Triple

T9097434
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Louis Prima E218061 entity
Predicate associatedAct P37 FINISHED
Object Sam Butera
Sam Butera was an American tenor saxophonist, bandleader, and key member of Louis Prima’s backing band The Witnesses, known for his energetic jump blues and showmanship.
E804653 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: Sam Butera | Statement: [Louis Prima, associatedAct, Sam Butera]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Butera
Context triple: [Louis Prima, associatedAct, Sam Butera]
  • A. Tony D'Amato
    Tony D'Amato is the hard-driving, old-school head coach of the fictional Miami Sharks football team in the film "Any Given Sunday," portrayed by Al Pacino.
  • B. Frank Tagliano
    Frank Tagliano is the fictional New York mobster-turned-relocated witness protection figure portrayed by Steven Van Zandt in the Norwegian-American TV series "Lilyhammer."
  • C. Ray Ferraro
    Ray Ferraro is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player and prominent NHL broadcaster known for his long playing career and work as a television analyst.
  • D. Sam Lombardo
    Sam Lombardo is the charismatic high school guidance counselor at the center of the twisting sexual assault and conspiracy plot in the 1998 neo-noir thriller film "Wild Things."
  • E. Vince LaRocca
    Vince LaRocca is a mob-connected antagonist from the film "Sister Act," serving as the violent ex-boyfriend whose actions force Deloris Van Cartier into witness protection.
  • 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: Sam Butera
Triple: [Louis Prima, associatedAct, Sam Butera]
Generated description
Sam Butera was an American tenor saxophonist, bandleader, and key member of Louis Prima’s backing band The Witnesses, known for his energetic jump blues and showmanship.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Butera
Target entity description: Sam Butera was an American tenor saxophonist, bandleader, and key member of Louis Prima’s backing band The Witnesses, known for his energetic jump blues and showmanship.
  • A. Tony D'Amato
    Tony D'Amato is the hard-driving, old-school head coach of the fictional Miami Sharks football team in the film "Any Given Sunday," portrayed by Al Pacino.
  • B. Frank Tagliano
    Frank Tagliano is the fictional New York mobster-turned-relocated witness protection figure portrayed by Steven Van Zandt in the Norwegian-American TV series "Lilyhammer."
  • C. Ray Ferraro
    Ray Ferraro is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player and prominent NHL broadcaster known for his long playing career and work as a television analyst.
  • D. Sam Lombardo
    Sam Lombardo is the charismatic high school guidance counselor at the center of the twisting sexual assault and conspiracy plot in the 1998 neo-noir thriller film "Wild Things."
  • E. Vince LaRocca
    Vince LaRocca is a mob-connected antagonist from the film "Sister Act," serving as the violent ex-boyfriend whose actions force Deloris Van Cartier into witness protection.
  • 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_69ca83d9844081908e561e367fda6d45 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc96b7d0d48190a3b15f35bef087e3 completed April 1, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d14bc281688190b65b8224b70f08d7 completed April 4, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d14ca535588190aa2ff77f0658226b completed April 4, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d14d29d32c8190a8615b3450492abc completed April 4, 2026, 5:40 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:15 p.m.