Triple

T9044278
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Slim Whitman E216715 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr.
Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr., better known as Slim Whitman, was an American country and western singer famed for his smooth yodeling style and high tenor voice.
E775414 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: Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr. | Statement: [Slim Whitman, birthName, Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr.
Context triple: [Slim Whitman, birthName, Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr.]
  • A. James Whittaker
    James Whittaker was an early and influential leader of the Shaker religious movement in America, known for helping to organize and spread the sect’s communal, celibate, and egalitarian way of life.
  • B. William Stetson Merrill
    William Stetson Merrill was an American librarian and classification theorist known for his influential work on library book classification and subject headings in the early 20th century.
  • C. John J. Dunbar
    John J. Dunbar is the Union Army lieutenant portrayed by Kevin Costner in the film "Dances with Wolves," who gradually assimilates into a Lakota Sioux tribe on the American frontier.
  • D. Peter Bent Brigham
    Peter Bent Brigham was a 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of a major Boston teaching hospital that later became part of Brigham and Women's Hospital.
  • E. Charles Evans Whittaker
    Charles Evans Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court who served from 1957 to 1962 after a rapid rise through the federal judiciary.
  • 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: Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr.
Triple: [Slim Whitman, birthName, Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr.]
Generated description
Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr., better known as Slim Whitman, was an American country and western singer famed for his smooth yodeling style and high tenor voice.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr.
Target entity description: Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr., better known as Slim Whitman, was an American country and western singer famed for his smooth yodeling style and high tenor voice.
  • A. James Whittaker
    James Whittaker was an early and influential leader of the Shaker religious movement in America, known for helping to organize and spread the sect’s communal, celibate, and egalitarian way of life.
  • B. William Stetson Merrill
    William Stetson Merrill was an American librarian and classification theorist known for his influential work on library book classification and subject headings in the early 20th century.
  • C. John J. Dunbar
    John J. Dunbar is the Union Army lieutenant portrayed by Kevin Costner in the film "Dances with Wolves," who gradually assimilates into a Lakota Sioux tribe on the American frontier.
  • D. Peter Bent Brigham
    Peter Bent Brigham was a 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of a major Boston teaching hospital that later became part of Brigham and Women's Hospital.
  • E. Charles Evans Whittaker
    Charles Evans Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court who served from 1957 to 1962 after a rapid rise through the federal judiciary.
  • 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_69ca83d22d488190adbce5e020e9cd1d completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc6b137cec8190bd1b812c10d9542a completed April 1, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfeba4c5f48190b7fc85f2137dd93e completed April 3, 2026, 4:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfecf7fce08190a9b80044a2ae9745 completed April 3, 2026, 4:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cff0ea8c388190bd95233db9c69038 completed April 3, 2026, 4:55 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:09 p.m.