Triple

T5281106
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Christopher Cross E119498 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Geppert
Geppert is the surname of American singer-songwriter Christopher Cross, known for his soft rock hits like "Sailing" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)."
 E509328 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: Geppert | Statement: [Christopher Cross, familyName, Geppert]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Geppert
Context triple: [Christopher Cross, familyName, Geppert]
  • A. Nortrup
    Nortrup is a small municipality in Lower Saxony, Germany, situated within the Artland region.
  • B. Oberholtzer
    Oberholtzer is a German-origin surname, often associated with Mennonite and Amish families, that serves as a variant of the Overholt family name.
  • C. Hooperman
    Hooperman is an American television dramedy series from the late 1980s starring John Ritter as a San Francisco police inspector balancing his personal and professional life.
  • D. Holt
    Holt is a historic market town in the county of Norfolk, England, known for its Georgian architecture and proximity to the North Norfolk coast.
  • E. Hoppe
    Hoppe is a German surname most notably associated with Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a libertarian economist and political philosopher.
  • 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: Geppert
Triple: [Christopher Cross, familyName, Geppert]
Generated description
Geppert is the surname of American singer-songwriter Christopher Cross, known for his soft rock hits like "Sailing" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Geppert
Target entity description: Geppert is the surname of American singer-songwriter Christopher Cross, known for his soft rock hits like "Sailing" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)."
  • A. Nortrup
    Nortrup is a small municipality in Lower Saxony, Germany, situated within the Artland region.
  • B. Oberholtzer
    Oberholtzer is a German-origin surname, often associated with Mennonite and Amish families, that serves as a variant of the Overholt family name.
  • C. Hooperman
    Hooperman is an American television dramedy series from the late 1980s starring John Ritter as a San Francisco police inspector balancing his personal and professional life.
  • D. Holt
    Holt is a historic market town in the county of Norfolk, England, known for its Georgian architecture and proximity to the North Norfolk coast.
  • E. Hoppe
    Hoppe is a German surname most notably associated with Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a libertarian economist and political philosopher.
  • 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_69bd446d05a8819092ad333a3f9c8d5c completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd84c5212481909cb3b5f43c0eedc0 completed March 20, 2026, 5:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf06dd56a08190a7cfef614e5990f4 completed March 21, 2026, 9 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf08eb8a50819092df2f12679fbca0 completed March 21, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf0cd1307481909a60298929af7699 completed March 21, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:52 p.m.