Triple

T14103558
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brown Sugar E339443 entity
Predicate producer P490 FINISHED
Object Tony Toni Toné
Tony! Toni! Toné! is an American R&B group from Oakland, California, known for their influential late-1980s and 1990s soul, new jack swing, and funk hits.
 E1080732 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: Tony Toni Toné | Statement: [Brown Sugar, producer, Tony Toni Toné]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tony Toni Toné
Context triple: [Brown Sugar, producer, Tony Toni Toné]
  • A. Tony Anselmo
    Tony Anselmo is an American animator and voice actor best known for providing the official voice of Disney’s Donald Duck.
  • B. Paul Giovanni
    Paul Giovanni was an American playwright, actor, and composer best known for creating the distinctive folk-influenced score and songs for the 1973 British horror film "The Wicker Man."
  • C. Johnny Rico
    Johnny Rico is the fictional protagonist and Mobile Infantry soldier in Robert A. Heinlein’s "Starship Troopers," best known from the 1997 film adaptation.
  • D. Tony Tanti
    Tony Tanti is a former Canadian professional ice hockey forward best known for his high-scoring NHL career in the 1980s, particularly with the Vancouver Canucks.
  • E. Bun E. Carlos
    Bun E. Carlos is an American rock drummer best known as the founding and longtime drummer of the band Cheap Trick, recognized for his precise, hard-hitting style and distinctive stage presence.
  • 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: Tony Toni Toné
Triple: [Brown Sugar, producer, Tony Toni Toné]
Generated description
Tony! Toni! Toné! is an American R&B group from Oakland, California, known for their influential late-1980s and 1990s soul, new jack swing, and funk hits.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tony Toni Toné
Target entity description: Tony! Toni! Toné! is an American R&B group from Oakland, California, known for their influential late-1980s and 1990s soul, new jack swing, and funk hits.
  • A. Tony Anselmo
    Tony Anselmo is an American animator and voice actor best known for providing the official voice of Disney’s Donald Duck.
  • B. Paul Giovanni
    Paul Giovanni was an American playwright, actor, and composer best known for creating the distinctive folk-influenced score and songs for the 1973 British horror film "The Wicker Man."
  • C. Johnny Rico
    Johnny Rico is the fictional protagonist and Mobile Infantry soldier in Robert A. Heinlein’s "Starship Troopers," best known from the 1997 film adaptation.
  • D. Tony Tanti
    Tony Tanti is a former Canadian professional ice hockey forward best known for his high-scoring NHL career in the 1980s, particularly with the Vancouver Canucks.
  • E. Bun E. Carlos
    Bun E. Carlos is an American rock drummer best known as the founding and longtime drummer of the band Cheap Trick, recognized for his precise, hard-hitting style and distinctive stage presence.
  • 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_69d81c69b5c8819094aa1abf18302908 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de5fbd02888190bf07fd6d8769b61c completed April 14, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fcd0b2ade08190a56e9ecf659f83b9 completed May 7, 2026, 5:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fcd854824c8190b71001a8c67ad229 completed May 7, 2026, 6:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fcd91c3aac8190a569c6818cf1dabd completed May 7, 2026, 6:25 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:22 p.m.