Triple

T6505459
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Willie Dixon E149995 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object William James Dixon
William James Dixon, better known as Willie Dixon, was a highly influential American blues musician, songwriter, and producer whose work shaped the sound of Chicago blues and rock and roll.
E600703 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: William James Dixon | Statement: [Willie Dixon, fullName, William James Dixon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William James Dixon
Context triple: [Willie Dixon, fullName, William James Dixon]
  • A. William Bradford Huie
    William Bradford Huie was an American journalist and author known for his hard-hitting nonfiction books on race, war, and crime, several of which were adapted into films.
  • B. Marcus Wright
    Marcus Wright is a central human-cyborg hybrid character in the film "Terminator Salvation," whose mysterious past and conflicted nature drive much of the movie’s plot.
  • C. Maxwell Lemuel Roach
    Maxwell Lemuel Roach was a pioneering American jazz drummer and composer, renowned as a key architect of bebop and modern jazz drumming.
  • D. Charles Melvin Williams
    Charles Melvin "Cootie" Williams was an influential American jazz trumpeter and bandleader renowned for his work with Duke Ellington and his pioneering use of the plunger mute.
  • E. John Henry Patterson
    John Henry Patterson was an American industrialist and business pioneer best known for building the National Cash Register Company (NCR) into a major corporation and for innovating modern sales and management techniques.
  • 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: William James Dixon
Triple: [Willie Dixon, fullName, William James Dixon]
Generated description
William James Dixon, better known as Willie Dixon, was a highly influential American blues musician, songwriter, and producer whose work shaped the sound of Chicago blues and rock and roll.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William James Dixon
Target entity description: William James Dixon, better known as Willie Dixon, was a highly influential American blues musician, songwriter, and producer whose work shaped the sound of Chicago blues and rock and roll.
  • A. William Bradford Huie
    William Bradford Huie was an American journalist and author known for his hard-hitting nonfiction books on race, war, and crime, several of which were adapted into films.
  • B. Marcus Wright
    Marcus Wright is a central human-cyborg hybrid character in the film "Terminator Salvation," whose mysterious past and conflicted nature drive much of the movie’s plot.
  • C. Maxwell Lemuel Roach
    Maxwell Lemuel Roach was a pioneering American jazz drummer and composer, renowned as a key architect of bebop and modern jazz drumming.
  • D. Charles Melvin Williams
    Charles Melvin "Cootie" Williams was an influential American jazz trumpeter and bandleader renowned for his work with Duke Ellington and his pioneering use of the plunger mute.
  • E. John Henry Patterson
    John Henry Patterson was an American industrialist and business pioneer best known for building the National Cash Register Company (NCR) into a major corporation and for innovating modern sales and management techniques.
  • 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_69c687ef291081909d437f035eef1cda completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c69966ff708190902c88cb6b48e5d7 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6cb43db608190b785e77f6850bb6f completed March 27, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6cc96edd08190b0c0f1b49dd64160 completed March 27, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6cd8d15ec8190be5a8c5e3f201139 completed March 27, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:43 p.m.