Triple

T6740256
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Johnny Ace E154061 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object John Marshall Alexander Jr.
John Marshall Alexander Jr. was an American rhythm and blues singer and pianist better known by his stage name Johnny Ace, popular in the early 1950s.
 E616824 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: John Marshall Alexander Jr. | Statement: [Johnny Ace, birthName, John Marshall Alexander Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Marshall Alexander Jr.
Context triple: [Johnny Ace, birthName, John Marshall Alexander Jr.]
  • A. Hal G. Evarts
    Hal G. Evarts was an American writer known for his Western-themed stories and screenplays in early Hollywood cinema.
  • B. William J. Hamlin
    William J. Hamlin is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Hamlin.
  • C. Thoroughgood Marshall
    Thoroughgood Marshall, better known as Thurgood Marshall, was a pioneering American civil rights lawyer and the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • D. Daniel Cady
    Daniel Cady was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and politician from New York, best known today as the father of women's rights leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
  • E. Oliver Wendell Douglas
    Oliver Wendell Douglas is the city-slicker lawyer-turned-farmer protagonist of the classic American sitcom "Green Acres."
  • 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: John Marshall Alexander Jr.
Triple: [Johnny Ace, birthName, John Marshall Alexander Jr.]
Generated description
John Marshall Alexander Jr. was an American rhythm and blues singer and pianist better known by his stage name Johnny Ace, popular in the early 1950s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Marshall Alexander Jr.
Target entity description: John Marshall Alexander Jr. was an American rhythm and blues singer and pianist better known by his stage name Johnny Ace, popular in the early 1950s.
  • A. Hal G. Evarts
    Hal G. Evarts was an American writer known for his Western-themed stories and screenplays in early Hollywood cinema.
  • B. William J. Hamlin
    William J. Hamlin is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Hamlin.
  • C. Thoroughgood Marshall
    Thoroughgood Marshall, better known as Thurgood Marshall, was a pioneering American civil rights lawyer and the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • D. Daniel Cady
    Daniel Cady was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and politician from New York, best known today as the father of women's rights leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
  • E. Oliver Wendell Douglas
    Oliver Wendell Douglas is the city-slicker lawyer-turned-farmer protagonist of the classic American sitcom "Green Acres."
  • 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_69c6880d84d8819095d19de2295f26ac completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d187c8788190b9fc1ebc9a66a520 completed March 27, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c70b0db3f481909b5281c63cc32dd1 completed March 27, 2026, 10:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c70b83f24c819091a6a2a7802c830f completed March 27, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c70f676e408190bc85a2760446d5d1 completed March 27, 2026, 11:14 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:10 p.m.