Triple
T13979982
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Norton Anthology of African American Literature |
E336281
|
entity |
| Predicate | editor |
P1954
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Nellie Y. McKay |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Nellie Y. McKay | Statement: [The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editor, Nellie Y. McKay]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nellie Y. McKay Context triple: [The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editor, Nellie Y. McKay]
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A.
Mildred R. Buchanan
Mildred R. Buchanan was the wife of American character actor Edgar Buchanan, known for their long marriage that lasted until his death.
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B.
Mildred McAfee Horton
Mildred McAfee Horton was an American educator and naval officer who became the first director of the U.S. Navy’s WAVES program and the first woman commissioned as a line officer in the U.S. Navy.
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C.
Olive E. Kenny
Olive E. Kenny was a translator known for rendering works such as Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Sugar Street" into English.
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D.
Mary Louise McLean
Mary Louise McLean was the daughter of American socialite Mildred McLean Hazen, connected to a prominent Washington, D.C. family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Margaret A. Merritt
Margaret A. Merritt was an American woman best known as the mother of Janet Lee Bouvier, making her the maternal grandmother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nellie Y. McKay Target entity description: Nellie Y. McKay was a prominent literary scholar and professor known for her influential work in African American literature and feminist criticism.
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A.
Mildred R. Buchanan
Mildred R. Buchanan was the wife of American character actor Edgar Buchanan, known for their long marriage that lasted until his death.
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B.
Mildred McAfee Horton
Mildred McAfee Horton was an American educator and naval officer who became the first director of the U.S. Navy’s WAVES program and the first woman commissioned as a line officer in the U.S. Navy.
-
C.
Olive E. Kenny
Olive E. Kenny was a translator known for rendering works such as Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Sugar Street" into English.
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D.
Mary Louise McLean
Mary Louise McLean was the daughter of American socialite Mildred McLean Hazen, connected to a prominent Washington, D.C. family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
-
E.
Margaret A. Merritt
Margaret A. Merritt was an American woman best known as the mother of Janet Lee Bouvier, making her the maternal grandmother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 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_69d81c639e808190a0e4b4f3d31c6a59 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de2ea10dc88190b9720919a021e570 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 12:10 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:18 p.m.