Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Funk Brothers E163922 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object Robert White
Robert White was an American guitarist best known for his work as a key session musician with Motown’s house band, the Funk Brothers, contributing to numerous classic soul and R&B recordings.
 E653562 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: Robert White | Statement: [The Funk Brothers, notableMember, Robert White]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert White
Context triple: [The Funk Brothers, notableMember, Robert White]
  • A. Robert White
    Robert White was a U.S. Air Force test pilot renowned for his record-setting high-speed, high-altitude flights that helped push the boundaries of manned spaceflight.
  • B. Stephen M. White
    Stephen M. White was a prominent late-19th-century California politician and U.S. Senator known for his influential role in securing the development of the Port of Los Angeles at San Pedro.
  • C. Kevin White
    Kevin White was a prominent American politician who served as the long-time mayor of Boston from 1968 to 1984.
  • D. Kevin White
    Kevin White is a musician best known for having been an early member of the American punk rock band Rise Against.
  • E. Bob Whitehead
    Bob Whitehead is a pioneering video game designer and programmer best known as one of the co-founders of Activision and an influential early developer for the Atari 2600.
  • 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: Robert White
Triple: [The Funk Brothers, notableMember, Robert White]
Generated description
Robert White was an American guitarist best known for his work as a key session musician with Motown’s house band, the Funk Brothers, contributing to numerous classic soul and R&B recordings.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert White
Target entity description: Robert White was an American guitarist best known for his work as a key session musician with Motown’s house band, the Funk Brothers, contributing to numerous classic soul and R&B recordings.
  • A. Robert White
    Robert White was a U.S. Air Force test pilot renowned for his record-setting high-speed, high-altitude flights that helped push the boundaries of manned spaceflight.
  • B. Stephen M. White
    Stephen M. White was a prominent late-19th-century California politician and U.S. Senator known for his influential role in securing the development of the Port of Los Angeles at San Pedro.
  • C. Kevin White
    Kevin White was a prominent American politician who served as the long-time mayor of Boston from 1968 to 1984.
  • D. Kevin White
    Kevin White is a musician best known for having been an early member of the American punk rock band Rise Against.
  • E. Bob Whitehead
    Bob Whitehead is a pioneering video game designer and programmer best known as one of the co-founders of Activision and an influential early developer for the Atari 2600.
  • 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.