Triple
T23191395
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Tears on My Pillow |
E579744
|
entity |
| Predicate | writer |
P1360
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Sylvester Bradford
Sylvester Bradford was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the classic doo-wop ballad "Tears on My Pillow," popularized by Little Anthony and the Imperials.
|
E1579406
|
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: Sylvester Bradford | Statement: [Tears on My Pillow, writer, Sylvester Bradford]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sylvester Bradford Context triple: [Tears on My Pillow, writer, Sylvester Bradford]
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A.
Sylvester Smith
Sylvester Smith is a person known primarily as the sibling of Sophia Smith.
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B.
William Freeborn
William Freeborn was a 19th-century American pioneer and politician in Minnesota, after whom Freeborn County is named.
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C.
Gridley Bryant
Gridley Bryant was a 19th-century American civil engineer best known for pioneering early railroad engineering and construction techniques in the United States.
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D.
Bayard Bradford
Bayard Bradford is a fictional character known primarily as the husband of Iris Carrington in the soap opera "Another World."
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E.
Henry Baldwin
Henry Baldwin was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 19th century, known for his often idiosyncratic and independent judicial opinions.
- 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: Sylvester Bradford Triple: [Tears on My Pillow, writer, Sylvester Bradford]
Generated description
Sylvester Bradford was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the classic doo-wop ballad "Tears on My Pillow," popularized by Little Anthony and the Imperials.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sylvester Bradford Target entity description: Sylvester Bradford was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the classic doo-wop ballad "Tears on My Pillow," popularized by Little Anthony and the Imperials.
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A.
Sylvester Smith
Sylvester Smith is a person known primarily as the sibling of Sophia Smith.
-
B.
William Freeborn
William Freeborn was a 19th-century American pioneer and politician in Minnesota, after whom Freeborn County is named.
-
C.
Gridley Bryant
Gridley Bryant was a 19th-century American civil engineer best known for pioneering early railroad engineering and construction techniques in the United States.
-
D.
Bayard Bradford
Bayard Bradford is a fictional character known primarily as the husband of Iris Carrington in the soap opera "Another World."
-
E.
Henry Baldwin
Henry Baldwin was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 19th century, known for his often idiosyncratic and independent judicial opinions.
- 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_69e24600eed08190bd7e5295653a1503 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f18fd777c08190bf79e38844fedf27 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 4:57 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a0c4c74851c8190a2dd8a8787ea1cb4 |
completed | May 19, 2026, 11:41 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a0c4e669b6481909f198d1c51b68bf3 |
completed | May 19, 2026, 11:49 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a0c4f011a188190b801f2ae0f134356 |
completed | May 19, 2026, 11:52 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:05 p.m.