Triple

T3402443
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James DeBarge E71686 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object Chico DeBarge
Chico DeBarge is an American R&B singer and member of the musical DeBarge family, known for his solo work in the 1980s and 1990s.
 E360477 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: Chico DeBarge | Statement: [James DeBarge, sibling, Chico DeBarge]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Chico DeBarge
Context triple: [James DeBarge, sibling, Chico DeBarge]
  • A. Tommy DeBarge
    Tommy DeBarge was an American musician best known as a bassist and member of the Motown family band Switch.
  • B. James DeBarge
    James DeBarge is an American R&B singer best known as a member of the family group DeBarge and for his brief, high-profile marriage to Janet Jackson in the 1980s.
  • C. Randy DeBarge
    Randy DeBarge is an American singer and bassist best known as a member of the Motown family group DeBarge, popular in the 1980s for their soulful R&B hits.
  • D. Bunny DeBarge
    Bunny DeBarge is an American singer and songwriter best known as the lone female member of the Motown family group DeBarge, which achieved success in the 1980s with soulful R&B hits.
  • E. Ralph Tresvant
    Ralph Tresvant is an American R&B singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the influential boy band New Edition and for his successful solo career in the early 1990s.
  • 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: Chico DeBarge
Triple: [James DeBarge, sibling, Chico DeBarge]
Generated description
Chico DeBarge is an American R&B singer and member of the musical DeBarge family, known for his solo work in the 1980s and 1990s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Chico DeBarge
Target entity description: Chico DeBarge is an American R&B singer and member of the musical DeBarge family, known for his solo work in the 1980s and 1990s.
  • A. Tommy DeBarge
    Tommy DeBarge was an American musician best known as a bassist and member of the Motown family band Switch.
  • B. James DeBarge
    James DeBarge is an American R&B singer best known as a member of the family group DeBarge and for his brief, high-profile marriage to Janet Jackson in the 1980s.
  • C. Randy DeBarge
    Randy DeBarge is an American singer and bassist best known as a member of the Motown family group DeBarge, popular in the 1980s for their soulful R&B hits.
  • D. Bunny DeBarge
    Bunny DeBarge is an American singer and songwriter best known as the lone female member of the Motown family group DeBarge, which achieved success in the 1980s with soulful R&B hits.
  • E. Ralph Tresvant
    Ralph Tresvant is an American R&B singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the influential boy band New Edition and for his successful solo career in the early 1990s.
  • 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_69ad85aac4808190a092c9cc8911f584 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb8e78ec8819089417666dc29f412 completed March 8, 2026, 5:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b367f0913c8190b0c45174011bec3b completed March 13, 2026, 1:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b368d21f7c819092660301b7d840db completed March 13, 2026, 1:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3694e92b8819082d54a56d901e9f8 completed March 13, 2026, 1:33 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:14 p.m.