Triple

T2781798
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Meredith Willson E61713 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Robert Meredith Willson
Robert Meredith Willson was an American composer, conductor, and playwright best known for creating the hit Broadway musical "The Music Man."
E297654 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: Robert Meredith Willson | Statement: [Meredith Willson, birthName, Robert Meredith Willson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Meredith Willson
Context triple: [Meredith Willson, birthName, Robert Meredith Willson]
  • A. John Williams Wilson
    John Williams Wilson was a 19th-century Chilean naval officer of British origin who played a key role in Chile’s southern maritime exploration and settlement.
  • B. Wheeler Dryden
    Wheeler Dryden was an English actor and film director of the silent era, best known as a half-brother of Charlie Chaplin and for his work in Chaplin’s film company.
  • C. Joseph Williams
    Joseph Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and composer best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Toto and the son of famed film composer John Williams.
  • D. Frank Oliver Howard
    Frank Oliver Howard is the full name of Frank Howard, a notable American Major League Baseball slugger and outfielder/first baseman who played primarily in the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • E. George Merrill
    George Merrill is an American songwriter best known for co-writing Whitney Houston’s hit songs “How Will I Know” and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”
  • 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: Robert Meredith Willson
Triple: [Meredith Willson, birthName, Robert Meredith Willson]
Generated description
Robert Meredith Willson was an American composer, conductor, and playwright best known for creating the hit Broadway musical "The Music Man."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Meredith Willson
Target entity description: Robert Meredith Willson was an American composer, conductor, and playwright best known for creating the hit Broadway musical "The Music Man."
  • A. John Williams Wilson
    John Williams Wilson was a 19th-century Chilean naval officer of British origin who played a key role in Chile’s southern maritime exploration and settlement.
  • B. Wheeler Dryden
    Wheeler Dryden was an English actor and film director of the silent era, best known as a half-brother of Charlie Chaplin and for his work in Chaplin’s film company.
  • C. Joseph Williams
    Joseph Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and composer best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Toto and the son of famed film composer John Williams.
  • D. Frank Oliver Howard
    Frank Oliver Howard is the full name of Frank Howard, a notable American Major League Baseball slugger and outfielder/first baseman who played primarily in the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • E. George Merrill
    George Merrill is an American songwriter best known for co-writing Whitney Houston’s hit songs “How Will I Know” and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”
  • 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_69ab4b7e43c48190997b8fc8fb1663ab completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdd9b88888190ab021afbaf3aa3c0 completed March 7, 2026, 8:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afc05f4e7881908bf5b6f7df331041 completed March 10, 2026, 6:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afc1d3bec0819087bb787b7f570ddc completed March 10, 2026, 7:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afc229caf88190a26959c27e6a1a9e completed March 10, 2026, 7:03 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:57 p.m.