Triple

T18444767
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Big Brother and the Holding Company E450625 entity
Predicate member P10 FINISHED
Object James Gurley
James Gurley was an American rock guitarist best known for his influential, psychedelic guitar work with the 1960s San Francisco band Big Brother and the Holding Company, fronted by Janis Joplin.
E1324874 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: James Gurley | Statement: [Big Brother and the Holding Company, member, James Gurley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Gurley
Context triple: [Big Brother and the Holding Company, member, James Gurley]
  • A. Bob Feerick
    Bob Feerick was an early professional basketball star and player-coach in the Basketball Association of America (a precursor to the NBA), known for his scoring and leadership in the late 1940s.
  • B. Eric Rosse
    Eric Rosse is an American record producer and songwriter best known for his work with artists like Tori Amos and Sara Bareilles.
  • C. Stewart Myers
    Stewart Myers is a prominent American economist and finance scholar best known for his foundational work in corporate finance theory, including the pecking order theory of capital structure.
  • D. Robert Scudder
    Robert Scudder is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Scudder.
  • E. Ben Demaree
    Ben Demaree is a cinematographer and filmmaker known for his work on low-budget genre films, including fantasy and science fiction titles.
  • 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: James Gurley
Triple: [Big Brother and the Holding Company, member, James Gurley]
Generated description
James Gurley was an American rock guitarist best known for his influential, psychedelic guitar work with the 1960s San Francisco band Big Brother and the Holding Company, fronted by Janis Joplin.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Gurley
Target entity description: James Gurley was an American rock guitarist best known for his influential, psychedelic guitar work with the 1960s San Francisco band Big Brother and the Holding Company, fronted by Janis Joplin.
  • A. Bob Feerick
    Bob Feerick was an early professional basketball star and player-coach in the Basketball Association of America (a precursor to the NBA), known for his scoring and leadership in the late 1940s.
  • B. Eric Rosse
    Eric Rosse is an American record producer and songwriter best known for his work with artists like Tori Amos and Sara Bareilles.
  • C. Stewart Myers
    Stewart Myers is a prominent American economist and finance scholar best known for his foundational work in corporate finance theory, including the pecking order theory of capital structure.
  • D. Robert Scudder
    Robert Scudder is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Scudder.
  • E. Ben Demaree
    Ben Demaree is a cinematographer and filmmaker known for his work on low-budget genre films, including fantasy and science fiction titles.
  • 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_69d8d381d6388190a9e94e9c658174e4 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e51c142abc8190b4f6f938acdc413d completed April 19, 2026, 6:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a040fdf827881909457dd732508db0b completed May 13, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0410ccd9f8819089f657fe4ec82a8e completed May 13, 2026, 5:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0411e5d7408190b53c21230a99fa03 completed May 13, 2026, 5:53 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:30 a.m.