Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Mars Volta E500587 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object Thomas Pridgen
Thomas Pridgen is an American drummer best known for his virtuosic, high-energy work with progressive rock and experimental bands, including his tenure with The Mars Volta.
E1430095 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: Thomas Pridgen | Statement: [The Mars Volta, hasMember, Thomas Pridgen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Pridgen
Context triple: [The Mars Volta, hasMember, Thomas Pridgen]
  • A. Leslie Edward Pridgen
    Leslie Edward Pridgen, better known by his stage name Freeway, is an American rapper from Philadelphia associated with Roc-A-Fella Records and the early 2000s East Coast hip hop scene.
  • B. Saunders Terrell
    Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry, was an influential American blues and folk harmonica player renowned for his energetic, whooping style and collaborations with guitarist Brownie McGhee.
  • C. Pervis Staples
    Pervis Staples was an American gospel and R&B singer best known as an original member of the influential family group The Staple Singers.
  • D. Clifton Young
    Clifton Young was an American film actor active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his character roles in Westerns and crime dramas.
  • E. Clifton McNeely
    Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
  • 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: Thomas Pridgen
Triple: [The Mars Volta, hasMember, Thomas Pridgen]
Generated description
Thomas Pridgen is an American drummer best known for his virtuosic, high-energy work with progressive rock and experimental bands, including his tenure with The Mars Volta.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Pridgen
Target entity description: Thomas Pridgen is an American drummer best known for his virtuosic, high-energy work with progressive rock and experimental bands, including his tenure with The Mars Volta.
  • A. Leslie Edward Pridgen
    Leslie Edward Pridgen, better known by his stage name Freeway, is an American rapper from Philadelphia associated with Roc-A-Fella Records and the early 2000s East Coast hip hop scene.
  • B. Saunders Terrell
    Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry, was an influential American blues and folk harmonica player renowned for his energetic, whooping style and collaborations with guitarist Brownie McGhee.
  • C. Pervis Staples
    Pervis Staples was an American gospel and R&B singer best known as an original member of the influential family group The Staple Singers.
  • D. Clifton Young
    Clifton Young was an American film actor active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his character roles in Westerns and crime dramas.
  • E. Clifton McNeely
    Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
  • 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_69e0b4a935588190b9446a99b37ced44 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e67a3ecb348190ae777f6276037828 completed April 20, 2026, 7:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a087b23f8448190ab79b3a6ac3e23c1 completed May 16, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08801702488190ba3122edb09cdaab completed May 16, 2026, 2:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08811c9af081908d898134bf80452e completed May 16, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:29 a.m.