Triple

T17743671
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Don Cornelius E442926 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object WCIU-TV
WCIU-TV is a Chicago-based television station best known as the original home of Don Cornelius’s music and dance program that evolved into the nationally syndicated show "Soul Train."
E1285891 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: WCIU-TV | Statement: [Don Cornelius, employer, WCIU-TV]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: WCIU-TV
Context triple: [Don Cornelius, employer, WCIU-TV]
  • A. KYW-TV
    KYW-TV is a CBS-owned-and-operated television station serving the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania market.
  • B. WLS-TV
    WLS-TV is a major ABC-owned and operated television station serving the Chicago, Illinois media market.
  • C. WMAQ-TV
    WMAQ-TV is the NBC-owned and operated television station serving the Chicago, Illinois market.
  • D. WBBM-TV
    WBBM-TV is the CBS-owned television station in Chicago that has served as a major local news outlet and early-career platform for prominent journalists such as Lester Holt.
  • E. WKRC-TV
    WKRC-TV is a Cincinnati-based television station known for its local news coverage and for having notable broadcasters such as Nick Clooney among its on-air talent.
  • 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: WCIU-TV
Triple: [Don Cornelius, employer, WCIU-TV]
Generated description
WCIU-TV is a Chicago-based television station best known as the original home of Don Cornelius’s music and dance program that evolved into the nationally syndicated show "Soul Train."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: WCIU-TV
Target entity description: WCIU-TV is a Chicago-based television station best known as the original home of Don Cornelius’s music and dance program that evolved into the nationally syndicated show "Soul Train."
  • A. KYW-TV
    KYW-TV is a CBS-owned-and-operated television station serving the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania market.
  • B. WLS-TV
    WLS-TV is a major ABC-owned and operated television station serving the Chicago, Illinois media market.
  • C. WMAQ-TV
    WMAQ-TV is the NBC-owned and operated television station serving the Chicago, Illinois market.
  • D. WBBM-TV
    WBBM-TV is the CBS-owned television station in Chicago that has served as a major local news outlet and early-career platform for prominent journalists such as Lester Holt.
  • E. WKRC-TV
    WKRC-TV is a Cincinnati-based television station known for its local news coverage and for having notable broadcasters such as Nick Clooney among its on-air talent.
  • 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_69d8b9ed3a2081909b2ec0d4dd2f4c37 completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e47acf44f8819089a18193e37d112c completed April 19, 2026, 6:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0242ff08408190a1bdd1434a55b7af completed May 11, 2026, 8:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a024810afec8190bfe11b35bb1853ac completed May 11, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0248e4d7548190b23a70068868b2f9 completed May 11, 2026, 9:23 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:09 a.m.