Triple

T18097867
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject "I'll Take You There" E433134 entity
Predicate backingVocalist P9646 FINISHED
Object Cleotha Staples
Cleotha Staples was an American gospel and R&B singer best known as a founding member and key vocal presence of the influential family group The Staple Singers.
E1309116 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: Cleotha Staples | Statement: ["I'll Take You There", backingVocalist, Cleotha Staples]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cleotha Staples
Context triple: ["I'll Take You There", backingVocalist, Cleotha Staples]
  • A. Lela Rochon Staples
    Lela Rochon Staples is an American actress best known for her role in the film "Waiting to Exhale" and her work in numerous television and movie projects during the 1990s.
  • B. Darlene Fields
    Darlene Fields is known as the spouse of legendary American soul musician and actor Isaac Hayes.
  • C. Mavis Staples
    Mavis Staples is an acclaimed American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, civil rights activist, and longtime member of the legendary family group The Staple Singers.
  • D. Thelma Evans
    Thelma Evans is a central character on the 1970s sitcom "Good Times," known as the smart, independent, and strong-willed daughter of the Evans family.
  • E. Aretha Cobbs
    Aretha Cobbs is a character in the musical and film "Black Nativity," which reimagines the Nativity story through an African-American gospel lens.
  • 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: Cleotha Staples
Triple: ["I'll Take You There", backingVocalist, Cleotha Staples]
Generated description
Cleotha Staples was an American gospel and R&B singer best known as a founding member and key vocal presence of the influential family group The Staple Singers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cleotha Staples
Target entity description: Cleotha Staples was an American gospel and R&B singer best known as a founding member and key vocal presence of the influential family group The Staple Singers.
  • A. Lela Rochon Staples
    Lela Rochon Staples is an American actress best known for her role in the film "Waiting to Exhale" and her work in numerous television and movie projects during the 1990s.
  • B. Darlene Fields
    Darlene Fields is known as the spouse of legendary American soul musician and actor Isaac Hayes.
  • C. Mavis Staples
    Mavis Staples is an acclaimed American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, civil rights activist, and longtime member of the legendary family group The Staple Singers.
  • D. Thelma Evans
    Thelma Evans is a central character on the 1970s sitcom "Good Times," known as the smart, independent, and strong-willed daughter of the Evans family.
  • E. Aretha Cobbs
    Aretha Cobbs is a character in the musical and film "Black Nativity," which reimagines the Nativity story through an African-American gospel lens.
  • 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_69d8b907d05c819083cc3bd6021089e6 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4ddb3ef548190a322f98917b54a59 completed April 19, 2026, 1:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a038fac2598819089b24a3f4b075382 completed May 12, 2026, 8:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0390b679bc819081eb3388feb4af5a completed May 12, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0391071abc8190bf94bdf8865c21f5 completed May 12, 2026, 8:43 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:27 a.m.