Triple

T18126386
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jeff McIlwain E433885 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object A Certain Distance
A Certain Distance is an acclaimed electronic music album by producer Jeff McIlwain, known for its atmospheric blend of ambient textures and intricate techno rhythms.
E1308653 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: A Certain Distance | Statement: [Jeff McIlwain, notableWork, A Certain Distance]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Certain Distance
Context triple: [Jeff McIlwain, notableWork, A Certain Distance]
  • A. The Distance
    "The Distance" is a 1982 rock album by American singer-songwriter Bob Seger, featuring a polished heartland rock sound and several hit singles.
  • B. From a Distance
    "From a Distance" is a popular ballad best known through Bette Midler’s Grammy-winning 1990 recording, which became an international hit and an emblematic peace-themed song.
  • C. The Distance from Here
    The Distance from Here is a darkly comic contemporary play by Neil LaBute that explores the bleak lives and moral disintegration of disaffected American youth in a decaying suburban landscape.
  • D. The Distances
    The Distances is a poetry collection by American poet Charles Olson, associated with the Black Mountain school and known for its expansive, projective verse style.
  • E. So Near and Yet So Far
    "So Near and Yet So Far" is a popular song from the 1941 musical film "You'll Never Get Rich," featuring music by Cole Porter and performed by Fred Astaire.
  • 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: A Certain Distance
Triple: [Jeff McIlwain, notableWork, A Certain Distance]
Generated description
A Certain Distance is an acclaimed electronic music album by producer Jeff McIlwain, known for its atmospheric blend of ambient textures and intricate techno rhythms.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Certain Distance
Target entity description: A Certain Distance is an acclaimed electronic music album by producer Jeff McIlwain, known for its atmospheric blend of ambient textures and intricate techno rhythms.
  • A. The Distance
    "The Distance" is a 1982 rock album by American singer-songwriter Bob Seger, featuring a polished heartland rock sound and several hit singles.
  • B. From a Distance
    "From a Distance" is a popular ballad best known through Bette Midler’s Grammy-winning 1990 recording, which became an international hit and an emblematic peace-themed song.
  • C. The Distance from Here
    The Distance from Here is a darkly comic contemporary play by Neil LaBute that explores the bleak lives and moral disintegration of disaffected American youth in a decaying suburban landscape.
  • D. The Distances
    The Distances is a poetry collection by American poet Charles Olson, associated with the Black Mountain school and known for its expansive, projective verse style.
  • E. So Near and Yet So Far
    "So Near and Yet So Far" is a popular song from the 1941 musical film "You'll Never Get Rich," featuring music by Cole Porter and performed by Fred Astaire.
  • 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_69d8b909e8cc81908df4cc2b8ea6d11f completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4ddee1efc8190b04324b98de5c9d0 completed April 19, 2026, 1:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03854215a4819091a6da976cfc7ec7 completed May 12, 2026, 7:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0386d2bab48190b20513b48eb0e222 completed May 12, 2026, 8 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0387425c1c81908f1b178199eafab6 completed May 12, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:29 a.m.