Triple

T18662820
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billie the oiler E456244 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object Billie
Billie is a character known as "Billie the oiler," featured in Stephen Crane’s short story "The Open Boat" as the hardworking seaman who rows the lifeboat.
E1336377 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: Billie | Statement: [Billie the oiler, name, Billie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billie
Context triple: [Billie the oiler, name, Billie]
  • A. Billie
    Billie is the given name of Billie Joe Armstrong, the American musician best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the punk rock band Green Day.
  • B. Billie
    Billie is a character in Terence Blanchard’s opera "Fire Shut Up in My Bones," which dramatizes journalist Charles M. Blow’s memoir about his turbulent Southern childhood and journey toward healing.
  • C. Billie
    Billie is a tennis player known for competing against Venus Williams.
  • D. Billie
    "Billie" is a song by the American indie rock band Pavement from their 1999 album *Terror Twilight*.
  • E. Billie
    Billie is the nickname of Billie Frechette, a Native American woman best known as the companion of notorious American bank robber John Dillinger during the early 1930s.
  • 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: Billie
Triple: [Billie the oiler, name, Billie]
Generated description
Billie is a character known as "Billie the oiler," featured in Stephen Crane’s short story "The Open Boat" as the hardworking seaman who rows the lifeboat.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billie
Target entity description: Billie is a character known as "Billie the oiler," featured in Stephen Crane’s short story "The Open Boat" as the hardworking seaman who rows the lifeboat.
  • A. Billie
    Billie is a character in Terence Blanchard’s opera "Fire Shut Up in My Bones," which dramatizes journalist Charles M. Blow’s memoir about his turbulent Southern childhood and journey toward healing.
  • B. Billie
    Billie is the nickname of Billie Frechette, a Native American woman best known as the companion of notorious American bank robber John Dillinger during the early 1930s.
  • C. Billie
    Billie is the given name of Billie Joe Armstrong, the American musician best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the punk rock band Green Day.
  • D. Billie
    Billie is a tennis player known for competing against Venus Williams.
  • E. Billie
    Billie is the given name of American country music singer Billie Jo Spears, known for her 1975 hit "Blanket on the Ground."
  • 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_69d8d38f72b4819090a935175d9ca8af completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5508c0d088190bef46fb3a3001f10 completed April 19, 2026, 10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a051728ac508190a0c2640e8102ebb6 completed May 14, 2026, 12:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05196f9d788190a239274167986a00 completed May 14, 2026, 12:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a051abf2e2c81909c5baca205235ce8 completed May 14, 2026, 12:43 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:48 a.m.