Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Funk Brothers E163922 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object Joe Messina
Joe Messina was an American guitarist best known as one of Motown’s legendary session musicians, contributing to countless hits as part of the Funk Brothers.
E674407 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: Joe Messina | Statement: [The Funk Brothers, notableMember, Joe Messina]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joe Messina
Context triple: [The Funk Brothers, notableMember, Joe Messina]
  • A. John Cusimano
    John Cusimano is an American lawyer, musician, and television producer best known as the longtime husband of celebrity chef and TV host Rachael Ray.
  • B. Joe DeRita
    Joe DeRita was an American comedian best known for joining the Three Stooges in their later years as the bald, slapstick-heavy character "Curly Joe."
  • C. Ben Massarella
    Ben Massarella is an American percussionist best known for his work with the indie rock band Modest Mouse and as a co-founder of the experimental label and project Perishable Records.
  • D. Frank Santillo
    Frank Santillo was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions, including classic Westerns.
  • E. Greg Corrado
    Greg Corrado is an American computer scientist and researcher known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and deep learning, including co-founding Google Brain.
  • 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: Joe Messina
Triple: [The Funk Brothers, notableMember, Joe Messina]
Generated description
Joe Messina was an American guitarist best known as one of Motown’s legendary session musicians, contributing to countless hits as part of the Funk Brothers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joe Messina
Target entity description: Joe Messina was an American guitarist best known as one of Motown’s legendary session musicians, contributing to countless hits as part of the Funk Brothers.
  • A. John Cusimano
    John Cusimano is an American lawyer, musician, and television producer best known as the longtime husband of celebrity chef and TV host Rachael Ray.
  • B. Joe DeRita
    Joe DeRita was an American comedian best known for joining the Three Stooges in their later years as the bald, slapstick-heavy character "Curly Joe."
  • C. Ben Massarella
    Ben Massarella is an American percussionist best known for his work with the indie rock band Modest Mouse and as a co-founder of the experimental label and project Perishable Records.
  • D. Frank Santillo
    Frank Santillo was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions, including classic Westerns.
  • E. Greg Corrado
    Greg Corrado is an American computer scientist and researcher known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and deep learning, including co-founding Google Brain.
  • 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_69c861296e5c8190aa2a189e71963de9 completed March 28, 2026, 11:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c862466fd481908ea5772e76a88d95 completed March 28, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c862cae0448190859a07db338e1de7 completed March 28, 2026, 11:22 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:59 p.m.