Triple

T20782098

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Tommy Funderburk	`E511509`	entity
Predicate	associatedAct	`P37`	FINISHED
Object	Toto (session and backing vocals)	`—`	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: Toto (session and backing vocals) | Statement: [Tommy Funderburk, associatedAct, Toto (session and backing vocals)]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Toto (session and backing vocals)
Context triple: [Tommy Funderburk, associatedAct, Toto (session and backing vocals)]

A. Dusty Rogers
Dusty Rogers is the son of famed American singing cowboy Roy Rogers, known for preserving and performing his father's Western musical legacy.
B. Jon Tooker
Jon Tooker is an academic researcher, likely in agriculture or ecology, known for contributing scholarly work such as the study titled "The Use of Ashes."
C. Tommy Henrich
Tommy Henrich was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and clutch hitter best known for his years with the New York Yankees in the 1930s and 1940s.
D. Tommy Sands
Tommy Sands is an American pop and rock-and-roll singer and actor who rose to fame in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
E. Tommy Stinson
Tommy Stinson is an American rock musician and bassist best known as a founding member of the influential alternative rock band The Replacements and later as a longtime member of Guns N’ Roses.
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: Toto (session and backing vocals)
Target entity description: Toto (session and backing vocals) refers to the American rock band Toto in the context of their extensive use of session musicians and backing vocalists in studio recordings and live performances.

A. Dusty Rogers
Dusty Rogers is the son of famed American singing cowboy Roy Rogers, known for preserving and performing his father's Western musical legacy.
B. Jon Tooker
Jon Tooker is an academic researcher, likely in agriculture or ecology, known for contributing scholarly work such as the study titled "The Use of Ashes."
C. Tommy Henrich
Tommy Henrich was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and clutch hitter best known for his years with the New York Yankees in the 1930s and 1940s.
D. Tommy Sands
Tommy Sands is an American pop and rock-and-roll singer and actor who rose to fame in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
E. Tommy Stinson
Tommy Stinson is an American rock musician and bassist best known as a founding member of the influential alternative rock band The Replacements and later as a longtime member of Guns N’ Roses.
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_69e0b4cac7a48190a715cb3d545df2b4`	completed	April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69e6c28870e481909e7cbcdd6d4bc247`	completed	April 21, 2026, 12:19 a.m.

Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:38 p.m.