Triple

T6271140
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Cotton Club E140536 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Sandman Williams
Sandman Williams is a fictional character from the 1984 musical drama film "The Cotton Club," which centers on the lives of musicians, gangsters, and performers in the famous Harlem nightclub of the 1920s and 1930s.
E579175 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: Sandman Williams | Statement: [The Cotton Club, featuresCharacter, Sandman Williams]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sandman Williams
Context triple: [The Cotton Club, featuresCharacter, Sandman Williams]
  • A. Shelden Williams
    Shelden Williams is a former American professional basketball player who played in the NBA and overseas, known for his standout collegiate career at Duke University as a dominant defensive forward.
  • B. Joker Marchant
    Joker Marchant was a longtime Lakeland, Florida civic leader and parks director after whom the city’s baseball stadium, now known as Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium, was named.
  • C. Roemello Skuggs
    Roemello Skuggs is the conflicted drug dealer protagonist of the 1993 crime drama film "Sugar Hill," portrayed by Wesley Snipes.
  • D. Royce Waltman
    Royce Waltman was an American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing the Indiana State Sycamores program and leading them to multiple postseason appearances.
  • E. Bryan "Birdman" Williams
    Bryan "Birdman" Williams is an American rapper, record executive, and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and public face of the influential hip-hop label Cash Money Records.
  • 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: Sandman Williams
Triple: [The Cotton Club, featuresCharacter, Sandman Williams]
Generated description
Sandman Williams is a fictional character from the 1984 musical drama film "The Cotton Club," which centers on the lives of musicians, gangsters, and performers in the famous Harlem nightclub of the 1920s and 1930s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sandman Williams
Target entity description: Sandman Williams is a fictional character from the 1984 musical drama film "The Cotton Club," which centers on the lives of musicians, gangsters, and performers in the famous Harlem nightclub of the 1920s and 1930s.
  • A. Shelden Williams
    Shelden Williams is a former American professional basketball player who played in the NBA and overseas, known for his standout collegiate career at Duke University as a dominant defensive forward.
  • B. Joker Marchant
    Joker Marchant was a longtime Lakeland, Florida civic leader and parks director after whom the city’s baseball stadium, now known as Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium, was named.
  • C. Roemello Skuggs
    Roemello Skuggs is the conflicted drug dealer protagonist of the 1993 crime drama film "Sugar Hill," portrayed by Wesley Snipes.
  • D. Royce Waltman
    Royce Waltman was an American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing the Indiana State Sycamores program and leading them to multiple postseason appearances.
  • E. Bryan "Birdman" Williams
    Bryan "Birdman" Williams is an American rapper, record executive, and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and public face of the influential hip-hop label Cash Money Records.
  • 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_69c008cabc4081909723e2547c9d6cc0 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c063bb340c8190ab81b249cefa91ca completed March 22, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c2446629248190945f0f4f4a103bbd completed March 24, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c246b507a08190ab5423c54e2b0eb5 completed March 24, 2026, 8:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c2471ce99c8190af2305937dfacc9c completed March 24, 2026, 8:11 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:25 p.m.