Triple

T12484613
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life E298398 entity
Predicate coWriter P2389 FINISHED
Object William Jourdan Rapp
William Jourdan Rapp was an American playwright and theater figure known for co-writing early 20th-century stage works depicting African American life, including the play "Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life."
E1070017 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: William Jourdan Rapp | Statement: [Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life, coWriter, William Jourdan Rapp]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Jourdan Rapp
Context triple: [Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life, coWriter, William Jourdan Rapp]
  • A. William LeBaron
    William LeBaron was an American film producer and studio executive active during the early 20th century, known for overseeing numerous Hollywood productions in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • B. George Drouillard
    George Drouillard was a skilled French-Canadian-Shawnee hunter, interpreter, and scout who played a crucial role in the success of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
  • C. William Holmes Brown
    William Holmes Brown was a long-serving Parliamentarian of the U.S. House of Representatives, known for his expertise in legislative procedure and influential role in guiding House operations.
  • D. Cornelius W. Rapp
    Cornelius W. Rapp was an American architect best known for designing grand movie palaces and theaters in the early 20th century.
  • E. Charles Jennings
    Charles Jennings was a Canadian journalist and radio broadcaster, best known for his work with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and as the father of news anchor Peter Jennings.
  • 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: William Jourdan Rapp
Triple: [Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life, coWriter, William Jourdan Rapp]
Generated description
William Jourdan Rapp was an American playwright and theater figure known for co-writing early 20th-century stage works depicting African American life, including the play "Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Jourdan Rapp
Target entity description: William Jourdan Rapp was an American playwright and theater figure known for co-writing early 20th-century stage works depicting African American life, including the play "Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life."
  • A. William LeBaron
    William LeBaron was an American film producer and studio executive active during the early 20th century, known for overseeing numerous Hollywood productions in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • B. George Drouillard
    George Drouillard was a skilled French-Canadian-Shawnee hunter, interpreter, and scout who played a crucial role in the success of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
  • C. William Holmes Brown
    William Holmes Brown was a long-serving Parliamentarian of the U.S. House of Representatives, known for his expertise in legislative procedure and influential role in guiding House operations.
  • D. Cornelius W. Rapp
    Cornelius W. Rapp was an American architect best known for designing grand movie palaces and theaters in the early 20th century.
  • E. Charles Jennings
    Charles Jennings was a Canadian journalist and radio broadcaster, best known for his work with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and as the father of news anchor Peter Jennings.
  • 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_69f7ce593bbc8190827ca217f43140b9 completed May 3, 2026, 10:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f9fd56da288190b2bd33bc496c3fb9 completed May 5, 2026, 2:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fb039fdb1c8190ad5286d1cfe80a29 completed May 6, 2026, 9:02 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:56 p.m.