Triple

T10252869
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ragtime E240386 entity
Predicate featuresFictionalCharacter P50141 FINISHED
Object Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Coalhouse Walker Jr. is a proud and principled Black pianist in E.L. Doctorow’s novel "Ragtime," whose quest for justice after a racist attack drives much of the book’s central conflict.
E854051 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: Coalhouse Walker Jr. | Statement: [Ragtime, featuresFictionalCharacter, Coalhouse Walker Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Context triple: [Ragtime, featuresFictionalCharacter, Coalhouse Walker Jr.]
  • A. Ruchell Magee
    Ruchell Magee is an American prison activist and one of the longest-incarcerated political prisoners in the United States, known for his involvement in the 1970 Marin County courthouse incident and his writings on systemic racism and injustice.
  • B. Hambone Willie Newbern
    Hambone Willie Newbern was an early 20th-century American blues guitarist and singer known for his influential country blues recordings.
  • C. Brownie McGhee
    Brownie McGhee was an influential American blues singer and guitarist best known for his long partnership with harmonica player Sonny Terry and his contributions to the Piedmont blues style.
  • D. Henry Blanke
    Henry Blanke was a prominent German-born American film producer best known for his long association with Warner Bros. and his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • E. Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson
    Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson was an American blues and jazz alto saxophonist and singer known for his gritty tone, swinging style, and influential blend of jump blues and bebop.
  • 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: Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Triple: [Ragtime, featuresFictionalCharacter, Coalhouse Walker Jr.]
Generated description
Coalhouse Walker Jr. is a proud and principled Black pianist in E.L. Doctorow’s novel "Ragtime," whose quest for justice after a racist attack drives much of the book’s central conflict.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Target entity description: Coalhouse Walker Jr. is a proud and principled Black pianist in E.L. Doctorow’s novel "Ragtime," whose quest for justice after a racist attack drives much of the book’s central conflict.
  • A. Ruchell Magee
    Ruchell Magee is an American prison activist and one of the longest-incarcerated political prisoners in the United States, known for his involvement in the 1970 Marin County courthouse incident and his writings on systemic racism and injustice.
  • B. Hambone Willie Newbern
    Hambone Willie Newbern was an early 20th-century American blues guitarist and singer known for his influential country blues recordings.
  • C. Brownie McGhee
    Brownie McGhee was an influential American blues singer and guitarist best known for his long partnership with harmonica player Sonny Terry and his contributions to the Piedmont blues style.
  • D. Henry Blanke
    Henry Blanke was a prominent German-born American film producer best known for his long association with Warner Bros. and his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • E. Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson
    Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson was an American blues and jazz alto saxophonist and singer known for his gritty tone, swinging style, and influential blend of jump blues and bebop.
  • 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_69d381a7e198819090280d5ab885d59e completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4d23f106c81909c1ce20a2ffa86ea completed April 7, 2026, 9:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d6f7c6aca08190b15e3790cad12532 completed April 9, 2026, 12:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d6fcab0bfc8190b47bc165ef3eb15d completed April 9, 2026, 1:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d70fc3b15081908d1b67a7094c6210 completed April 9, 2026, 2:32 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:29 a.m.