Triple

T2731764
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Temptations E60329 entity
Predicate hasFormerMember P1168 FINISHED
Object Ray Davis
Ray Davis was an American bass singer best known for his work with Parliament-Funkadelic who also briefly performed with The Temptations.
 E292582 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: Ray Davis | Statement: [The Temptations, hasFormerMember, Ray Davis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ray Davis
Context triple: [The Temptations, hasFormerMember, Ray Davis]
  • A. Ray Davis
    Ray Davis is an American businessman best known as the principal owner and co-chairman of Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers.
  • B. Milton Van Dyke
    Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
  • C. Gordon Davis
    Gordon Davis is a pseudonym used by E. Howard Hunt, the American intelligence officer and author involved in the Watergate scandal.
  • D. Ray Cusick
    Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
  • E. Don Davis
    Don Davis is an American composer best known for his innovative, genre-defining film scores for The Matrix trilogy.
  • 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: Ray Davis
Triple: [The Temptations, hasFormerMember, Ray Davis]
Generated description
Ray Davis was an American bass singer best known for his work with Parliament-Funkadelic who also briefly performed with The Temptations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ray Davis
Target entity description: Ray Davis was an American bass singer best known for his work with Parliament-Funkadelic who also briefly performed with The Temptations.
  • A. Ray Davis
    Ray Davis is an American businessman best known as the principal owner and co-chairman of Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers.
  • B. Milton Van Dyke
    Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
  • C. Gordon Davis
    Gordon Davis is a pseudonym used by E. Howard Hunt, the American intelligence officer and author involved in the Watergate scandal.
  • D. Ray Cusick
    Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
  • E. Don Davis
    Don Davis is an American composer best known for his innovative, genre-defining film scores for The Matrix trilogy.
  • 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_69ab4b75cd908190b691ef0d1801acda completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdaf011548190beb9c3feee7b743f completed March 7, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afb69eeedc81908ad654de9e1259ea completed March 10, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afb703a5f8819097b71e19db11feaf completed March 10, 2026, 6:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afb7acf3588190813bde4428dfe5f4 completed March 10, 2026, 6:18 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:56 p.m.