Triple

T13979987
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Norton Anthology of African American Literature E336281 entity
Predicate editor P1954 FINISHED
Object Frances Smith Foster
Frances Smith Foster is a prominent American literary scholar and historian known for her pioneering work on African American women's writing and 19th-century Black literature.
E1090034 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: Frances Smith Foster | Statement: [The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editor, Frances Smith Foster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frances Smith Foster
Context triple: [The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editor, Frances Smith Foster]
  • A. Marian Walker Brown
    Marian Walker Brown was the wife of U.S. Senator Prentiss M. Brown and a member of a prominent Michigan political family in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Frances Octavia Smith
    Frances Octavia Smith, better known as Dale Evans, was an American actress, singer, and songwriter famed as the “Queen of the West” and longtime co-star and wife of cowboy star Roy Rogers.
  • C. Elizabeth C. Ware
    Elizabeth C. Ware was a benefactor whose financial support helped make possible the creation or acquisition of the renowned Blaschka Glass Models of Plants.
  • D. Augusta Barnett Miller
    Augusta Barnett Miller was the mother of renowned American playwright Arthur Miller and a member of a Polish-Jewish immigrant family in New York City.
  • E. Frances Smith
    Frances Smith was the wife of William Edward Nightingale and the mother of Florence Nightingale, the pioneering nurse and social reformer.
  • 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: Frances Smith Foster
Triple: [The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editor, Frances Smith Foster]
Generated description
Frances Smith Foster is a prominent American literary scholar and historian known for her pioneering work on African American women's writing and 19th-century Black literature.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frances Smith Foster
Target entity description: Frances Smith Foster is a prominent American literary scholar and historian known for her pioneering work on African American women's writing and 19th-century Black literature.
  • A. Marian Walker Brown
    Marian Walker Brown was the wife of U.S. Senator Prentiss M. Brown and a member of a prominent Michigan political family in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Frances Octavia Smith
    Frances Octavia Smith, better known as Dale Evans, was an American actress, singer, and songwriter famed as the “Queen of the West” and longtime co-star and wife of cowboy star Roy Rogers.
  • C. Elizabeth C. Ware
    Elizabeth C. Ware was a benefactor whose financial support helped make possible the creation or acquisition of the renowned Blaschka Glass Models of Plants.
  • D. Augusta Barnett Miller
    Augusta Barnett Miller was the mother of renowned American playwright Arthur Miller and a member of a Polish-Jewish immigrant family in New York City.
  • E. Frances Smith
    Frances Smith was the wife of William Edward Nightingale and the mother of Florence Nightingale, the pioneering nurse and social reformer.
  • 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_69d81c639e808190a0e4b4f3d31c6a59 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de2ea10dc88190b9720919a021e570 completed April 14, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd323e89948190bb280e93e2058c0a completed May 8, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd33d981408190b017164a04676f4c completed May 8, 2026, 12:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd3437f90081908c325f0a36993f57 completed May 8, 2026, 12:54 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:18 p.m.