Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Funk Brothers E163922 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object Jack Ashford
Jack Ashford is an American percussionist best known for his tambourine and vibraphone work on countless Motown hits as part of the label’s legendary studio band.
E653565 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: Jack Ashford | Statement: [The Funk Brothers, notableMember, Jack Ashford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jack Ashford
Context triple: [The Funk Brothers, notableMember, Jack Ashford]
  • A. Dannie Richmond
    Dannie Richmond was an American jazz drummer best known for his long and influential collaboration with bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
  • B. Danny Kortchmar
    Danny Kortchmar is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer best known for his extensive work with major singer-songwriters of the 1970s and 1980s, including James Taylor, Carole King, and Don Henley.
  • C. Jack Casady
    Jack Casady is an American bass guitarist best known as a founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, recognized for his innovative, melodic rock bass style.
  • D. Tim Welke
    Tim Welke is a former Major League Baseball umpire who served as a longtime crew chief in numerous high-profile games, including the World Series.
  • E. Roy Bittan
    Roy Bittan is an American keyboardist and longtime member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, renowned for his distinctive piano and synthesizer work on many classic rock albums.
  • 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: Jack Ashford
Triple: [The Funk Brothers, notableMember, Jack Ashford]
Generated description
Jack Ashford is an American percussionist best known for his tambourine and vibraphone work on countless Motown hits as part of the label’s legendary studio band.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jack Ashford
Target entity description: Jack Ashford is an American percussionist best known for his tambourine and vibraphone work on countless Motown hits as part of the label’s legendary studio band.
  • A. Dannie Richmond
    Dannie Richmond was an American jazz drummer best known for his long and influential collaboration with bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
  • B. Danny Kortchmar
    Danny Kortchmar is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer best known for his extensive work with major singer-songwriters of the 1970s and 1980s, including James Taylor, Carole King, and Don Henley.
  • C. Jack Casady
    Jack Casady is an American bass guitarist best known as a founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, recognized for his innovative, melodic rock bass style.
  • D. Tim Welke
    Tim Welke is a former Major League Baseball umpire who served as a longtime crew chief in numerous high-profile games, including the World Series.
  • E. Roy Bittan
    Roy Bittan is an American keyboardist and longtime member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, renowned for his distinctive piano and synthesizer work on many classic rock albums.
  • 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.