Triple

T6621000
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Paul Whiteman E149672 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Whiteman
Whiteman is a surname most famously associated with Paul Whiteman, the influential early 20th-century American bandleader and orchestral jazz pioneer.
 E601193 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: Whiteman | Statement: [Paul Whiteman, familyName, Whiteman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Whiteman
Context triple: [Paul Whiteman, familyName, Whiteman]
  • A. Tilghman
    Tilghman is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable American figures, including politicians and military officers.
  • B. Winfield
    Winfield is a masculine given name most notably borne by 19th-century American military leader Winfield Scott.
  • C. Lawrence
    Lawrence is a historic mill city in northeastern Massachusetts that developed as a major textile manufacturing center along the Merrimack River.
  • D. Lawrence
    Lawrence is the formal given name of Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder and longtime leader of Oracle Corporation.
  • E. Lawrence
    Lawrence is a small historic gold-mining town in New Zealand’s Otago region.
  • 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: Whiteman
Triple: [Paul Whiteman, familyName, Whiteman]
Generated description
Whiteman is a surname most famously associated with Paul Whiteman, the influential early 20th-century American bandleader and orchestral jazz pioneer.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Whiteman
Target entity description: Whiteman is a surname most famously associated with Paul Whiteman, the influential early 20th-century American bandleader and orchestral jazz pioneer.
  • A. Tilghman
    Tilghman is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable American figures, including politicians and military officers.
  • B. Winfield
    Winfield is a masculine given name most notably borne by 19th-century American military leader Winfield Scott.
  • C. Lawrence
    Lawrence is a historic mill city in northeastern Massachusetts that developed as a major textile manufacturing center along the Merrimack River.
  • D. Lawrence
    Lawrence is the formal given name of Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder and longtime leader of Oracle Corporation.
  • E. Lawrence
    Lawrence is a small historic gold-mining town in New Zealand’s Otago region.
  • 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_69c687ed8a9c81908bb671717cb192ef completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6af7aff44819089da6145e1ef5f76 completed March 27, 2026, 4:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6cbe2bcfc8190a3224c688443edc9 completed March 27, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6cd89b51c81909ea17d391732630e completed March 27, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6ce70442c8190a12a6c6eb76c5269 completed March 27, 2026, 6:37 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:58 p.m.