd quest for the elusive Snark.
  • E. The Butcher
    "The Butcher" is the notorious nickname of Spanish general Valeriano Weyler, remembered for his brutal reconcentration policies in Cuba during the late 19th century.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dave the Butcher
Target entity description: Dave the Butcher is a dark, experimental instrumental piece by Tom Waits from his avant-garde 1983 album "Swordfishtrombones."
  • A. Bill the Butcher
    Bill the Butcher is a ruthless, nativist gang leader and master knife-fighter in 19th-century New York City, best known as the main antagonist in the film "Gangs of New York."
  • B. Butcher
    Butcher is a common English occupational surname historically given to people who worked as meat cutters or slaughterers.
  • C. the Butcher
    The Butcher was the fearsome nickname of Jezzar Pasha, an 18th-century Ottoman governor of Acre notorious for his brutality and ruthless rule.
  • D. the Butcher
    The Butcher is a comically earnest and somewhat dim-witted character in Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark," known for his peculiar logic and role in the absurd quest for the elusive Snark.
  • E. The Butcher
    "The Butcher" is the notorious nickname of Spanish general Valeriano Weyler, remembered for his brutal reconcentration policies in Cuba during the late 19th century.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69d8b907d05c819083cc3bd6021089e6 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4dd1972a881908072990de0715547 completed April 19, 2026, 1:48 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:27 a.m.