Triple

T18186242
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Folkways Records E435421 entity
Predicate publishedArtist P130142 FINISHED
Object Harry Smith
Harry Smith was an influential American archivist, experimental filmmaker, and musicologist best known for compiling the landmark Anthology of American Folk Music that helped spark the mid-20th-century folk revival.
 E1311461 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: Harry Smith | Statement: [Folkways Records, publishedArtist, Harry Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Harry Smith
Context triple: [Folkways Records, publishedArtist, Harry Smith]
  • A. Harry Smith
    Harry Smith was a 19th-century British Army officer and colonial governor known for his prominent role in the Xhosa Wars in South Africa.
  • B. Joe Boyd
    Joe Boyd is an American record producer and music executive known for his influential work with folk, rock, and world music artists in the 1960s and beyond.
  • C. Joe Boyd
    Joe Boyd is the middle-aged baseball fan in the musical "Damn Yankees" who sells his soul to the Devil to help his beloved Washington Senators defeat the New York Yankees.
  • D. Harry Marker
    Harry Marker was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions such as "The Bells of St. Mary's."
  • E. Warren Cowan
    Warren Cowan was a prominent American publicist and co-founder of the influential Hollywood public relations firm Rogers & Cowan.
  • 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: Harry Smith
Triple: [Folkways Records, publishedArtist, Harry Smith]
Generated description
Harry Smith was an influential American archivist, experimental filmmaker, and musicologist best known for compiling the landmark Anthology of American Folk Music that helped spark the mid-20th-century folk revival.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Harry Smith
Target entity description: Harry Smith was an influential American archivist, experimental filmmaker, and musicologist best known for compiling the landmark Anthology of American Folk Music that helped spark the mid-20th-century folk revival.
  • A. Harry Smith
    Harry Smith was a 19th-century British Army officer and colonial governor known for his prominent role in the Xhosa Wars in South Africa.
  • B. Joe Boyd
    Joe Boyd is an American record producer and music executive known for his influential work with folk, rock, and world music artists in the 1960s and beyond.
  • C. Joe Boyd
    Joe Boyd is the middle-aged baseball fan in the musical "Damn Yankees" who sells his soul to the Devil to help his beloved Washington Senators defeat the New York Yankees.
  • D. Harry Marker
    Harry Marker was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions such as "The Bells of St. Mary's."
  • E. Warren Cowan
    Warren Cowan was a prominent American publicist and co-founder of the influential Hollywood public relations firm Rogers & Cowan.
  • 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_69d8b90c7ec081909b4694ccecb449c6 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4dffe9e8081909c6bff40bbd279d2 completed April 19, 2026, 2 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0398032e3081909455845718c73b78 completed May 12, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03990a2bec8190b5d6a472bc9bb3fb completed May 12, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0399c98a88819090e579324d9423e5 completed May 12, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:31 a.m.