Triple

T6271176
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tap E140537 entity
Predicate featuresPerformer P1363 FINISHED
Object Howard Sims
Howard Sims was an influential American tap dancer renowned for his virtuosic rhythm tap style and his long association with New York’s Apollo Theater.
E579182 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: Howard Sims | Statement: [Tap, featuresPerformer, Howard Sims]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Sims
Context triple: [Tap, featuresPerformer, Howard Sims]
  • A. Charles Simmons
    Charles Simmons was an American author and editor known for his witty, elegantly crafted novels and his long association with The New York Times Book Review.
  • B. Warren Simmons
    Warren Simmons is an American real estate developer best known for creating San Francisco’s popular waterfront attraction Pier 39.
  • C. Michael T. Simmons
    Michael T. Simmons was a 19th-century American pioneer and early settler in the Pacific Northwest who played a key role in founding communities in what is now Washington State.
  • D. John Simmons
    John Simmons was a 19th-century American clothing manufacturer and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of Simmons University in Boston.
  • E. Richard Somers
    Richard Somers was a United States Navy officer and early American naval hero of the First Barbary War, remembered for his leadership and death during a daring 1804 explosion-ship mission at Tripoli.
  • 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: Howard Sims
Triple: [Tap, featuresPerformer, Howard Sims]
Generated description
Howard Sims was an influential American tap dancer renowned for his virtuosic rhythm tap style and his long association with New York’s Apollo Theater.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Sims
Target entity description: Howard Sims was an influential American tap dancer renowned for his virtuosic rhythm tap style and his long association with New York’s Apollo Theater.
  • A. Charles Simmons
    Charles Simmons was an American author and editor known for his witty, elegantly crafted novels and his long association with The New York Times Book Review.
  • B. Warren Simmons
    Warren Simmons is an American real estate developer best known for creating San Francisco’s popular waterfront attraction Pier 39.
  • C. Michael T. Simmons
    Michael T. Simmons was a 19th-century American pioneer and early settler in the Pacific Northwest who played a key role in founding communities in what is now Washington State.
  • D. John Simmons
    John Simmons was a 19th-century American clothing manufacturer and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of Simmons University in Boston.
  • E. Richard Somers
    Richard Somers was a United States Navy officer and early American naval hero of the First Barbary War, remembered for his leadership and death during a daring 1804 explosion-ship mission at Tripoli.
  • 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.