Triple

T4452578
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject If I Had a Hammer E97647 entity
Predicate lyricist P1360 FINISHED
Object Lee Hays
Lee Hays was an American folk singer, songwriter, and activist best known as a member of the influential group The Weavers and for co-writing several iconic protest and labor songs.
E439733 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: Lee Hays | Statement: [If I Had a Hammer, lyricist, Lee Hays]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lee Hays
Context triple: [If I Had a Hammer, lyricist, Lee Hays]
  • A. Jimmy Rushing
    Jimmy Rushing was an influential American jazz and blues singer best known for his powerful, blues-inflected vocals with the Count Basie Orchestra during the swing era.
  • B. Eden Ahbez
    Eden Ahbez was an American songwriter and proto-hippie figure best known for composing the standard "Nature Boy" and influencing mid-20th-century popular music with his bohemian lifestyle and mystical themes.
  • C. Big Bill Broonzy
    Big Bill Broonzy was an influential American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter whose work helped shape the transition from rural to urban blues in the early 20th century.
  • D. Joe Williams
    Joe Williams was a renowned American jazz and blues singer best known for his powerful baritone voice and celebrated recordings with the Count Basie Orchestra.
  • E. Pete Moore
    Pete Moore was an American singer, songwriter, and producer best known as the bass vocalist and key songwriter for the Motown group Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.
  • 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: Lee Hays
Triple: [If I Had a Hammer, lyricist, Lee Hays]
Generated description
Lee Hays was an American folk singer, songwriter, and activist best known as a member of the influential group The Weavers and for co-writing several iconic protest and labor songs.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lee Hays
Target entity description: Lee Hays was an American folk singer, songwriter, and activist best known as a member of the influential group The Weavers and for co-writing several iconic protest and labor songs.
  • A. Jimmy Rushing
    Jimmy Rushing was an influential American jazz and blues singer best known for his powerful, blues-inflected vocals with the Count Basie Orchestra during the swing era.
  • B. Eden Ahbez
    Eden Ahbez was an American songwriter and proto-hippie figure best known for composing the standard "Nature Boy" and influencing mid-20th-century popular music with his bohemian lifestyle and mystical themes.
  • C. Big Bill Broonzy
    Big Bill Broonzy was an influential American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter whose work helped shape the transition from rural to urban blues in the early 20th century.
  • D. Joe Williams
    Joe Williams was a renowned American jazz and blues singer best known for his powerful baritone voice and celebrated recordings with the Count Basie Orchestra.
  • E. Pete Moore
    Pete Moore was an American singer, songwriter, and producer best known as the bass vocalist and key songwriter for the Motown group Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.
  • 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_69b3454777808190b78aa9047ba1f018 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b355f49dc081908727af81b886c08d completed March 13, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b6138ea77881908381e9ea8ad2b7fe completed March 15, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b61465bb4081908a638a908c31c489 completed March 15, 2026, 2:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b6156db4a081909054f7db172315e9 completed March 15, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:33 p.m.