Triple

T7288004
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Funk Brothers E163922 entity
Predicate playedOnHit P75400 FINISHED
Object "Shotgun" by Jr. Walker & the All Stars
"Shotgun" by Jr. Walker & the All Stars is a 1965 Motown R&B hit known for its driving saxophone riff, danceable groove, and enduring popularity as a soul classic.
E653570 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: "Shotgun" by Jr. Walker & the All Stars | Statement: [The Funk Brothers, playedOnHit, "Shotgun" by Jr. Walker & the All Stars]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: "Shotgun" by Jr. Walker & the All Stars
Context triple: [The Funk Brothers, playedOnHit, "Shotgun" by Jr. Walker & the All Stars]
  • A. “Mustang Sally” by Wilson Pickett
    “Mustang Sally” by Wilson Pickett is a classic 1966 soul and R&B hit, renowned for its driving groove, powerful vocals, and enduring popularity as a staple of American popular music.
  • B. The Notorious B.I.G. track "Machine Gun Funk"
    "Machine Gun Funk" is a hard-hitting, jazz-inflected gangsta rap track from The Notorious B.I.G.’s debut album *Ready to Die*, known for its gritty storytelling and classic East Coast production.
  • C. Jerry Lee Lewis's "Great Balls of Fire"
    Jerry Lee Lewis's "Great Balls of Fire" is a landmark 1957 rock and roll song renowned for its frenetic piano, exuberant vocals, and enduring influence on popular music.
  • D. Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions
    Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions was a 1960s jug band from Palo Alto, California, best known as a precursor to the Grateful Dead and for featuring several of its future members.
  • E. “Patches” by Clarence Carter
    “Patches” by Clarence Carter is a 1970 soul song and storytelling ballad about a poor Southern boy’s struggle and perseverance, best known as one of the singer’s signature hits.
  • 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: "Shotgun" by Jr. Walker & the All Stars
Triple: [The Funk Brothers, playedOnHit, "Shotgun" by Jr. Walker & the All Stars]
Generated description
"Shotgun" by Jr. Walker & the All Stars is a 1965 Motown R&B hit known for its driving saxophone riff, danceable groove, and enduring popularity as a soul classic.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: "Shotgun" by Jr. Walker & the All Stars
Target entity description: "Shotgun" by Jr. Walker & the All Stars is a 1965 Motown R&B hit known for its driving saxophone riff, danceable groove, and enduring popularity as a soul classic.
  • A. “Mustang Sally” by Wilson Pickett
    “Mustang Sally” by Wilson Pickett is a classic 1966 soul and R&B hit, renowned for its driving groove, powerful vocals, and enduring popularity as a staple of American popular music.
  • B. The Notorious B.I.G. track "Machine Gun Funk"
    "Machine Gun Funk" is a hard-hitting, jazz-inflected gangsta rap track from The Notorious B.I.G.’s debut album *Ready to Die*, known for its gritty storytelling and classic East Coast production.
  • C. Jerry Lee Lewis's "Great Balls of Fire"
    Jerry Lee Lewis's "Great Balls of Fire" is a landmark 1957 rock and roll song renowned for its frenetic piano, exuberant vocals, and enduring influence on popular music.
  • D. Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions
    Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions was a 1960s jug band from Palo Alto, California, best known as a precursor to the Grateful Dead and for featuring several of its future members.
  • E. “Patches” by Clarence Carter
    “Patches” by Clarence Carter is a 1970 soul song and storytelling ballad about a poor Southern boy’s struggle and perseverance, best known as one of the singer’s signature hits.
  • 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_69c6886093b88190a254b1ce6db8bae7 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f041f4a88190b85cff1ee5f9a6d0 completed March 27, 2026, 9:01 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7db42c8d48190a548c4242b07fb40 completed March 28, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7dc794bec819094d848497bd11fc1 completed March 28, 2026, 1:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7dd8117f881908c982c33b3f0e71a completed March 28, 2026, 1:54 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:59 p.m.