Triple

T20782098
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tommy Funderburk E511509 entity
Predicate associatedAct P37 FINISHED
Object Toto (session and backing vocals)
Toto (session and backing vocals) refers to the American rock band Toto in the context of their extensive use of session musicians and backing vocalists in studio recordings and live performances.
E1450195 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: Toto (session and backing vocals) | Statement: [Tommy Funderburk, associatedAct, Toto (session and backing vocals)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Toto (session and backing vocals)
Context triple: [Tommy Funderburk, associatedAct, Toto (session and backing vocals)]
  • A. Dusty Rogers
    Dusty Rogers is the son of famed American singing cowboy Roy Rogers, known for preserving and performing his father's Western musical legacy.
  • B. Jon Tooker
    Jon Tooker is an academic researcher, likely in agriculture or ecology, known for contributing scholarly work such as the study titled "The Use of Ashes."
  • C. Tommy Henrich
    Tommy Henrich was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and clutch hitter best known for his years with the New York Yankees in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. Tommy Sands
    Tommy Sands is an American pop and rock-and-roll singer and actor who rose to fame in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
  • E. Tommy Stinson
    Tommy Stinson is an American rock musician and bassist best known as a founding member of the influential alternative rock band The Replacements and later as a longtime member of Guns N’ Roses.
  • 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: Toto (session and backing vocals)
Triple: [Tommy Funderburk, associatedAct, Toto (session and backing vocals)]
Generated description
Toto (session and backing vocals) refers to the American rock band Toto in the context of their extensive use of session musicians and backing vocalists in studio recordings and live performances.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Toto (session and backing vocals)
Target entity description: Toto (session and backing vocals) refers to the American rock band Toto in the context of their extensive use of session musicians and backing vocalists in studio recordings and live performances.
  • A. Dusty Rogers
    Dusty Rogers is the son of famed American singing cowboy Roy Rogers, known for preserving and performing his father's Western musical legacy.
  • B. Jon Tooker
    Jon Tooker is an academic researcher, likely in agriculture or ecology, known for contributing scholarly work such as the study titled "The Use of Ashes."
  • C. Tommy Henrich
    Tommy Henrich was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and clutch hitter best known for his years with the New York Yankees in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. Tommy Sands
    Tommy Sands is an American pop and rock-and-roll singer and actor who rose to fame in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
  • E. Tommy Stinson
    Tommy Stinson is an American rock musician and bassist best known as a founding member of the influential alternative rock band The Replacements and later as a longtime member of Guns N’ Roses.
  • 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_69e0b4cac7a48190a715cb3d545df2b4 completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c28870e481909e7cbcdd6d4bc247 completed April 21, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08ef9985a08190965fb2d139b3e1f7 completed May 16, 2026, 10:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08f36a492481908518eba744452df0 completed May 16, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08f43e36588190a556a19b9dbb738b completed May 16, 2026, 10:48 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:38 p.m.