Triple
T18973688
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Merle Travis |
E464235
|
entity |
| Predicate | associatedAct |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Tex Williams |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Tex Williams | Statement: [Merle Travis, associatedAct, Tex Williams]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tex Williams Context triple: [Merle Travis, associatedAct, Tex Williams]
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A.
Tex Williams
chosen
Tex Williams was an American Western swing singer and bandleader best known for his 1947 talking-blues hit "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)."
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B.
Don Williamson
Don Williamson was an American businessman and politician who served as the controversial mayor of Flint, Michigan in the 2000s.
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C.
Johnny Wilcox
Johnny Wilcox is a flamboyant, troubled former child star and TV host in the film "Okja," known for his conflicted role in promoting a controversial multinational corporation’s genetically engineered super-pig program.
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D.
Herb Williams
Herb Williams is a former American professional basketball player and coach best known for his long NBA career as a center and forward, particularly with the Indiana Pacers and New York Knicks.
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E.
Nat Wartels
Nat Wartels was a publisher best known as a co-founder and driving force behind the American publishing house Crown Publishers.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69d8dd008af48190a97ff1c6488edf1b |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5d61d7728819096f0baea75658a6a |
completed | April 20, 2026, 7:30 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, noon