Triple

T10033925
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colson Whitehead E204916 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object John Henry Days
John Henry Days is a novel by Colson Whitehead that blends folklore, journalism, and satire to explore American mythmaking through the legend of the steel-driving man John Henry.
E836742 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: John Henry Days | Statement: [Colson Whitehead, notableWork, John Henry Days]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Henry Days
Context triple: [Colson Whitehead, notableWork, John Henry Days]
  • A. The Great White Hope
    "The Great White Hope" is a 1967 play by Howard Sackler, later adapted into a 1970 film, dramatizing the life of Black heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson and the racism he faced in early 20th-century America.
  • B. The Boys in Blue
    The Boys in Blue is the popular nickname for Major League Soccer club Philadelphia Union, reflecting the team’s traditional blue kit and identity.
  • C. The Joe
    The Joe is a famous indoor arena in Detroit, Michigan, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings.
  • D. The Champ
    The Champ is a 1931 American drama film directed by King Vidor, renowned for its poignant story of a washed-up boxer and his devoted young son.
  • E. The Lion of the Blues
    The Lion of the Blues is the nickname of Bobby "Blue" Bland, a seminal American blues and soul singer known for his smooth, expressive vocal style and major influence on modern R&B.
  • 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: John Henry Days
Triple: [Colson Whitehead, notableWork, John Henry Days]
Generated description
John Henry Days is a novel by Colson Whitehead that blends folklore, journalism, and satire to explore American mythmaking through the legend of the steel-driving man John Henry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Henry Days
Target entity description: John Henry Days is a novel by Colson Whitehead that blends folklore, journalism, and satire to explore American mythmaking through the legend of the steel-driving man John Henry.
  • A. The Great White Hope
    "The Great White Hope" is a 1967 play by Howard Sackler, later adapted into a 1970 film, dramatizing the life of Black heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson and the racism he faced in early 20th-century America.
  • B. The Boys in Blue
    The Boys in Blue is the popular nickname for Major League Soccer club Philadelphia Union, reflecting the team’s traditional blue kit and identity.
  • C. The Joe
    The Joe is a famous indoor arena in Detroit, Michigan, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings.
  • D. The Champ
    The Champ is a 1931 American drama film directed by King Vidor, renowned for its poignant story of a washed-up boxer and his devoted young son.
  • E. The Lion of the Blues
    The Lion of the Blues is the nickname of Bobby "Blue" Bland, a seminal American blues and soul singer known for his smooth, expressive vocal style and major influence on modern R&B.
  • 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_69ca834d77188190ad645e33e8ca3200 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdce490ff08190963d841b05d150a7 completed April 2, 2026, 2:02 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d28250be608190b7e2b809672cdd78 completed April 5, 2026, 3:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2834f6d488190812f91a5b4971c1e completed April 5, 2026, 3:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d28432d900819091ff0d324a6bb28a completed April 5, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:54 p.m.