Triple
T12793408
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Backwater Blues |
E305825
|
entity |
| Predicate | lyricist |
P1360
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Bessie Smith |
E56866
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Bessie Smith | Statement: [Backwater Blues, lyricist, Bessie Smith]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bessie Smith Context triple: [Backwater Blues, lyricist, Bessie Smith]
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A.
Bessie Smith
chosen
Bessie Smith was a pioneering American blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, celebrated as the "Empress of the Blues" for her powerful voice and influential recordings.
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B.
Bessie Springs Smith
Bessie Springs Smith was the wife of prominent American architect Stanford White and a member of New York society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey was a pioneering early 20th-century American blues singer, often called the "Mother of the Blues," known for her powerful voice and influential recordings.
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D.
Pa Rainey
Pa Rainey was the husband of pioneering blues singer Ma Rainey and a figure associated with the early development of the blues scene in the American South.
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E.
Mamie Smith
Mamie Smith was an American blues singer and vaudeville performer credited with making the first recorded blues vocal by an African American artist, helping to launch the classic female blues era.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d7bdf366888190a8cccb982606889c |
completed | April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d96e6ca0288190aba01735b71a01da |
completed | April 10, 2026, 9:41 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f77f72e950819082326a8f84a8a260 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 5:01 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:30 p.m.