Triple

T7294312
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Layne Staley E164478 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Staley
Staley is the surname of Layne Staley, the iconic lead vocalist of the rock band Alice in Chains.
 E99305 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: Staley | Statement: [Layne Staley, familyName, Staley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Staley
Context triple: [Layne Staley, familyName, Staley]
  • A. Stolley
    Stolley is the surname of Richard Stolley, the American journalist and founding managing editor of People magazine.
  • B. Stearnes
    Stearnes is the surname of Turkey Stearnes, a Hall of Fame Negro Leagues baseball star known as one of the greatest power hitters of his era.
  • C. Styer
    Styer is a party to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Yamashita v. Styer, which addressed the legal responsibility of military commanders for war crimes committed by their subordinates.
  • D. Staley Manufacturing Company
    Staley Manufacturing Company was an early 20th-century American food processing firm, best known for its corn products and for founding the football team that became the Chicago Bears.
  • E. Stilson
    Stilson is a given name most notably borne by Stilson Hutchins, the American newspaper publisher who founded The Washington Post.
  • 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: Staley
Triple: [Layne Staley, familyName, Staley]
Generated description
Staley is the surname of Layne Staley, the iconic lead vocalist of the rock band Alice in Chains.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Staley
Target entity description: Staley is the surname of Layne Staley, the iconic lead vocalist of the rock band Alice in Chains.
  • A. Stolley
    Stolley is the surname of Richard Stolley, the American journalist and founding managing editor of People magazine.
  • B. Stearnes
    Stearnes is the surname of Turkey Stearnes, a Hall of Fame Negro Leagues baseball star known as one of the greatest power hitters of his era.
  • C. Styer
    Styer is a party to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Yamashita v. Styer, which addressed the legal responsibility of military commanders for war crimes committed by their subordinates.
  • D. Staley Manufacturing Company chosen
    Staley Manufacturing Company was an early 20th-century American food processing firm, best known for its corn products and for founding the football team that became the Chicago Bears.
  • E. Stilson
    Stilson is a given name most notably borne by Stilson Hutchins, the American newspaper publisher who founded The Washington Post.
  • F. None of above.

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_69c6887a499881909dd23341399c59d8 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6eb8b7cc08190983739bf667057c9 completed March 27, 2026, 8:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7e543c22c8190acf8dcffd9c59520 completed March 28, 2026, 2:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7e5df5eb08190a22e53b95fbc23f2 completed March 28, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7e64fe200819081901b32523a5fa5 completed March 28, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3 p.m.