Triple

T21561509
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mother Machree E532046 entity
Predicate composer P1361 FINISHED
Object Ernest R. Ball
Ernest R. Ball was an American songwriter and composer best known for popular early 20th-century sentimental ballads such as "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling."
E1490941 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: Ernest R. Ball | Statement: [Mother Machree, composer, Ernest R. Ball]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernest R. Ball
Context triple: [Mother Machree, composer, Ernest R. Ball]
  • A. J. B. Ball
    J. B. Ball is a fictional wealthy banker and central comic figure in the 1937 screwball comedy film "Easy Living."
  • B. David Sills
    David Sills was an American jurist and former mayor of Irvine, California, who later served as the presiding justice of the California Court of Appeal.
  • C. Fred Ball
    Fred Ball is a film producer best known for his work on the cult classic crime-romance movie "True Romance."
  • D. Fred Ball
    Fred Ball is a Norwegian songwriter and record producer known for his work on major pop and R&B hits, including Rihanna’s “Love on the Brain.”
  • E. Lyle Bettger
    Lyle Bettger was an American character actor best known for his frequent portrayals of suave villains in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and television.
  • 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: Ernest R. Ball
Triple: [Mother Machree, composer, Ernest R. Ball]
Generated description
Ernest R. Ball was an American songwriter and composer best known for popular early 20th-century sentimental ballads such as "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernest R. Ball
Target entity description: Ernest R. Ball was an American songwriter and composer best known for popular early 20th-century sentimental ballads such as "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling."
  • A. J. B. Ball
    J. B. Ball is a fictional wealthy banker and central comic figure in the 1937 screwball comedy film "Easy Living."
  • B. David Sills
    David Sills was an American jurist and former mayor of Irvine, California, who later served as the presiding justice of the California Court of Appeal.
  • C. Fred Ball
    Fred Ball is a film producer best known for his work on the cult classic crime-romance movie "True Romance."
  • D. Fred Ball
    Fred Ball is a Norwegian songwriter and record producer known for his work on major pop and R&B hits, including Rihanna’s “Love on the Brain.”
  • E. Lyle Bettger
    Lyle Bettger was an American character actor best known for his frequent portrayals of suave villains in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and television.
  • 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_69e0c460db088190828c64206a450273 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69eed2e3e2348190b5c3b66cdc871e6e completed April 27, 2026, 3:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09eeeb5c6081908267b5825acddad5 completed May 17, 2026, 4:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09f3334a088190b16c3715c786f4e2 completed May 17, 2026, 4:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09f40c04a48190b60c80f44759b295 completed May 17, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:29 p.m.