Triple

T19627371
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Live Today E471172 entity
Predicate featuresArtist P1952 FINISHED
Object Kenneth Whalum III
Kenneth Whalum III is an American jazz and R&B saxophonist, composer, and bandleader known for his soulful tone and collaborations across contemporary jazz, hip-hop, and soul music.
E1386652 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: Kenneth Whalum III | Statement: [Live Today, featuresArtist, Kenneth Whalum III]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth Whalum III
Context triple: [Live Today, featuresArtist, Kenneth Whalum III]
  • A. Kenneth Washington
    Kenneth Washington is an American actor best known for joining the cast of the World War II sitcom "Hogan's Heroes" in its final season.
  • B. Kenneth Parcell
    Kenneth Parcell is a relentlessly cheerful, naive NBC page on the sitcom "30 Rock," known for his unwavering optimism, Southern charm, and bizarrely long-lived backstory.
  • C. Jeffrey Himes
    Jeffrey Himes is a musician best known for having been a past member of the indie rock band Okkervil River.
  • D. Jeffrey Skiles
    Jeffrey Skiles is an American airline pilot best known as the first officer who helped safely land US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River alongside Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger.
  • E. Tyrone S. Woods
    Tyrone S. Woods was a former U.S. Navy SEAL and CIA security contractor who was killed while defending American personnel during the 2012 Benghazi attack in Libya.
  • 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: Kenneth Whalum III
Triple: [Live Today, featuresArtist, Kenneth Whalum III]
Generated description
Kenneth Whalum III is an American jazz and R&B saxophonist, composer, and bandleader known for his soulful tone and collaborations across contemporary jazz, hip-hop, and soul music.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth Whalum III
Target entity description: Kenneth Whalum III is an American jazz and R&B saxophonist, composer, and bandleader known for his soulful tone and collaborations across contemporary jazz, hip-hop, and soul music.
  • A. Kenneth Washington
    Kenneth Washington is an American actor best known for joining the cast of the World War II sitcom "Hogan's Heroes" in its final season.
  • B. Kenneth Parcell
    Kenneth Parcell is a relentlessly cheerful, naive NBC page on the sitcom "30 Rock," known for his unwavering optimism, Southern charm, and bizarrely long-lived backstory.
  • C. Jeffrey Himes
    Jeffrey Himes is a musician best known for having been a past member of the indie rock band Okkervil River.
  • D. Jeffrey Skiles
    Jeffrey Skiles is an American airline pilot best known as the first officer who helped safely land US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River alongside Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger.
  • E. Tyrone S. Woods
    Tyrone S. Woods was a former U.S. Navy SEAL and CIA security contractor who was killed while defending American personnel during the 2012 Benghazi attack in Libya.
  • 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_69d8e511f28481909f4bc3ea9191e54a completed April 10, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e640eadcc48190ab5e36ddcde0c328 completed April 20, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0771bf2698819097690821e66b0d6a completed May 15, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07736d8990819081b3ba34f1d3600e completed May 15, 2026, 7:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0773f9f8148190822ed74d83fdac97 completed May 15, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:44 p.m.