Triple

T12301101
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lillian Smith Book Award E293221 entity
Predicate notableWinner P2766 FINISHED
Object Taylor Branch E487330 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Taylor Branch | Statement: [Lillian Smith Book Award, notableWinner, Taylor Branch]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Taylor Branch
Context triple: [Lillian Smith Book Award, notableWinner, Taylor Branch]
  • A. Taylor Branch chosen
    Taylor Branch is an American historian and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning trilogy on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.
  • B. John McMillian
    John McMillian is a Louisiana state prisoner whose excessive-force claim against corrections officers led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Hudson v. McMillian, which clarified Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
  • C. Hampton Sides
    Hampton Sides is an American historian and bestselling narrative nonfiction author known for his gripping accounts of exploration, war, and adventure.
  • D. C. Vann Woodward
    C. Vann Woodward was a prominent American historian best known for his influential works on the history of the American South and race relations in the United States.
  • E. John Hope Franklin
    John Hope Franklin was a pioneering American historian and civil rights advocate renowned for his groundbreaking scholarship on African American history and race in the United States.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d6ab6a2b50819082f6aedd32ed608a elicitation completed
NER batch_69d93edb59908190bcef9d0cdc11081f ner completed
NED1 batch_69f61e7d757881908ac6af2b70a6dafe ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:53 p.m.