Triple

T9826116
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roger McGuinn E238656 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object James Joseph McGuinn III
James Joseph McGuinn III is the birth name of Roger McGuinn, the American musician best known as the frontman and lead guitarist of the influential rock band The Byrds.
 E823754 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: James Joseph McGuinn III | Statement: [Roger McGuinn, birthName, James Joseph McGuinn III]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Joseph McGuinn III
Context triple: [Roger McGuinn, birthName, James Joseph McGuinn III]
  • A. James McDermott
    James McDermott is a character in Margaret Atwood’s novel *Alias Grace*, depicted as a fellow servant whose murder becomes central to the story’s infamous crime.
  • B. David Boggs
    David Boggs was an American electrical engineer and computer scientist best known as the co-inventor of Ethernet networking technology at Xerox PARC.
  • C. Ted Cheesman
    Ted Cheesman was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the 1933 monster film "King Kong."
  • D. Ed Kelly
    Ed Kelly is a technology executive best known as a co-founder of the innovative microprocessor company Transmeta.
  • E. Fred McMullin
    Fred McMullin was a utility infielder for the Chicago White Sox best known for his role as one of the eight players implicated in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
  • 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: James Joseph McGuinn III
Triple: [Roger McGuinn, birthName, James Joseph McGuinn III]
Generated description
James Joseph McGuinn III is the birth name of Roger McGuinn, the American musician best known as the frontman and lead guitarist of the influential rock band The Byrds.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Joseph McGuinn III
Target entity description: James Joseph McGuinn III is the birth name of Roger McGuinn, the American musician best known as the frontman and lead guitarist of the influential rock band The Byrds.
  • A. James McDermott
    James McDermott is a character in Margaret Atwood’s novel *Alias Grace*, depicted as a fellow servant whose murder becomes central to the story’s infamous crime.
  • B. David Boggs
    David Boggs was an American electrical engineer and computer scientist best known as the co-inventor of Ethernet networking technology at Xerox PARC.
  • C. Ted Cheesman
    Ted Cheesman was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the 1933 monster film "King Kong."
  • D. Ed Kelly
    Ed Kelly is a technology executive best known as a co-founder of the innovative microprocessor company Transmeta.
  • E. Fred McMullin
    Fred McMullin was a utility infielder for the Chicago White Sox best known for his role as one of the eight players implicated in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
  • 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_69ca84e0dd1881909800765d1e21f735 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb32370e8819087c85fb8328587be completed April 2, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1cc84b0a481909000a0f04e3676d0 completed April 5, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1ccf59c68819082b4aa37e06d2aaf completed April 5, 2026, 2:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1d0d945d48190b56b7fd2ce568a13 completed April 5, 2026, 3:02 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:32 p.m.