Triple

T12484365
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Richard Bruce Nugent E298391 entity
Predicate subjectOf P38 FINISHED
Object Looking for Langston (film, as a character and influence)
Looking for Langston (film, as a character and influence) is a 1989 black-and-white art film by Isaac Julien that lyrically explores the life, legacy, and queer aesthetics of Langston Hughes and his Harlem Renaissance contemporaries.
E983791 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: Looking for Langston (film, as a character and influence) | Statement: [Richard Bruce Nugent, subjectOf, Looking for Langston (film, as a character and influence)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Looking for Langston (film, as a character and influence)
Context triple: [Richard Bruce Nugent, subjectOf, Looking for Langston (film, as a character and influence)]
  • A. Langston
    Langston is the given name of Langston Hughes, the influential American poet, social activist, and central figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
  • B. If Beale Street Could Talk
    If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by James Baldwin that portrays a young Black couple’s love and struggle for justice in Harlem amid systemic racism and wrongful imprisonment.
  • C. Hoke Moseley in Miami Blues
    Hoke Moseley in *Miami Blues* is a grizzled, denture-wearing Miami homicide detective known for his dogged persistence and offbeat, world-weary demeanor.
  • D. Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son
    Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son is a 1961 collection of essays by James Baldwin that explores race, identity, and American society during the civil rights era.
  • E. Black Man’s Verse
    Black Man’s Verse is a 1935 poetry collection by African American writer and activist Frank Marshall Davis that explores Black life, racial injustice, and social struggle in the United States.
  • 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: Looking for Langston (film, as a character and influence)
Triple: [Richard Bruce Nugent, subjectOf, Looking for Langston (film, as a character and influence)]
Generated description
Looking for Langston (film, as a character and influence) is a 1989 black-and-white art film by Isaac Julien that lyrically explores the life, legacy, and queer aesthetics of Langston Hughes and his Harlem Renaissance contemporaries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Looking for Langston (film, as a character and influence)
Target entity description: Looking for Langston (film, as a character and influence) is a 1989 black-and-white art film by Isaac Julien that lyrically explores the life, legacy, and queer aesthetics of Langston Hughes and his Harlem Renaissance contemporaries.
  • A. Langston
    Langston is the given name of Langston Hughes, the influential American poet, social activist, and central figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
  • B. If Beale Street Could Talk
    If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by James Baldwin that portrays a young Black couple’s love and struggle for justice in Harlem amid systemic racism and wrongful imprisonment.
  • C. Hoke Moseley in Miami Blues
    Hoke Moseley in *Miami Blues* is a grizzled, denture-wearing Miami homicide detective known for his dogged persistence and offbeat, world-weary demeanor.
  • D. Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son
    Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son is a 1961 collection of essays by James Baldwin that explores race, identity, and American society during the civil rights era.
  • E. Black Man’s Verse
    Black Man’s Verse is a 1935 poetry collection by African American writer and activist Frank Marshall Davis that explores Black life, racial injustice, and social struggle in the United States.
  • 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_69d6ada377208190a36011199a4d8558 completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94ddf0b6c8190aff4fe267d8f6efe completed April 10, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f63f2b5ed481909ead4f5b96d44064 completed May 2, 2026, 6:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6401199408190ad2657802afd93c9 completed May 2, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f64168d23881908daee7d7cba2160d completed May 2, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:56 p.m.