Triple

T6238605
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ray Stevens E139538 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Harold Ray Ragsdale
Harold Ray Ragsdale is the birth name of Ray Stevens, an American singer, songwriter, and comedian known for his novelty songs and country-pop hits.
 E579273 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: Harold Ray Ragsdale | Statement: [Ray Stevens, birthName, Harold Ray Ragsdale]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Harold Ray Ragsdale
Context triple: [Ray Stevens, birthName, Harold Ray Ragsdale]
  • A. William Ragsdale
    William Ragsdale is an American actor best known for his lead role in the 1985 horror-comedy film "Fright Night" and its sequel.
  • B. Edwin Glenn
    Edwin Glenn was a U.S. Army officer and explorer best known for leading early 20th-century expeditions in Alaska, for whom the Glenn Highway is named.
  • C. Charles Tillot
    Charles Tillot was a 19th-century French painter associated with the Impressionist movement who participated in the early Impressionist exhibitions in Paris.
  • D. Charles Alvin Beckwith
    Charles Alvin Beckwith was a highly decorated U.S. Army Special Forces officer best known for creating and leading the elite counterterrorism unit Delta Force.
  • E. Harold McCord
    Harold McCord was a film editor active during the silent film era, known for his work on early American cinema.
  • 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: Harold Ray Ragsdale
Triple: [Ray Stevens, birthName, Harold Ray Ragsdale]
Generated description
Harold Ray Ragsdale is the birth name of Ray Stevens, an American singer, songwriter, and comedian known for his novelty songs and country-pop hits.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Harold Ray Ragsdale
Target entity description: Harold Ray Ragsdale is the birth name of Ray Stevens, an American singer, songwriter, and comedian known for his novelty songs and country-pop hits.
  • A. William Ragsdale
    William Ragsdale is an American actor best known for his lead role in the 1985 horror-comedy film "Fright Night" and its sequel.
  • B. Edwin Glenn
    Edwin Glenn was a U.S. Army officer and explorer best known for leading early 20th-century expeditions in Alaska, for whom the Glenn Highway is named.
  • C. Charles Tillot
    Charles Tillot was a 19th-century French painter associated with the Impressionist movement who participated in the early Impressionist exhibitions in Paris.
  • D. Charles Alvin Beckwith
    Charles Alvin Beckwith was a highly decorated U.S. Army Special Forces officer best known for creating and leading the elite counterterrorism unit Delta Force.
  • E. Harold McCord
    Harold McCord was a film editor active during the silent film era, known for his work on early American cinema.
  • 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_69c008b0e7ac8190808a59573ee646f3 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c063048df081909a13d16b6f6bf65d completed March 22, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c243ff29248190abbb748601039f60 completed March 24, 2026, 7:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c2461400288190ba131686752b2ab7 completed March 24, 2026, 8:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c2467575848190abf321404a8df3c4 completed March 24, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:23 p.m.