Triple

T18140885
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pops Staples E434256 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Pervis Staples
Pervis Staples was an American gospel and R&B singer best known as an original member of the influential family group The Staple Singers.
E1312340 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: Pervis Staples | Statement: [Pops Staples, child, Pervis Staples]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pervis Staples
Context triple: [Pops Staples, child, Pervis Staples]
  • A. Pervis Ellison
    Pervis Ellison is a former American basketball center best known for leading the University of Louisville to the 1986 NCAA championship and later playing in the NBA as the first overall pick in the 1989 draft.
  • B. Saunders Terrell
    Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry, was an influential American blues and folk harmonica player renowned for his energetic, whooping style and collaborations with guitarist Brownie McGhee.
  • C. Clifton Young
    Clifton Young was an American film actor active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his character roles in Westerns and crime dramas.
  • D. Leroy Edwards
    Leroy Edwards was an American professional basketball star of the 1930s and 1940s, widely regarded as one of the era’s dominant centers and an early pioneer of the modern post game.
  • E. Earl Bostic
    Earl Bostic was an influential American jazz and rhythm-and-blues alto saxophonist and bandleader known for his virtuosic technique and pioneering role in early R&B saxophone styles.
  • 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: Pervis Staples
Triple: [Pops Staples, child, Pervis Staples]
Generated description
Pervis Staples was an American gospel and R&B singer best known as an original member of the influential family group The Staple Singers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pervis Staples
Target entity description: Pervis Staples was an American gospel and R&B singer best known as an original member of the influential family group The Staple Singers.
  • A. Pervis Ellison
    Pervis Ellison is a former American basketball center best known for leading the University of Louisville to the 1986 NCAA championship and later playing in the NBA as the first overall pick in the 1989 draft.
  • B. Saunders Terrell
    Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry, was an influential American blues and folk harmonica player renowned for his energetic, whooping style and collaborations with guitarist Brownie McGhee.
  • C. Clifton Young
    Clifton Young was an American film actor active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his character roles in Westerns and crime dramas.
  • D. Leroy Edwards
    Leroy Edwards was an American professional basketball star of the 1930s and 1940s, widely regarded as one of the era’s dominant centers and an early pioneer of the modern post game.
  • E. Earl Bostic
    Earl Bostic was an influential American jazz and rhythm-and-blues alto saxophonist and bandleader known for his virtuosic technique and pioneering role in early R&B saxophone styles.
  • 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_69d8b90aac308190801e2c57d8c5bfe5 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4de0b67308190ae3be2dbff99910a completed April 19, 2026, 1:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a039effedd88190b7398132f15c5265 completed May 12, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a039fdd9c4c819083b450657d0ece43 completed May 12, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03a0d6de8c8190b1f94c7de0856143 completed May 12, 2026, 9:51 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:29 a.m.