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]
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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.
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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.
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C.
Roemello Skuggs
Roemello Skuggs is the conflicted drug dealer protagonist of the 1993 crime drama film "Sugar Hill," portrayed by Wesley Snipes.
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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.
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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.