Triple

T18047196
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sign o’ the Times Tour E431809 entity
Predicate hasBandMember P22076 FINISHED
Object Wally Safford
Wally Safford is an American dancer, bodyguard, and performer best known for his work with Prince during the 1980s.
E1308953 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: Wally Safford | Statement: [Sign o’ the Times Tour, hasBandMember, Wally Safford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wally Safford
Context triple: [Sign o’ the Times Tour, hasBandMember, Wally Safford]
  • A. Wally Figg
    Wally Figg is a down-on-his-luck, ethically flexible lawyer who becomes a central figure in John Grisham’s legal thriller "The Litigators."
  • B. Wally Brown
    Wally Brown was an American character actor and comedian known for his work in mid-20th-century films and as part of the comedy duo Brown and Carney.
  • C. Bobby Walden
    Bobby Walden was an American professional football punter best known for his successful NFL career, particularly with the Pittsburgh Steelers during their 1970s championship era.
  • D. Irwin Wade
    Irwin Wade is a fictional World War II combat medic and member of the squad in the film "Saving Private Ryan."
  • E. Clifton McNeely
    Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
  • 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: Wally Safford
Triple: [Sign o’ the Times Tour, hasBandMember, Wally Safford]
Generated description
Wally Safford is an American dancer, bodyguard, and performer best known for his work with Prince during the 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wally Safford
Target entity description: Wally Safford is an American dancer, bodyguard, and performer best known for his work with Prince during the 1980s.
  • A. Wally Figg
    Wally Figg is a down-on-his-luck, ethically flexible lawyer who becomes a central figure in John Grisham’s legal thriller "The Litigators."
  • B. Wally Brown
    Wally Brown was an American character actor and comedian known for his work in mid-20th-century films and as part of the comedy duo Brown and Carney.
  • C. Bobby Walden
    Bobby Walden was an American professional football punter best known for his successful NFL career, particularly with the Pittsburgh Steelers during their 1970s championship era.
  • D. Irwin Wade
    Irwin Wade is a fictional World War II combat medic and member of the squad in the film "Saving Private Ryan."
  • E. Clifton McNeely
    Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
  • 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_69d8b906482481908183315b9ecf9994 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4bff2d3c48190875ffe9c042d3ec0 completed April 19, 2026, 11:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0385356fb881908a642b6c301f490f completed May 12, 2026, 7:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0388b70cd88190ab3dfd23a00dc931 completed May 12, 2026, 8:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03890ca09881908b58523e06742a08 completed May 12, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:25 a.m.