Triple

T11532225
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tressie McMillan Cottom E273450 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object McMillan Cottom
McMillan Cottom is the surname of Tressie McMillan Cottom, an American sociologist, writer, and public intellectual known for her work on inequality, higher education, and race.
E932121 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: McMillan Cottom | Statement: [Tressie McMillan Cottom, familyName, McMillan Cottom]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McMillan Cottom
Context triple: [Tressie McMillan Cottom, familyName, McMillan Cottom]
  • A. Reg E. Cathey
    Reg E. Cathey was an American actor known for his deep, resonant voice and memorable roles in series such as "The Wire," "House of Cards," and "Oz."
  • B. Merriel V. Shelton
    Merriel V. Shelton was a U.S. Marine whose World War II service inspired the character Merriel “Snafu” Shelton in the HBO miniseries The Pacific.
  • C. Courtney H. Hodges
    Courtney H. Hodges was a senior U.S. Army general in World War II who commanded First Army in the European Theater, playing a key role in the liberation of Western Europe.
  • D. Prentiss M. Brown
    Prentiss M. Brown was an American Democratic politician and U.S. Senator from Michigan who played a key role in federal economic regulation during World War II.
  • E. Ed Steele
    Ed Steele was a professional baseball player in the Negro Leagues, best known as an outfielder for the Birmingham Black Barons.
  • 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: McMillan Cottom
Triple: [Tressie McMillan Cottom, familyName, McMillan Cottom]
Generated description
McMillan Cottom is the surname of Tressie McMillan Cottom, an American sociologist, writer, and public intellectual known for her work on inequality, higher education, and race.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McMillan Cottom
Target entity description: McMillan Cottom is the surname of Tressie McMillan Cottom, an American sociologist, writer, and public intellectual known for her work on inequality, higher education, and race.
  • A. Reg E. Cathey
    Reg E. Cathey was an American actor known for his deep, resonant voice and memorable roles in series such as "The Wire," "House of Cards," and "Oz."
  • B. Merriel V. Shelton
    Merriel V. Shelton was a U.S. Marine whose World War II service inspired the character Merriel “Snafu” Shelton in the HBO miniseries The Pacific.
  • C. Courtney H. Hodges
    Courtney H. Hodges was a senior U.S. Army general in World War II who commanded First Army in the European Theater, playing a key role in the liberation of Western Europe.
  • D. Prentiss M. Brown
    Prentiss M. Brown was an American Democratic politician and U.S. Senator from Michigan who played a key role in federal economic regulation during World War II.
  • E. Ed Steele
    Ed Steele was a professional baseball player in the Negro Leagues, best known as an outfielder for the Birmingham Black Barons.
  • 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_69d6aae3fbec8190a14632a5df2538b6 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8839a2c7081909c285d1f6beb971c completed April 10, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e68577f5ec8190a46687119d288a36 completed April 20, 2026, 7:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e68fd6b6088190b24f552b5afc3f55 completed April 20, 2026, 8:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e6b7d683448190b7557bffd92b3ad6 completed April 20, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:37 p.m.