Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Eddie Kendricks E163920 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Shoeshine Boy
"Shoeshine Boy" is a 1974 soul and R&B hit single by Eddie Kendricks that showcases his smooth falsetto style and post-Temptations solo success.
E653554 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: Shoeshine Boy | Statement: [Eddie Kendricks, notableWork, Shoeshine Boy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shoeshine Boy
Context triple: [Eddie Kendricks, notableWork, Shoeshine Boy]
  • A. Shoe-Shine
    Shoe-Shine is a 1946 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica, celebrated for its poignant portrayal of impoverished youth in postwar Rome.
  • B. "Shoe Shine Boy"
    "Shoe Shine Boy" is a 1936 jazz recording that became one of tenor saxophonist Lester Young’s earliest and most celebrated breakout performances.
  • C. The Patent Leather Kid
    The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent drama film about a cocky prizefighter whose life changes when he goes to war in World War I.
  • D. The Errand Boy
    The Errand Boy is a 19th-century rags-to-riches novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor youth striving for success through hard work and perseverance.
  • E. The Errand Boy
    The Errand Boy is a 1961 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, in which he plays a bumbling studio gofer causing chaos behind the scenes in Hollywood.
  • 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: Shoeshine Boy
Triple: [Eddie Kendricks, notableWork, Shoeshine Boy]
Generated description
"Shoeshine Boy" is a 1974 soul and R&B hit single by Eddie Kendricks that showcases his smooth falsetto style and post-Temptations solo success.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shoeshine Boy
Target entity description: "Shoeshine Boy" is a 1974 soul and R&B hit single by Eddie Kendricks that showcases his smooth falsetto style and post-Temptations solo success.
  • A. Shoe-Shine
    Shoe-Shine is a 1946 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica, celebrated for its poignant portrayal of impoverished youth in postwar Rome.
  • B. "Shoe Shine Boy"
    "Shoe Shine Boy" is a 1936 jazz recording that became one of tenor saxophonist Lester Young’s earliest and most celebrated breakout performances.
  • C. The Patent Leather Kid
    The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent drama film about a cocky prizefighter whose life changes when he goes to war in World War I.
  • D. The Errand Boy
    The Errand Boy is a 19th-century rags-to-riches novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor youth striving for success through hard work and perseverance.
  • E. The Errand Boy
    The Errand Boy is a 1961 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, in which he plays a bumbling studio gofer causing chaos behind the scenes in Hollywood.
  • 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_69c6886093b88190a254b1ce6db8bae7 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6eb6a73fc8190ae5ce81fd3e46d87 completed March 27, 2026, 8:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7db42c8d48190a548c4242b07fb40 completed March 28, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7dc794bec819094d848497bd11fc1 completed March 28, 2026, 1:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7dd8117f881908c982c33b3f0e71a completed March 28, 2026, 1:54 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:59 p.m.