Triple

T3236878
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Velvet Goldmine E67874 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Brian Slade
Brian Slade is a fictional glam rock icon in the film "Velvet Goldmine," loosely inspired by David Bowie and central to the movie’s exploration of fame, identity, and sexuality in the 1970s music scene.
E340292 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: Brian Slade | Statement: [Velvet Goldmine, character, Brian Slade]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian Slade
Context triple: [Velvet Goldmine, character, Brian Slade]
  • A. Tommy Steele
    Tommy Steele is a British entertainer and rock and roll pioneer who became a popular singer, actor, and stage musical star from the late 1950s onward.
  • B. Paul Young
    Paul Young is an American politician serving as the mayor of Memphis, Tennessee.
  • C. Cliff Richard
    Cliff Richard is a British pop singer and entertainer whose career has spanned several decades, making him one of the best-selling music artists in UK history.
  • D. Murray Head
    Murray Head is an English actor and singer best known for his roles in the film "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and the musical "Chess," including the hit song "One Night in Bangkok."
  • E. Adam Faith
    Adam Faith was a British pop singer, actor, and financial journalist who became a prominent teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s.
  • 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: Brian Slade
Triple: [Velvet Goldmine, character, Brian Slade]
Generated description
Brian Slade is a fictional glam rock icon in the film "Velvet Goldmine," loosely inspired by David Bowie and central to the movie’s exploration of fame, identity, and sexuality in the 1970s music scene.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian Slade
Target entity description: Brian Slade is a fictional glam rock icon in the film "Velvet Goldmine," loosely inspired by David Bowie and central to the movie’s exploration of fame, identity, and sexuality in the 1970s music scene.
  • A. Tommy Steele
    Tommy Steele is a British entertainer and rock and roll pioneer who became a popular singer, actor, and stage musical star from the late 1950s onward.
  • B. Paul Young
    Paul Young is an American politician serving as the mayor of Memphis, Tennessee.
  • C. Cliff Richard
    Cliff Richard is a British pop singer and entertainer whose career has spanned several decades, making him one of the best-selling music artists in UK history.
  • D. Murray Head
    Murray Head is an English actor and singer best known for his roles in the film "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and the musical "Chess," including the hit song "One Night in Bangkok."
  • E. Adam Faith
    Adam Faith was a British pop singer, actor, and financial journalist who became a prominent teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s.
  • 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_69ad858d27348190abb61c280b4c86a9 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adaef29bf48190a9aa3a39f0138428 completed March 8, 2026, 5:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b277459d1081909766934ce6a56091 completed March 12, 2026, 8:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2780e41e0819080ddb26668f32838 completed March 12, 2026, 8:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b27bd238a48190b9d13ee8a8bc955d completed March 12, 2026, 8:39 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:08 p.m.