Triple

T1226238
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Secret Life of Bees E26332 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object August Boatwright
August Boatwright is a wise, nurturing African American beekeeper and matriarch in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel "The Secret Life of Bees," who provides guidance and refuge to the protagonist.
 E148170 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: August Boatwright | Statement: [The Secret Life of Bees, mainCharacter, August Boatwright]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: August Boatwright
Context triple: [The Secret Life of Bees, mainCharacter, August Boatwright]
  • A. Gulian McEvers
    Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • B. Bones McKinney
    Bones McKinney was an American professional basketball player and later coach, best known for his colorful personality and contributions to early pro basketball and college coaching.
  • C. Lemon Breeland
    Lemon Breeland is a central character on the TV series "Hart of Dixie," known as a prim and proper Southern belle whose personal growth and complicated relationships drive much of the show's drama and humor.
  • D. Semeka Randall
    Semeka Randall is a former American college basketball star and WNBA guard best known for her standout career under coach Pat Summitt at the University of Tennessee.
  • E. Elisha Whittlesey
    Elisha Whittlesey was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Ohio who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and later held key federal financial oversight roles.
  • 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: August Boatwright
Triple: [The Secret Life of Bees, mainCharacter, August Boatwright]
Generated description
August Boatwright is a wise, nurturing African American beekeeper and matriarch in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel "The Secret Life of Bees," who provides guidance and refuge to the protagonist.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: August Boatwright
Target entity description: August Boatwright is a wise, nurturing African American beekeeper and matriarch in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel "The Secret Life of Bees," who provides guidance and refuge to the protagonist.
  • A. Gulian McEvers
    Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • B. Bones McKinney
    Bones McKinney was an American professional basketball player and later coach, best known for his colorful personality and contributions to early pro basketball and college coaching.
  • C. Lemon Breeland
    Lemon Breeland is a central character on the TV series "Hart of Dixie," known as a prim and proper Southern belle whose personal growth and complicated relationships drive much of the show's drama and humor.
  • D. Semeka Randall
    Semeka Randall is a former American college basketball star and WNBA guard best known for her standout career under coach Pat Summitt at the University of Tennessee.
  • E. Elisha Whittlesey
    Elisha Whittlesey was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Ohio who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and later held key federal financial oversight roles.
  • 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_69a49484688c8190a1bf285eb396a8b6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4be39908481908cca21aaf0828415 completed March 1, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acacb1730c8190aeb60cad33f44597 completed March 7, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acad4a7cd48190b295dbd1e5327a18 completed March 7, 2026, 10:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acadba2e54819088a04675493fcbbb completed March 7, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.