Triple

T4363203
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Bowie E98709 entity
Predicate associatedAct P37 FINISHED
Object Tin Machine
Tin Machine was a late-1980s rock band fronted by David Bowie that embraced a raw, hard-edged sound as a deliberate break from his polished solo work.
E434421 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: Tin Machine | Statement: [David Bowie, associatedAct, Tin Machine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tin Machine
Context triple: [David Bowie, associatedAct, Tin Machine]
  • A. Red Machine
    Red Machine is the legendary Soviet Union national ice hockey team renowned for its dominant, disciplined, and technically brilliant style of play during the Cold War era.
  • B. The Hissing of Summer Lawns
    The Hissing of Summer Lawns is a 1975 studio album by Joni Mitchell that blends jazz, pop, and experimental elements in a series of lyrically complex, character-driven songs.
  • C. Machina
    Machina is a local government area and town in northeastern Nigeria’s Yobe State, near the border with Niger.
  • D. Dream Machines
    Dream Machines is the visionary second half of Ted Nelson’s influential 1974 book that imagines interactive, hypertext-based computers as tools for personal creativity and liberation.
  • E. Bone Machine
    "Bone Machine" is the opening track of the Pixies' influential 1988 album *Surfer Rosa*, known for its raw sound and surreal, fragmented lyrics.
  • 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: Tin Machine
Triple: [David Bowie, associatedAct, Tin Machine]
Generated description
Tin Machine was a late-1980s rock band fronted by David Bowie that embraced a raw, hard-edged sound as a deliberate break from his polished solo work.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tin Machine
Target entity description: Tin Machine was a late-1980s rock band fronted by David Bowie that embraced a raw, hard-edged sound as a deliberate break from his polished solo work.
  • A. Red Machine
    Red Machine is the legendary Soviet Union national ice hockey team renowned for its dominant, disciplined, and technically brilliant style of play during the Cold War era.
  • B. The Hissing of Summer Lawns
    The Hissing of Summer Lawns is a 1975 studio album by Joni Mitchell that blends jazz, pop, and experimental elements in a series of lyrically complex, character-driven songs.
  • C. Machina
    Machina is a local government area and town in northeastern Nigeria’s Yobe State, near the border with Niger.
  • D. Dream Machines
    Dream Machines is the visionary second half of Ted Nelson’s influential 1974 book that imagines interactive, hypertext-based computers as tools for personal creativity and liberation.
  • E. Bone Machine
    "Bone Machine" is the opening track of the Pixies' influential 1988 album *Surfer Rosa*, known for its raw sound and surreal, fragmented lyrics.
  • 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_69b351e70a748190af6f1b709a0e75e6 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.