Triple

T16677020
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fred "Sonic" Smith E405237 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Frederick Dewey Smith
Frederick Dewey Smith, better known as Fred "Sonic" Smith, was an influential American guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work with the proto-punk band MC5 and later as a member of Sonic's Rendezvous Band.
 E1582920 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: Frederick Dewey Smith | Statement: [Fred "Sonic" Smith, fullName, Frederick Dewey Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Frederick Dewey Smith
Context triple: [Fred "Sonic" Smith, fullName, Frederick Dewey Smith]
  • A. Ernest K. Smith
    Ernest K. Smith is a songwriter best known for his work on the track "Broadway Girls."
  • B. Frederick Wallace Smith
    Frederick Wallace Smith is an American businessman best known as the founder, chairman, and former CEO of FedEx Corporation.
  • C. Robert Weston Smith
    Robert Weston Smith was an influential American disc jockey and radio personality best known for his gravelly voice and larger-than-life on-air persona "Wolfman Jack."
  • D. Gerard C. Smith
    Gerard C. Smith was an American diplomat and arms control negotiator best known for serving as the chief U.S. negotiator of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) with the Soviet Union.
  • E. Charles Ferguson Smith
    Charles Ferguson Smith was a distinguished United States Army officer and West Point instructor who served in the Mexican–American War and early in the American Civil War.
  • 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: Frederick Dewey Smith
Triple: [Fred "Sonic" Smith, fullName, Frederick Dewey Smith]
Generated description
Frederick Dewey Smith, better known as Fred "Sonic" Smith, was an influential American guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work with the proto-punk band MC5 and later as a member of Sonic's Rendezvous Band.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Frederick Dewey Smith
Target entity description: Frederick Dewey Smith, better known as Fred "Sonic" Smith, was an influential American guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work with the proto-punk band MC5 and later as a member of Sonic's Rendezvous Band.
  • A. Ernest K. Smith
    Ernest K. Smith is a songwriter best known for his work on the track "Broadway Girls."
  • B. Frederick Wallace Smith
    Frederick Wallace Smith is an American businessman best known as the founder, chairman, and former CEO of FedEx Corporation.
  • C. Robert Weston Smith
    Robert Weston Smith was an influential American disc jockey and radio personality best known for his gravelly voice and larger-than-life on-air persona "Wolfman Jack."
  • D. Gerard C. Smith
    Gerard C. Smith was an American diplomat and arms control negotiator best known for serving as the chief U.S. negotiator of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) with the Soviet Union.
  • E. Charles Ferguson Smith
    Charles Ferguson Smith was a distinguished United States Army officer and West Point instructor who served in the Mexican–American War and early in the American Civil War.
  • 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_69d8838c28748190b3f5967c743940ab completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e37d6c805c81909fbe4fcb20eedbe1 completed April 18, 2026, 12:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c5da47b648190a4ba7792f2b36999 completed May 19, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c60283668819096076b1bf406eaa0 completed May 19, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c60b52fe88190854803902df750c5 completed May 19, 2026, 1:08 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:19 a.m.