Triple

T18423600
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fairport Convention E442078 entity
Predicate hasFormerMember P1168 FINISHED
Object Iain Matthews
Iain Matthews is an English singer-songwriter best known for his work in folk rock, including his early role in Fairport Convention and later success with Matthews Southern Comfort.
E1323994 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: Iain Matthews | Statement: [Fairport Convention, hasFormerMember, Iain Matthews]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Iain Matthews
Context triple: [Fairport Convention, hasFormerMember, Iain Matthews]
  • A. Anthony Cooke
    Anthony Cooke was a 16th-century English humanist scholar and tutor to Edward VI, noted for his influential role in the Protestant intellectual circles of the Tudor court.
  • B. John Parish
    John Parish is an English musician, songwriter, and producer best known for his long-running creative collaboration with PJ Harvey and his work on numerous alternative rock and indie projects.
  • C. Andrew McAlpine
    Andrew McAlpine is a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films such as "Sid and Nancy."
  • D. Roy Marples
    Roy Marples is a software engineer best known for his work on the OpenRC init system and various networking tools in the Linux and BSD ecosystems.
  • E. Phil Anderson
    Phil Anderson is an Australian former professional road cyclist renowned as one of the leading stage racers of the 1980s and the first non-European to wear the Tour de France yellow jersey.
  • 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: Iain Matthews
Triple: [Fairport Convention, hasFormerMember, Iain Matthews]
Generated description
Iain Matthews is an English singer-songwriter best known for his work in folk rock, including his early role in Fairport Convention and later success with Matthews Southern Comfort.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Iain Matthews
Target entity description: Iain Matthews is an English singer-songwriter best known for his work in folk rock, including his early role in Fairport Convention and later success with Matthews Southern Comfort.
  • A. Anthony Cooke
    Anthony Cooke was a 16th-century English humanist scholar and tutor to Edward VI, noted for his influential role in the Protestant intellectual circles of the Tudor court.
  • B. John Parish
    John Parish is an English musician, songwriter, and producer best known for his long-running creative collaboration with PJ Harvey and his work on numerous alternative rock and indie projects.
  • C. Andrew McAlpine
    Andrew McAlpine is a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films such as "Sid and Nancy."
  • D. Roy Marples
    Roy Marples is a software engineer best known for his work on the OpenRC init system and various networking tools in the Linux and BSD ecosystems.
  • E. Phil Anderson
    Phil Anderson is an Australian former professional road cyclist renowned as one of the leading stage racers of the 1980s and the first non-European to wear the Tour de France yellow jersey.
  • 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_69d8b9eb8a508190a942fd75ebd8b1dc completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e51b102dd88190af474902fe58ead5 completed April 19, 2026, 6:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03f0a9d0a08190a78610499b1372c9 completed May 13, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03f21c622c81909f34f0d3da0c4491 completed May 13, 2026, 3:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03f356e48c81908d74414b736303a4 completed May 13, 2026, 3:43 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:47 a.m.