Triple

T5347911
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) E124100 entity
Predicate hasBeenRecordedBy P9348 FINISHED
Object Lady Ella and Duke Ellington
Lady Ella and Duke Ellington refers to the legendary jazz partnership between vocalist Ella Fitzgerald and bandleader-pianist Duke Ellington, celebrated for their influential swing and big band recordings.
E23308 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: Lady Ella and Duke Ellington | Statement: [It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing), hasBeenRecordedBy, Lady Ella and Duke Ellington]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lady Ella and Duke Ellington
Context triple: [It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing), hasBeenRecordedBy, Lady Ella and Duke Ellington]
  • A. Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington was a pioneering American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader whose innovative work helped define the sound and global influence of 20th-century jazz.
  • B. Mercer Ellington
    Mercer Ellington was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who led the Duke Ellington Orchestra after his father’s death.
  • C. Mary Lou Williams
    Mary Lou Williams was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger whose career spanned swing, bebop, and beyond, making her one of the most important women in jazz history.
  • D. Keely Smith
    Keely Smith was an American jazz and pop singer best known for her work with Louis Prima in the 1950s and her cool, understated vocal style.
  • E. Oscar Charleston
    Oscar Charleston was an American baseball center fielder widely regarded as one of the greatest players in Negro league history, known for his combination of power, speed, and defensive brilliance.
  • 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: Lady Ella and Duke Ellington
Triple: [It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing), hasBeenRecordedBy, Lady Ella and Duke Ellington]
Generated description
Lady Ella and Duke Ellington refers to the legendary jazz partnership between vocalist Ella Fitzgerald and bandleader-pianist Duke Ellington, celebrated for their influential swing and big band recordings.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lady Ella and Duke Ellington
Target entity description: Lady Ella and Duke Ellington refers to the legendary jazz partnership between vocalist Ella Fitzgerald and bandleader-pianist Duke Ellington, celebrated for their influential swing and big band recordings.
  • A. Duke Ellington chosen
    Duke Ellington was a pioneering American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader whose innovative work helped define the sound and global influence of 20th-century jazz.
  • B. Mercer Ellington
    Mercer Ellington was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who led the Duke Ellington Orchestra after his father’s death.
  • C. Mary Lou Williams
    Mary Lou Williams was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger whose career spanned swing, bebop, and beyond, making her one of the most important women in jazz history.
  • D. Keely Smith
    Keely Smith was an American jazz and pop singer best known for her work with Louis Prima in the 1950s and her cool, understated vocal style.
  • E. Oscar Charleston
    Oscar Charleston was an American baseball center fielder widely regarded as one of the greatest players in Negro league history, known for his combination of power, speed, and defensive brilliance.
  • F. None of above.

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_69bd464be27081908807b40b75c1bbae completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd91ac1bf08190a9a575c9822de6cc completed March 20, 2026, 6:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf21cd34a08190857dd960c12fec0c completed March 21, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf227781bc819083b8aba59618cc46 completed March 21, 2026, 10:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf231d41848190b67de46bdbb38ab3 completed March 21, 2026, 11 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:01 p.m.