Triple

T6575539
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nadia Boulanger E155551 entity
Predicate notableStudent P4838 FINISHED
Object Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomson was an influential American composer and critic known for his innovative operas, film scores, and incisive music journalism in the 20th century.
E610150 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: Virgil Thomson | Statement: [Nadia Boulanger, notableStudent, Virgil Thomson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virgil Thomson
Context triple: [Nadia Boulanger, notableStudent, Virgil Thomson]
  • A. John Harbison
    John Harbison is an American composer renowned for his orchestral, chamber, choral, and operatic works, and for his influential role in contemporary classical music.
  • B. Lennox Berkeley
    Lennox Berkeley was a 20th-century English composer known for his refined, neoclassical style and contributions to orchestral, choral, and chamber music.
  • C. Samuel Barber
    Samuel Barber was a prominent 20th-century American composer best known for his lyrical, neo-Romantic works such as "Adagio for Strings."
  • D. Lou Harrison
    Lou Harrison was an American composer known for blending Western classical traditions with non-Western musical influences, especially Indonesian gamelan.
  • E. Jerome Moross
    Jerome Moross was an American composer best known for his sweeping, Americana-infused film scores and concert works, particularly in the Western genre.
  • 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: Virgil Thomson
Triple: [Nadia Boulanger, notableStudent, Virgil Thomson]
Generated description
Virgil Thomson was an influential American composer and critic known for his innovative operas, film scores, and incisive music journalism in the 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virgil Thomson
Target entity description: Virgil Thomson was an influential American composer and critic known for his innovative operas, film scores, and incisive music journalism in the 20th century.
  • A. John Harbison
    John Harbison is an American composer renowned for his orchestral, chamber, choral, and operatic works, and for his influential role in contemporary classical music.
  • B. Lennox Berkeley
    Lennox Berkeley was a 20th-century English composer known for his refined, neoclassical style and contributions to orchestral, choral, and chamber music.
  • C. Samuel Barber
    Samuel Barber was a prominent 20th-century American composer best known for his lyrical, neo-Romantic works such as "Adagio for Strings."
  • D. Lou Harrison
    Lou Harrison was an American composer known for blending Western classical traditions with non-Western musical influences, especially Indonesian gamelan.
  • E. Jerome Moross
    Jerome Moross was an American composer best known for his sweeping, Americana-infused film scores and concert works, particularly in the Western genre.
  • 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_69c688151254819080387f87deab8fa7 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ae725f988190bacdbeb493b758cf completed March 27, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6eedbb31c819095dbbae60764b88d completed March 27, 2026, 8:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6f09ea58c8190bfd8a183581b5a5a completed March 27, 2026, 9:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6f1a0935881908afc30ce76bdf76f completed March 27, 2026, 9:07 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:53 p.m.