Triple

T10091556
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject IWW E215354 entity
Predicate hasNotableFaculty P141 FINISHED
Object James Alan McPherson
James Alan McPherson was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American short story writer and essayist known for his insightful explorations of race, class, and American life.
E840980 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: James Alan McPherson | Statement: [IWW, hasNotableFaculty, James Alan McPherson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Alan McPherson
Context triple: [IWW, hasNotableFaculty, James Alan McPherson]
  • A. Charles E. Fuller
    Charles E. Fuller was an influential American evangelical radio preacher and Christian leader whose ministry and vision led to the establishment of Fuller Theological Seminary.
  • B. Horace Julian Bond
    Horace Julian Bond was a prominent American civil rights leader, politician, and educator who co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and served for decades in the Georgia legislature.
  • C. Martin Delany
    Martin Delany was a 19th-century African American abolitionist, writer, physician, and early Black nationalist leader who co-founded the antislavery newspaper The North Star with Frederick Douglass.
  • D. Robert Ellison
    Robert Ellison is a software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Syntrillium Software, the company behind the popular audio editing program Cool Edit.
  • E. James Weldon Johnson
    James Weldon Johnson was an influential African American writer, civil rights activist, and cultural leader whose poetry, novels, and leadership in the NAACP helped shape the Harlem Renaissance.
  • 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: James Alan McPherson
Triple: [IWW, hasNotableFaculty, James Alan McPherson]
Generated description
James Alan McPherson was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American short story writer and essayist known for his insightful explorations of race, class, and American life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Alan McPherson
Target entity description: James Alan McPherson was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American short story writer and essayist known for his insightful explorations of race, class, and American life.
  • A. Charles E. Fuller
    Charles E. Fuller was an influential American evangelical radio preacher and Christian leader whose ministry and vision led to the establishment of Fuller Theological Seminary.
  • B. Horace Julian Bond
    Horace Julian Bond was a prominent American civil rights leader, politician, and educator who co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and served for decades in the Georgia legislature.
  • C. Martin Delany
    Martin Delany was a 19th-century African American abolitionist, writer, physician, and early Black nationalist leader who co-founded the antislavery newspaper The North Star with Frederick Douglass.
  • D. Robert Ellison
    Robert Ellison is a software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Syntrillium Software, the company behind the popular audio editing program Cool Edit.
  • E. James Weldon Johnson
    James Weldon Johnson was an influential African American writer, civil rights activist, and cultural leader whose poetry, novels, and leadership in the NAACP helped shape the Harlem Renaissance.
  • 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_69ca83a1eed081908b2e9580f2ebeea7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdd05aa02081908fba02e7085c6d7c completed April 2, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2b6a587e0819093f38d5e69db43ec completed April 5, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2b7901ea08190a48e984356bd3d71 completed April 5, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2b8813f9c8190a85462efb7a0a517 completed April 5, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:01 p.m.