Triple

T23011294
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Squirrel Nut Zippers E572910 entity
Predicate member P10 FINISHED
Object Katharine Whalen
Katharine Whalen is an American singer and musician best known as a co-founder and vocalist of the swing revival band Squirrel Nut Zippers.
E1566869 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: Katharine Whalen | Statement: [Squirrel Nut Zippers, member, Katharine Whalen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Katharine Whalen
Context triple: [Squirrel Nut Zippers, member, Katharine Whalen]
  • A. Kathryn Kennish
    Kathryn Kennish is a central character on the television series "Switched at Birth," portrayed as a wealthy, outspoken mother whose life is upended when she discovers her daughter was switched at birth.
  • B. Katherine McAuliffe
    Katherine McAuliffe is a developmental psychologist known for her research on the emergence of fairness, cooperation, and moral reasoning in children across cultures.
  • C. Kathryn Hays
    Kathryn Hays was an American actress best known for her long-running role as Kim Hughes on the soap opera "As the World Turns."
  • D. Kathryn Alexander
    Kathryn Alexander is known as the daughter of American politician and former U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander.
  • E. Sarah Caldwell
    Sarah Caldwell was an influential American opera conductor and stage director, best known as the founder and longtime artistic director of the Opera Company of Boston.
  • 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: Katharine Whalen
Triple: [Squirrel Nut Zippers, member, Katharine Whalen]
Generated description
Katharine Whalen is an American singer and musician best known as a co-founder and vocalist of the swing revival band Squirrel Nut Zippers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Katharine Whalen
Target entity description: Katharine Whalen is an American singer and musician best known as a co-founder and vocalist of the swing revival band Squirrel Nut Zippers.
  • A. Kathryn Kennish
    Kathryn Kennish is a central character on the television series "Switched at Birth," portrayed as a wealthy, outspoken mother whose life is upended when she discovers her daughter was switched at birth.
  • B. Katherine McAuliffe
    Katherine McAuliffe is a developmental psychologist known for her research on the emergence of fairness, cooperation, and moral reasoning in children across cultures.
  • C. Kathryn Hays
    Kathryn Hays was an American actress best known for her long-running role as Kim Hughes on the soap opera "As the World Turns."
  • D. Kathryn Alexander
    Kathryn Alexander is known as the daughter of American politician and former U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander.
  • E. Sarah Caldwell
    Sarah Caldwell was an influential American opera conductor and stage director, best known as the founder and longtime artistic director of the Opera Company of Boston.
  • 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_69e245b764cc8190a51be76f1d9611e1 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1835b0cb881908d3d2dd40cffcbc2 completed April 29, 2026, 4:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0bf2a65a10819087b5954853a95c65 completed May 19, 2026, 5:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0bfbc5b19c8190aed3f1199410b996 completed May 19, 2026, 5:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0bfccedf2c8190833df43ea2c294ca completed May 19, 2026, 6:01 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:51 p.m.