Triple

T13979992
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Norton Anthology of African American Literature E336281 entity
Predicate editor P1954 FINISHED
Object Hortense Spillers
Hortense Spillers is a prominent American literary critic and Black feminist theorist known for her influential work on African American literature, gender, and cultural theory.
E1072275 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: Hortense Spillers | Statement: [The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editor, Hortense Spillers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hortense Spillers
Context triple: [The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editor, Hortense Spillers]
  • A. Hortense Daigle
    Hortense Daigle is a grieving, hard-drinking mother in Maxwell Anderson’s play and its film adaptation "The Bad Seed," whose suspicions about her son’s death drive key moments of tension and tragedy.
  • B. Hortense Powdermaker
    Hortense Powdermaker was an American anthropologist and ethnographer known for her pioneering fieldwork on race relations, media, and modern industrial societies.
  • C. Hortense
    Hortense is a feminine given name of French origin, historically borne by notable figures such as Queen Hortense de Beauharnais of Holland.
  • D. Bertha Honoré
    Bertha Honoré was an American socialite and influential Chicago businesswoman and philanthropist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Huguette
    Huguette is a French feminine given name, traditionally used as the female counterpart of Hugues.
  • 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: Hortense Spillers
Triple: [The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editor, Hortense Spillers]
Generated description
Hortense Spillers is a prominent American literary critic and Black feminist theorist known for her influential work on African American literature, gender, and cultural theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hortense Spillers
Target entity description: Hortense Spillers is a prominent American literary critic and Black feminist theorist known for her influential work on African American literature, gender, and cultural theory.
  • A. Hortense Daigle
    Hortense Daigle is a grieving, hard-drinking mother in Maxwell Anderson’s play and its film adaptation "The Bad Seed," whose suspicions about her son’s death drive key moments of tension and tragedy.
  • B. Hortense Powdermaker
    Hortense Powdermaker was an American anthropologist and ethnographer known for her pioneering fieldwork on race relations, media, and modern industrial societies.
  • C. Hortense
    Hortense is a feminine given name of French origin, historically borne by notable figures such as Queen Hortense de Beauharnais of Holland.
  • D. Bertha Honoré
    Bertha Honoré was an American socialite and influential Chicago businesswoman and philanthropist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Huguette
    Huguette is a French feminine given name, traditionally used as the female counterpart of Hugues.
  • 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_69fba1e3cafc8190a1806a29b2e46ae9 completed May 6, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fba74a96b08190a08c51c231e49e5d completed May 6, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fba8585fb08190998d6a005dc0bd31 completed May 6, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:18 p.m.