Triple

T21427374
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Swingle Singers E528591 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Ward Swingle
Ward Swingle was an American-born French musician, arranger, and choral director best known for pioneering the distinctive jazz-influenced a cappella style of the Swingle Singers.
E1483364 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: Ward Swingle | Statement: [Swingle Singers, founder, Ward Swingle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ward Swingle
Context triple: [Swingle Singers, founder, Ward Swingle]
  • A. Gordon Gano
    Gordon Gano is an American musician best known as the lead singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter for the alternative rock band Violent Femmes.
  • B. Barry Morrow
    Barry Morrow is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing the Academy Award–winning film "Rain Man," inspired in part by his friendship with Bill Sackter.
  • C. Alan Balsam
    Alan Balsam is a film editor best known for his work on the comedy sequel "Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol."
  • D. Patrick Wimberly
    Patrick Wimberly is an American record producer and musician known for his work with the indie pop band Chairlift and for producing albums for prominent artists across pop and R&B.
  • E. Joseph Lovering
    Joseph Lovering was a 19th-century American physicist and educator known for his long tenure as a Harvard professor and his contributions to the development of science education in the United States.
  • 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: Ward Swingle
Triple: [Swingle Singers, founder, Ward Swingle]
Generated description
Ward Swingle was an American-born French musician, arranger, and choral director best known for pioneering the distinctive jazz-influenced a cappella style of the Swingle Singers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ward Swingle
Target entity description: Ward Swingle was an American-born French musician, arranger, and choral director best known for pioneering the distinctive jazz-influenced a cappella style of the Swingle Singers.
  • A. Gordon Gano
    Gordon Gano is an American musician best known as the lead singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter for the alternative rock band Violent Femmes.
  • B. Barry Morrow
    Barry Morrow is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing the Academy Award–winning film "Rain Man," inspired in part by his friendship with Bill Sackter.
  • C. Alan Balsam
    Alan Balsam is a film editor best known for his work on the comedy sequel "Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol."
  • D. Patrick Wimberly
    Patrick Wimberly is an American record producer and musician known for his work with the indie pop band Chairlift and for producing albums for prominent artists across pop and R&B.
  • E. Joseph Lovering
    Joseph Lovering was a 19th-century American physicist and educator known for his long tenure as a Harvard professor and his contributions to the development of science education in the United States.
  • 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_69e0c455f3688190810bc96365791b0f completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e8b3e63a54819089efea2f26b58107 completed April 22, 2026, 11:41 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09c2a81ef08190a232757cf8785858 completed May 17, 2026, 1:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09c36e90dc8190b5628ddef17c9796 completed May 17, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09c3e4d2c881908b3438eebbd409f0 completed May 17, 2026, 1:34 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 5:49 p.m.