Triple

T18097905
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject "Tell Mama" E433135 entity
Predicate composer P1361 FINISHED
Object Wilbur Terrell
Wilbur Terrell is a songwriter best known for composing the soul classic "Tell Mama," popularized by Etta James.
E1305896 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: Wilbur Terrell | Statement: ["Tell Mama", composer, Wilbur Terrell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wilbur Terrell
Context triple: ["Tell Mama", composer, Wilbur Terrell]
  • A. Marcellus E. Foster
    Marcellus E. Foster was an American journalist and newspaper editor best known as the founder of the Houston Chronicle.
  • B. Horace L. McBride
    Horace L. McBride was a United States Army major general who commanded the 80th Infantry Division in Europe during World War II.
  • C. Robert Heberton Terrell
    Robert Heberton Terrell was an African American lawyer, educator, and one of the first Black judges in Washington, D.C., known for his civil rights advocacy and public service.
  • D. William Henry Johnson
    William Henry Johnson was a pioneering African American modernist painter known for his vibrant, folk-influenced depictions of Black life and culture in the United States and Europe.
  • E. Sumner W. Jackson
    Sumner W. Jackson was an American physician and U.S. Army officer in Paris during World War II who became known for aiding the French Resistance and was ultimately killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
  • 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: Wilbur Terrell
Triple: ["Tell Mama", composer, Wilbur Terrell]
Generated description
Wilbur Terrell is a songwriter best known for composing the soul classic "Tell Mama," popularized by Etta James.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wilbur Terrell
Target entity description: Wilbur Terrell is a songwriter best known for composing the soul classic "Tell Mama," popularized by Etta James.
  • A. Marcellus E. Foster
    Marcellus E. Foster was an American journalist and newspaper editor best known as the founder of the Houston Chronicle.
  • B. Horace L. McBride
    Horace L. McBride was a United States Army major general who commanded the 80th Infantry Division in Europe during World War II.
  • C. Robert Heberton Terrell
    Robert Heberton Terrell was an African American lawyer, educator, and one of the first Black judges in Washington, D.C., known for his civil rights advocacy and public service.
  • D. William Henry Johnson
    William Henry Johnson was a pioneering African American modernist painter known for his vibrant, folk-influenced depictions of Black life and culture in the United States and Europe.
  • E. Sumner W. Jackson
    Sumner W. Jackson was an American physician and U.S. Army officer in Paris during World War II who became known for aiding the French Resistance and was ultimately killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
  • 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_6a035da20f94819090c84d998426fc69 completed May 12, 2026, 5:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a036eced4d48190b09d210a5e301b60 completed May 12, 2026, 6:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a036f5fe6a4819087423eeb221179e4 completed May 12, 2026, 6:20 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:27 a.m.