Triple

T9390434
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thriller (album) E226013 entity
Predicate songwriter P1141 FINISHED
Object Steve Porcaro
Steve Porcaro is an American keyboardist, composer, and founding member of the rock band Toto, best known for his session work and songwriting contributions to major pop albums of the 1980s.
E795814 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: Steve Porcaro | Statement: [Thriller (album), songwriter, Steve Porcaro]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Steve Porcaro
Context triple: [Thriller (album), songwriter, Steve Porcaro]
  • A. Jeff Porcaro
    Jeff Porcaro was an American drummer, songwriter, and founding member of the rock band Toto, renowned as one of the most recorded and influential session drummers in popular music.
  • B. Terry Bozzio
    Terry Bozzio is an American drummer renowned for his virtuosic, polyrhythmic playing and work with Frank Zappa, Missing Persons, and various rock and fusion projects.
  • C. Steve Gadd
    Steve Gadd is a highly influential American drummer renowned for his innovative session work, distinctive groove, and contributions to jazz, rock, and pop music.
  • D. Jack Ashford
    Jack Ashford is an American percussionist best known for his tambourine and vibraphone work on countless Motown hits as part of the label’s legendary studio band.
  • E. Mark Aronoff
    Mark Aronoff is an American linguist renowned for his influential work in morphology and for his long-standing role as a professor at Stony Brook University.
  • 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: Steve Porcaro
Triple: [Thriller (album), songwriter, Steve Porcaro]
Generated description
Steve Porcaro is an American keyboardist, composer, and founding member of the rock band Toto, best known for his session work and songwriting contributions to major pop albums of the 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Steve Porcaro
Target entity description: Steve Porcaro is an American keyboardist, composer, and founding member of the rock band Toto, best known for his session work and songwriting contributions to major pop albums of the 1980s.
  • A. Jeff Porcaro
    Jeff Porcaro was an American drummer, songwriter, and founding member of the rock band Toto, renowned as one of the most recorded and influential session drummers in popular music.
  • B. Terry Bozzio
    Terry Bozzio is an American drummer renowned for his virtuosic, polyrhythmic playing and work with Frank Zappa, Missing Persons, and various rock and fusion projects.
  • C. Steve Gadd
    Steve Gadd is a highly influential American drummer renowned for his innovative session work, distinctive groove, and contributions to jazz, rock, and pop music.
  • D. Jack Ashford
    Jack Ashford is an American percussionist best known for his tambourine and vibraphone work on countless Motown hits as part of the label’s legendary studio band.
  • E. Mark Aronoff
    Mark Aronoff is an American linguist renowned for his influential work in morphology and for his long-standing role as a professor at Stony Brook University.
  • 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_69ca842f7e3481908bf5bcf52e032dbd completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd510d7a9c8190a74ccdb5478dedc9 completed April 1, 2026, 5:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d100f86bac8190a26ab156f24455bb completed April 4, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d10156670c8190b61ef6231c2e78d2 completed April 4, 2026, 12:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d10235f46c8190ba8eeb9382649f62 completed April 4, 2026, 12:21 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:45 p.m.