Triple

T8696913
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Styx E206424 entity
Predicate member P10 FINISHED
Object Tommy Shaw
Tommy Shaw is an American rock musician, singer, and songwriter best known as a longtime guitarist and vocalist for the band Styx.
E754889 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: Tommy Shaw | Statement: [Styx, member, Tommy Shaw]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tommy Shaw
Context triple: [Styx, member, Tommy Shaw]
  • A. Tommy Thayer
    Tommy Thayer is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for the rock band Kiss, where he performs in the "Spaceman" persona originally made famous by Ace Frehley.
  • B. Rudy Sarzo
    Rudy Sarzo is a Cuban-American hard rock and heavy metal bassist best known for his work with bands like Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, and Whitesnake.
  • C. Stephen Pearcy
    Stephen Pearcy is an American singer best known as the lead vocalist and founding member of the glam metal band Ratt, prominent in the 1980s hard rock scene.
  • D. John Corabi
    John Corabi is an American hard rock singer and guitarist best known for his work with bands like Mötley Crüe, The Scream, and Ratt.
  • E. Marty Friedman
    Marty Friedman is an American guitarist renowned for his virtuosic, melodic playing style and influential work in thrash and neoclassical metal, as well as his later career in Japan as a musician and television personality.
  • 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: Tommy Shaw
Triple: [Styx, member, Tommy Shaw]
Generated description
Tommy Shaw is an American rock musician, singer, and songwriter best known as a longtime guitarist and vocalist for the band Styx.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tommy Shaw
Target entity description: Tommy Shaw is an American rock musician, singer, and songwriter best known as a longtime guitarist and vocalist for the band Styx.
  • A. Tommy Thayer
    Tommy Thayer is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for the rock band Kiss, where he performs in the "Spaceman" persona originally made famous by Ace Frehley.
  • B. Rudy Sarzo
    Rudy Sarzo is a Cuban-American hard rock and heavy metal bassist best known for his work with bands like Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, and Whitesnake.
  • C. Stephen Pearcy
    Stephen Pearcy is an American singer best known as the lead vocalist and founding member of the glam metal band Ratt, prominent in the 1980s hard rock scene.
  • D. John Corabi
    John Corabi is an American hard rock singer and guitarist best known for his work with bands like Mötley Crüe, The Scream, and Ratt.
  • E. Marty Friedman
    Marty Friedman is an American guitarist renowned for his virtuosic, melodic playing style and influential work in thrash and neoclassical metal, as well as his later career in Japan as a musician and television personality.
  • 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_69ca83555b6c8190abe930dd397e863b completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc582b04688190a439135b08e20451 completed March 31, 2026, 11:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf4287aa048190ba0263623d02b2ef completed April 3, 2026, 4:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf44e9b154819091864c7dbc8edbfb completed April 3, 2026, 4:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf4578473081909fc55632c366a56a completed April 3, 2026, 4:43 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:34 p.m.