Triple

T814933
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The New Christy Minstrels E17631 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Randy Sparks
Randy Sparks is an American musician, songwriter, and founder of the folk group The New Christy Minstrels, influential in the 1960s folk revival.
E151876 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: Randy Sparks | Statement: [The New Christy Minstrels, foundedBy, Randy Sparks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Randy Sparks
Context triple: [The New Christy Minstrels, foundedBy, Randy Sparks]
  • A. Randy Bass
    Randy Bass is an American former professional baseball player best known in Japan as a legendary power-hitting first baseman for the Hanshin Tigers in the 1980s.
  • B. Richie Roberts
    Richie Roberts is a real-life New Jersey detective and prosecutor best known for his role in bringing down drug lord Frank Lucas, a story dramatized in the film "American Gangster."
  • C. Richie Keen
    Richie Keen is an American film and television director and actor best known for directing the comedy film "Fist Fight" and for his work on various TV comedies.
  • D. Semeka Randall
    Semeka Randall is a former American college basketball star and WNBA guard best known for her standout career under coach Pat Summitt at the University of Tennessee.
  • E. Rocky Anderson
    Rocky Anderson is an American attorney and politician who served as the mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, and later became known for his outspoken progressive activism and third-party presidential run.
  • 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: Randy Sparks
Triple: [The New Christy Minstrels, foundedBy, Randy Sparks]
Generated description
Randy Sparks is an American musician, songwriter, and founder of the folk group The New Christy Minstrels, influential in the 1960s folk revival.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Randy Sparks
Target entity description: Randy Sparks is an American musician, songwriter, and founder of the folk group The New Christy Minstrels, influential in the 1960s folk revival.
  • A. Randy Bass
    Randy Bass is an American former professional baseball player best known in Japan as a legendary power-hitting first baseman for the Hanshin Tigers in the 1980s.
  • B. Richie Roberts
    Richie Roberts is a real-life New Jersey detective and prosecutor best known for his role in bringing down drug lord Frank Lucas, a story dramatized in the film "American Gangster."
  • C. Richie Keen
    Richie Keen is an American film and television director and actor best known for directing the comedy film "Fist Fight" and for his work on various TV comedies.
  • D. Semeka Randall
    Semeka Randall is a former American college basketball star and WNBA guard best known for her standout career under coach Pat Summitt at the University of Tennessee.
  • E. Rocky Anderson
    Rocky Anderson is an American attorney and politician who served as the mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, and later became known for his outspoken progressive activism and third-party presidential run.
  • 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_69a4937bcaac8190a322524ac6f45a5a completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ab5035608190bff5f3843b75e662 completed March 1, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acbf0330b4819089042160ff199336 completed March 8, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acbf873544819099d3dff98a6b2244 completed March 8, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc06483b08190b5b29f684b83f43f completed March 8, 2026, 12:18 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.