Triple

T4363176
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Bowie E98709 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Man Who Sold the World
The Man Who Sold the World is a 1970 album by David Bowie that marked his shift toward darker, more experimental rock and introduced themes and sounds that would shape his later work.
E434399 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: The Man Who Sold the World | Statement: [David Bowie, notableWork, The Man Who Sold the World]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Man Who Sold the World
Context triple: [David Bowie, notableWork, The Man Who Sold the World]
  • A. You Want It Darker
    "You Want It Darker" is a critically acclaimed late-career studio album by Leonard Cohen, noted for its stark, meditative exploration of mortality, faith, and resignation.
  • B. A Moon Shaped Pool
    A Moon Shaped Pool is a critically acclaimed 2016 studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, noted for its orchestral arrangements, atmospheric production, and emotionally introspective songwriting.
  • C. Bella Union
    Bella Union is an independent British record label known for releasing critically acclaimed alternative and indie music.
  • D. Songs of Experience
    Songs of Experience is a 2017 studio album by Irish rock band U2 that continues the reflective, politically charged themes of its predecessor, Songs of Innocence.
  • E. Big Red Machine
    Big Red Machine is an indie-folk/electronic music project and supergroup co-founded by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and The National’s Aaron Dessner, known for its collaborative, experimental sound.
  • 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: The Man Who Sold the World
Triple: [David Bowie, notableWork, The Man Who Sold the World]
Generated description
The Man Who Sold the World is a 1970 album by David Bowie that marked his shift toward darker, more experimental rock and introduced themes and sounds that would shape his later work.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Man Who Sold the World
Target entity description: The Man Who Sold the World is a 1970 album by David Bowie that marked his shift toward darker, more experimental rock and introduced themes and sounds that would shape his later work.
  • A. You Want It Darker
    "You Want It Darker" is a critically acclaimed late-career studio album by Leonard Cohen, noted for its stark, meditative exploration of mortality, faith, and resignation.
  • B. A Moon Shaped Pool
    A Moon Shaped Pool is a critically acclaimed 2016 studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, noted for its orchestral arrangements, atmospheric production, and emotionally introspective songwriting.
  • C. Bella Union
    Bella Union is an independent British record label known for releasing critically acclaimed alternative and indie music.
  • D. Songs of Experience
    Songs of Experience is a 2017 studio album by Irish rock band U2 that continues the reflective, politically charged themes of its predecessor, Songs of Innocence.
  • E. Big Red Machine
    Big Red Machine is an indie-folk/electronic music project and supergroup co-founded by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and The National’s Aaron Dessner, known for its collaborative, experimental sound.
  • 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_69b3454c772081908e20173e379e8ebe completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b351e5ee308190a9271e73689b4a2b completed March 12, 2026, 11:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5dbc68534819095ce62645ca79eff completed March 14, 2026, 10:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5df8336e881908c875b8411c2fe4d completed March 14, 2026, 10:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5e0ded0288190b615364e9ae10821 completed March 14, 2026, 10:27 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:16 p.m.