Triple

T1395925
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject W. E. B. Du Bois E30664 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Shirley Graham Du Bois
Shirley Graham Du Bois was an American writer, playwright, composer, and activist known for her contributions to African American arts and her leadership in Pan-African and civil rights movements.
E167450 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: Shirley Graham Du Bois | Statement: [W. E. B. Du Bois, spouse, Shirley Graham Du Bois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shirley Graham Du Bois
Context triple: [W. E. B. Du Bois, spouse, Shirley Graham Du Bois]
  • A. Marguerite Erskine Walker
    Marguerite Erskine Walker was the wife of American inventor and industrialist George Westinghouse and a prominent Pittsburgh social figure and philanthropist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Nina Gomer Du Bois
    Nina Gomer Du Bois was the first wife of civil rights leader and scholar W. E. B. Du Bois and the mother of their two children.
  • C. Ilyasah Shabazz
    Ilyasah Shabazz is an American author, educator, and activist known for her work preserving and promoting the legacy of her parents, Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, and for writing books on history, social justice, and her family's story.
  • D. Voletta Wallace
    Voletta Wallace is a Jamaican-born American educator and author best known as the mother of rapper The Notorious B.I.G. and for her work preserving his legacy.
  • E. Ella Baker
    Ella Baker was a prominent African American civil rights leader and grassroots organizer who championed participatory democracy and helped shape major organizations like the NAACP, SCLC, and SNCC.
  • 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: Shirley Graham Du Bois
Triple: [W. E. B. Du Bois, spouse, Shirley Graham Du Bois]
Generated description
Shirley Graham Du Bois was an American writer, playwright, composer, and activist known for her contributions to African American arts and her leadership in Pan-African and civil rights movements.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shirley Graham Du Bois
Target entity description: Shirley Graham Du Bois was an American writer, playwright, composer, and activist known for her contributions to African American arts and her leadership in Pan-African and civil rights movements.
  • A. Marguerite Erskine Walker
    Marguerite Erskine Walker was the wife of American inventor and industrialist George Westinghouse and a prominent Pittsburgh social figure and philanthropist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Nina Gomer Du Bois
    Nina Gomer Du Bois was the first wife of civil rights leader and scholar W. E. B. Du Bois and the mother of their two children.
  • C. Ilyasah Shabazz
    Ilyasah Shabazz is an American author, educator, and activist known for her work preserving and promoting the legacy of her parents, Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, and for writing books on history, social justice, and her family's story.
  • D. Voletta Wallace
    Voletta Wallace is a Jamaican-born American educator and author best known as the mother of rapper The Notorious B.I.G. and for her work preserving his legacy.
  • E. Ella Baker
    Ella Baker was a prominent African American civil rights leader and grassroots organizer who championed participatory democracy and helped shape major organizations like the NAACP, SCLC, and SNCC.
  • 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_69a498fd4e408190bd73eca30ea9754c completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c37fd6e0819084d610ef041db3af completed March 1, 2026, 10:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad0e657d3c8190962220e52e3e64c0 completed March 8, 2026, 5:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad0f2b046081908be111f16e2de0fb completed March 8, 2026, 5:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad0fe782548190a437386ee2f4c2d5 completed March 8, 2026, 5:57 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.