Triple

T6899058
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Maynard Ferguson E159446 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Walter Maynard Ferguson
Walter Maynard Ferguson was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader renowned for his remarkable high-note trumpet playing and energetic big band performances.
E645210 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: Walter Maynard Ferguson | Statement: [Maynard Ferguson, birthName, Walter Maynard Ferguson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Maynard Ferguson
Context triple: [Maynard Ferguson, birthName, Walter Maynard Ferguson]
  • A. Walter Findlay
    Walter Findlay is a central character on the 1970s American sitcom "Maude," known as Maude Findlay's often exasperated but loving husband.
  • B. Alex Farquharson
    Alex Farquharson is a British curator and museum director best known for leading major contemporary art institutions in the UK.
  • C. Walter Gordon
    Walter Gordon was a German theoretical physicist known for co-formulating the Klein–Gordon equation, one of the earliest relativistic wave equations in quantum mechanics.
  • D. William Norrie
    William Norrie was a Canadian politician who served as the long-time mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  • E. Walter Morrison
    Walter Morrison was an American inventor and entrepreneur best known for creating the plastic flying disc that later became the Frisbee.
  • 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: Walter Maynard Ferguson
Triple: [Maynard Ferguson, birthName, Walter Maynard Ferguson]
Generated description
Walter Maynard Ferguson was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader renowned for his remarkable high-note trumpet playing and energetic big band performances.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Maynard Ferguson
Target entity description: Walter Maynard Ferguson was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader renowned for his remarkable high-note trumpet playing and energetic big band performances.
  • A. Walter Findlay
    Walter Findlay is a central character on the 1970s American sitcom "Maude," known as Maude Findlay's often exasperated but loving husband.
  • B. Alex Farquharson
    Alex Farquharson is a British curator and museum director best known for leading major contemporary art institutions in the UK.
  • C. Walter Gordon
    Walter Gordon was a German theoretical physicist known for co-formulating the Klein–Gordon equation, one of the earliest relativistic wave equations in quantum mechanics.
  • D. William Norrie
    William Norrie was a Canadian politician who served as the long-time mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  • E. Walter Morrison
    Walter Morrison was an American inventor and entrepreneur best known for creating the plastic flying disc that later became the Frisbee.
  • 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_69c6883822e0819091e321526f20ae0a completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d95d67448190857f36b8115b03f6 completed March 27, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7ad6c3414819085b816c9455cee7a completed March 28, 2026, 10:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7ade26e24819085f431a576d29712 completed March 28, 2026, 10:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7ae9f8f648190adc5cdf08bc01d93 completed March 28, 2026, 10:34 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:24 p.m.