Triple

T5430320
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hicks E121469 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Dan Hicks
Dan Hicks was an American singer-songwriter and bandleader best known for blending jazz, country, swing, and folk in his work with the Hot Licks.
E519592 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: Dan Hicks | Statement: [Hicks, hasNotableBearer, Dan Hicks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dan Hicks
Context triple: [Hicks, hasNotableBearer, Dan Hicks]
  • A. Robert Charles Hunter
    Robert Charles Hunter is known primarily as the former husband of American actress Diane Ladd.
  • B. Chris Smither
    Chris Smither is an American folk and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his intricate fingerpicking style and introspective, lyrically rich songs.
  • C. Chris Hillman
    Chris Hillman is an American musician and songwriter best known as a pioneering member of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, helping to shape country rock.
  • D. Gene Clark
    Gene Clark was an American singer-songwriter best known as a founding member of the folk-rock band The Byrds and a key figure in the development of country rock.
  • E. Richie Furay
    Richie Furay is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as a founding member of the influential country rock band Poco and for his role in pioneering the country rock genre.
  • 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: Dan Hicks
Triple: [Hicks, hasNotableBearer, Dan Hicks]
Generated description
Dan Hicks was an American singer-songwriter and bandleader best known for blending jazz, country, swing, and folk in his work with the Hot Licks.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dan Hicks
Target entity description: Dan Hicks was an American singer-songwriter and bandleader best known for blending jazz, country, swing, and folk in his work with the Hot Licks.
  • A. Robert Charles Hunter
    Robert Charles Hunter is known primarily as the former husband of American actress Diane Ladd.
  • B. Chris Smither
    Chris Smither is an American folk and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his intricate fingerpicking style and introspective, lyrically rich songs.
  • C. Chris Hillman
    Chris Hillman is an American musician and songwriter best known as a pioneering member of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, helping to shape country rock.
  • D. Gene Clark
    Gene Clark was an American singer-songwriter best known as a founding member of the folk-rock band The Byrds and a key figure in the development of country rock.
  • E. Richie Furay
    Richie Furay is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as a founding member of the influential country rock band Poco and for his role in pioneering the country rock genre.
  • 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_69bd463c65f0819082ee6483ab4b466a completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd883e5e10819091e159dfd245e94d completed March 20, 2026, 5:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf3ac6285081909afa6e91a023f6d5 completed March 22, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf3c43ffe88190b8d2a10ea8a9a455 completed March 22, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf3ce7d6388190a9cd22f76f4420e0 completed March 22, 2026, 12:50 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:06 p.m.