Triple

T1235800
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Black Nativity E26544 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Aretha Cobbs
Aretha Cobbs is a character in the musical and film "Black Nativity," which reimagines the Nativity story through an African-American gospel lens.
E199241 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: Aretha Cobbs | Statement: [Black Nativity, featuresCharacter, Aretha Cobbs]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aretha Cobbs
Context triple: [Black Nativity, featuresCharacter, Aretha Cobbs]
  • A. Gladys Irene Owens
    Gladys Irene Owens was the first wife of James Roosevelt II, the eldest son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
  • B. Leola Brown
    Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
  • C. Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Franklin was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist widely known as the "Queen of Soul" and celebrated for her powerful voice and profound influence on popular music.
  • D. Cissy Houston
    Cissy Houston is an American soul and gospel singer, renowned both for her own recording and backup vocal career and as the matriarch of the Houston musical family.
  • E. Carla Thomas
    Carla Thomas is an American soul singer, often called the "Queen of Memphis Soul," known for hits like "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)" and her influential recordings with Stax Records.
  • 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: Aretha Cobbs
Triple: [Black Nativity, featuresCharacter, Aretha Cobbs]
Generated description
Aretha Cobbs is a character in the musical and film "Black Nativity," which reimagines the Nativity story through an African-American gospel lens.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aretha Cobbs
Target entity description: Aretha Cobbs is a character in the musical and film "Black Nativity," which reimagines the Nativity story through an African-American gospel lens.
  • A. Gladys Irene Owens
    Gladys Irene Owens was the first wife of James Roosevelt II, the eldest son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
  • B. Leola Brown
    Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
  • C. Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Franklin was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist widely known as the "Queen of Soul" and celebrated for her powerful voice and profound influence on popular music.
  • D. Cissy Houston
    Cissy Houston is an American soul and gospel singer, renowned both for her own recording and backup vocal career and as the matriarch of the Houston musical family.
  • E. Carla Thomas
    Carla Thomas is an American soul singer, often called the "Queen of Memphis Soul," known for hits like "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)" and her influential recordings with Stax Records.
  • 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_69a4948571c88190a9191e451e6035fd completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bf169868819090cfab7e34c40c67 completed March 1, 2026, 10:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ada95d71888190aa49a3011ea2a1bc completed March 8, 2026, 4:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adae972d1081909cd13e8220c3ccc6 completed March 8, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adaf9d042481909dbd54d9e04e444e completed March 8, 2026, 5:19 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.