Triple

T13979993
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Norton Anthology of African American Literature E336281 entity
Predicate editor P1954 FINISHED
Object Valerie Smith
Valerie Smith is a prominent American scholar of African American literature and culture, known for her influential academic work and leadership in higher education.
 E1172573 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: Valerie Smith | Statement: [The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editor, Valerie Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Valerie Smith
Context triple: [The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editor, Valerie Smith]
  • A. Karen Smith
    Karen Smith is a British television producer best known for creating the hit dance competition series "Strictly Come Dancing."
  • B. Karen Smith
    Karen Smith is a naive and dim-witted but sweet member of the high school clique "The Plastics" in the teen comedy film Mean Girls.
  • C. Valerie Pitts
    Valerie Pitts is a British television presenter and former BBC announcer best known as the widow of renowned conductor Sir Georg Solti.
  • D. Julianne Smith
    Julianne Smith is an American diplomat and foreign policy expert who serves as the United States Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
  • E. Lia Smith
    Lia Smith is an American fitness trainer and Pilates instructor best known for being married to actor Justin Bartha.
  • 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: Valerie Smith
Triple: [The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editor, Valerie Smith]
Generated description
Valerie Smith is a prominent American scholar of African American literature and culture, known for her influential academic work and leadership in higher education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Valerie Smith
Target entity description: Valerie Smith is a prominent American scholar of African American literature and culture, known for her influential academic work and leadership in higher education.
  • A. Karen Smith
    Karen Smith is a British television producer best known for creating the hit dance competition series "Strictly Come Dancing."
  • B. Karen Smith
    Karen Smith is a naive and dim-witted but sweet member of the high school clique "The Plastics" in the teen comedy film Mean Girls.
  • C. Valerie Pitts
    Valerie Pitts is a British television presenter and former BBC announcer best known as the widow of renowned conductor Sir Georg Solti.
  • D. Julianne Smith
    Julianne Smith is an American diplomat and foreign policy expert who serves as the United States Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
  • E. Lia Smith
    Lia Smith is an American fitness trainer and Pilates instructor best known for being married to actor Justin Bartha.
  • 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_69ff7559f0448190a992f0770ac8227a completed May 9, 2026, 5:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff77d4884c81909d43e590d406feff completed May 9, 2026, 6:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff780af73c81909a98f67bd53f7348 completed May 9, 2026, 6:08 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:18 p.m.