Triple

T11499556
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jean Toomer E272627 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Nathan Eugene Toomer
Nathan Eugene Toomer was the original birth name of Jean Toomer, the American writer best known for his modernist work "Cane" and his role in the Harlem Renaissance.
 E929312 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: Nathan Eugene Toomer | Statement: [Jean Toomer, birthName, Nathan Eugene Toomer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nathan Eugene Toomer
Context triple: [Jean Toomer, birthName, Nathan Eugene Toomer]
  • A. Al Alcorn
    Al Alcorn is an American engineer and video game pioneer best known as the designer of the original Pong arcade game.
  • B. Joe Moore
    Joe Moore is a person known primarily as the sibling of Owen Moore.
  • C. Joe Guinn
    Joe Guinn was a civil rights activist best known for helping establish the Congress of Racial Equality, a key organization in the U.S. civil rights movement.
  • D. Sam Huff
    Sam Huff was a legendary Hall of Fame middle linebacker renowned for his hard-hitting play with the New York Giants in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • E. Isaiah Stillman
    Isaiah Stillman was a militia officer best known for leading U.S. forces in the 1832 Battle of Stillman’s Run during the Black Hawk War.
  • 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: Nathan Eugene Toomer
Triple: [Jean Toomer, birthName, Nathan Eugene Toomer]
Generated description
Nathan Eugene Toomer was the original birth name of Jean Toomer, the American writer best known for his modernist work "Cane" and his role in the Harlem Renaissance.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nathan Eugene Toomer
Target entity description: Nathan Eugene Toomer was the original birth name of Jean Toomer, the American writer best known for his modernist work "Cane" and his role in the Harlem Renaissance.
  • A. Al Alcorn
    Al Alcorn is an American engineer and video game pioneer best known as the designer of the original Pong arcade game.
  • B. Joe Moore
    Joe Moore is a person known primarily as the sibling of Owen Moore.
  • C. Joe Guinn
    Joe Guinn was a civil rights activist best known for helping establish the Congress of Racial Equality, a key organization in the U.S. civil rights movement.
  • D. Sam Huff
    Sam Huff was a legendary Hall of Fame middle linebacker renowned for his hard-hitting play with the New York Giants in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • E. Isaiah Stillman
    Isaiah Stillman was a militia officer best known for leading U.S. forces in the 1832 Battle of Stillman’s Run during the Black Hawk War.
  • 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_69d6aae1b09881909ce2ded3fa0c14fa completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d85de3e9c881909d6c55334f7a832d completed April 10, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e604aa9e3c8190ad86e4d05a67c8ac completed April 20, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e610a82c308190927158dbd566b0d4 completed April 20, 2026, 11:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e61853a3b48190b0d132761e9be69c completed April 20, 2026, 12:13 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:36 p.m.