Triple

T13222537
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alan Lomax E314790 entity
Predicate hasCollection P426 FINISHED
Object Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center
The Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center is a major archival repository of field recordings, photographs, films, and documentation of traditional music and oral culture gathered by folklorist Alan Lomax from around the world.
E1027939 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: Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center | Statement: [Alan Lomax, hasCollection, Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center
Context triple: [Alan Lomax, hasCollection, Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center]
  • A. Southern Folklife Collection
    The Southern Folklife Collection is a renowned archival repository at UNC-Chapel Hill dedicated to preserving and documenting the music, art, and cultural traditions of the American South.
  • B. Loeb Music Library
    Loeb Music Library is Harvard University's primary music research library, housing extensive collections of scores, recordings, and musicological resources.
  • C. United States National Recording Registry
    The United States National Recording Registry is a program of the Library of Congress that annually selects and preserves sound recordings deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant to American life.
  • D. National Anthropological Archives
    The National Anthropological Archives is a major research repository of the Smithsonian Institution that preserves and provides access to anthropological fieldnotes, photographs, recordings, and other primary materials documenting cultures around the world, especially Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
  • E. Folk Archive
    Folk Archive is a collaborative art project by Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane that documents and celebrates contemporary British folk art and everyday creativity.
  • 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: Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center
Triple: [Alan Lomax, hasCollection, Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center]
Generated description
The Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center is a major archival repository of field recordings, photographs, films, and documentation of traditional music and oral culture gathered by folklorist Alan Lomax from around the world.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center
Target entity description: The Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center is a major archival repository of field recordings, photographs, films, and documentation of traditional music and oral culture gathered by folklorist Alan Lomax from around the world.
  • A. Southern Folklife Collection
    The Southern Folklife Collection is a renowned archival repository at UNC-Chapel Hill dedicated to preserving and documenting the music, art, and cultural traditions of the American South.
  • B. Loeb Music Library
    Loeb Music Library is Harvard University's primary music research library, housing extensive collections of scores, recordings, and musicological resources.
  • C. United States National Recording Registry
    The United States National Recording Registry is a program of the Library of Congress that annually selects and preserves sound recordings deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant to American life.
  • D. National Anthropological Archives
    The National Anthropological Archives is a major research repository of the Smithsonian Institution that preserves and provides access to anthropological fieldnotes, photographs, recordings, and other primary materials documenting cultures around the world, especially Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
  • E. Folk Archive
    Folk Archive is a collaborative art project by Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane that documents and celebrates contemporary British folk art and everyday creativity.
  • 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_69d806affc688190a25b6ccc588e9c72 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98cf74d708190a61d8ad938653b06 completed April 10, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6ff24be9881908b96f3e72325e55f completed May 3, 2026, 7:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7001924d48190af7d430cb258409a completed May 3, 2026, 7:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f700cfb43881909c903ec12b15065a completed May 3, 2026, 8:01 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:19 p.m.