Triple

T10467293
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Piano Lesson (TV film) E246829 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Boy Willie
Boy Willie is a determined, impulsive young man in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" whose desire to sell his family's heirloom piano to buy land drives the play's central conflict over legacy and ownership.
E865352 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: Boy Willie | Statement: [The Piano Lesson (TV film), hasCharacter, Boy Willie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Boy Willie
Context triple: [The Piano Lesson (TV film), hasCharacter, Boy Willie]
  • A. My Boy Willie
    "My Boy Willie" is a traditional military march closely associated with the Royal Tank Regiment of the British Army.
  • B. Tar Baby
    "Tar Baby" is a 1981 novel by Toni Morrison that explores race, class, identity, and desire through the complex relationships between a Black fashion model and a mysterious drifter on a Caribbean island.
  • C. Master Harold...and the Boys
    "Master Harold...and the Boys" is a critically acclaimed play by Athol Fugard that explores apartheid-era racial tensions and the complex relationship between a white teenager and two Black servants in South Africa.
  • D. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
    Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is a 1984 play by August Wilson that explores African American identity, migration, and spiritual searching in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse in 1911.
  • E. Reservation Blues
    Reservation Blues is a novel by Sherman Alexie that blends magical realism and contemporary Native American life through the story of a Spokane Indian rock band.
  • 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: Boy Willie
Triple: [The Piano Lesson (TV film), hasCharacter, Boy Willie]
Generated description
Boy Willie is a determined, impulsive young man in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" whose desire to sell his family's heirloom piano to buy land drives the play's central conflict over legacy and ownership.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Boy Willie
Target entity description: Boy Willie is a determined, impulsive young man in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" whose desire to sell his family's heirloom piano to buy land drives the play's central conflict over legacy and ownership.
  • A. My Boy Willie
    "My Boy Willie" is a traditional military march closely associated with the Royal Tank Regiment of the British Army.
  • B. Tar Baby
    "Tar Baby" is a 1981 novel by Toni Morrison that explores race, class, identity, and desire through the complex relationships between a Black fashion model and a mysterious drifter on a Caribbean island.
  • C. Master Harold...and the Boys
    "Master Harold...and the Boys" is a critically acclaimed play by Athol Fugard that explores apartheid-era racial tensions and the complex relationship between a white teenager and two Black servants in South Africa.
  • D. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
    Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is a 1984 play by August Wilson that explores African American identity, migration, and spiritual searching in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse in 1911.
  • E. Reservation Blues
    Reservation Blues is a novel by Sherman Alexie that blends magical realism and contemporary Native American life through the story of a Spokane Indian rock band.
  • 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_69d381c16c248190a2fe5b471e584e9c completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d5092e3230819098ab444f73c9bd40 completed April 7, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d89ff1cd948190a1ef331fb810bf26 completed April 10, 2026, 7 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d8a2b0d8c88190a1a64bd2bbacabbe completed April 10, 2026, 7:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d8a6560ddc81909d540f78a9413b3e completed April 10, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:20 p.m.