Triple

T17698297
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herbie Flowers E441228 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Brian Keith Flowers
Brian Keith Flowers, better known as Herbie Flowers, is an English bassist and composer renowned for his prolific session work and iconic bass lines on numerous classic pop and rock recordings.
E1282642 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: Brian Keith Flowers | Statement: [Herbie Flowers, birthName, Brian Keith Flowers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian Keith Flowers
Context triple: [Herbie Flowers, birthName, Brian Keith Flowers]
  • A. Jim Hensley
    Jim Hensley was an American businessman and beer distributor best known as the founder of Hensley & Co., one of the largest Anheuser-Busch distributors in the United States.
  • B. Jerry Hyland
    Jerry Hyland is a central character in the 1930 stage comedy "Once in a Lifetime," portrayed as an ambitious but somewhat hapless Hollywood hopeful navigating the chaos of early talking pictures.
  • C. Robert Calvin Bland
    Robert Calvin Bland was an influential American blues and soul singer known for his smooth vocal style and a string of hits in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • D. Douglas Fowley
    Douglas Fowley was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1930s through the 1970s, including a memorable role as the harried film director in "Singin' in the Rain."
  • E. Rod Tidwell
    Rod Tidwell is a charismatic, outspoken professional football player in the film "Jerry Maguire," best known for his demand to "show me the money."
  • 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: Brian Keith Flowers
Triple: [Herbie Flowers, birthName, Brian Keith Flowers]
Generated description
Brian Keith Flowers, better known as Herbie Flowers, is an English bassist and composer renowned for his prolific session work and iconic bass lines on numerous classic pop and rock recordings.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian Keith Flowers
Target entity description: Brian Keith Flowers, better known as Herbie Flowers, is an English bassist and composer renowned for his prolific session work and iconic bass lines on numerous classic pop and rock recordings.
  • A. Jim Hensley
    Jim Hensley was an American businessman and beer distributor best known as the founder of Hensley & Co., one of the largest Anheuser-Busch distributors in the United States.
  • B. Jerry Hyland
    Jerry Hyland is a central character in the 1930 stage comedy "Once in a Lifetime," portrayed as an ambitious but somewhat hapless Hollywood hopeful navigating the chaos of early talking pictures.
  • C. Robert Calvin Bland
    Robert Calvin Bland was an influential American blues and soul singer known for his smooth vocal style and a string of hits in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • D. Douglas Fowley
    Douglas Fowley was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1930s through the 1970s, including a memorable role as the harried film director in "Singin' in the Rain."
  • E. Rod Tidwell
    Rod Tidwell is a charismatic, outspoken professional football player in the film "Jerry Maguire," best known for his demand to "show me the money."
  • 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_69d8b9ea20b48190ace88bb46b01e6a9 completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e47158be9c8190bbf4e5162ff74ad2 completed April 19, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0223365be08190992b1e80553aebcc completed May 11, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0224af2c7c819095b771014f36d0e4 completed May 11, 2026, 6:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a02259ef96881909660d18a4a149f8f completed May 11, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:04 a.m.