Triple

T7876042
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George Merrill E182855 entity
Predicate coWroteFor P47055 FINISHED
Object Whitney Houston E681 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Whitney Houston | Statement: [George Merrill, coWroteFor, Whitney Houston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Whitney Houston
Context triple: [George Merrill, coWroteFor, Whitney Houston]
  • A. Whitney Houston chosen
    Whitney Houston was a legendary American singer and actress renowned for her powerful voice, record-breaking hits, and status as one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
  • B. Mariah Carey
    Mariah Carey is an American singer, songwriter, and producer renowned for her five-octave vocal range, melismatic singing style, and a long string of chart-topping pop and R&B hits since the early 1990s.
  • C. Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Franklin was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist widely known as the "Queen of Soul" and celebrated for her powerful voice and profound influence on popular music.
  • D. Debby Boone
    Debby Boone is an American singer and actress best known for her 1977 hit single "You Light Up My Life," which became one of the biggest pop successes of the decade.
  • E. Cissy Houston
    Cissy Houston is an American soul and gospel singer, renowned both for her own recording and backup vocal career and as the matriarch of the Houston musical family.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target predicate: coWroteFor
Context triple: [George Merrill, coWroteFor, Whitney Houston]
  • A. coAuthorAlsoWrote
    Indicates that a person who is a co-author of one work also wrote another work, linking shared authorship across multiple creations.
  • B. hasWrittenFor
    Indicates that one entity has created written content (such as articles, stories, or texts) for or on behalf of another entity, typically a publication, organization, or platform.
  • C. hasWritingCreditOn chosen
    Indicates that an entity is credited as a writer or co-writer for a particular work or production.
  • D. wroteIn
    Indicates that an entity authored or composed something using a particular language, medium, or writing system.
  • E. workOfAuthorOf
    Indicates that one entity is a work (such as a book, article, or artwork) created by the author associated with another entity.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (4 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_69ca828a17248190b46defe758bc5ad3 completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb39aa7ca88190b88a18f6a8971e51 completed March 31, 2026, 3:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb5b7fef308190bbc74e13f4205192 completed March 31, 2026, 5:28 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69cae928e1b88190b0620f4c4f03bc7d completed March 30, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:57 p.m.