Triple

T14049931
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cap'n Andy Hawks E338059 entity
Predicate characterIn P12208 FINISHED
Object Edna Ferber's novel "Show Boat"
Edna Ferber's novel "Show Boat" is a 1926 American literary work that chronicles the lives, loves, and racial tensions surrounding performers and workers on a Mississippi River showboat, later inspiring the landmark musical adaptation.
E1076702 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: Edna Ferber's novel "Show Boat" | Statement: [Cap'n Andy Hawks, characterIn, Edna Ferber's novel "Show Boat"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edna Ferber's novel "Show Boat"
Context triple: [Cap'n Andy Hawks, characterIn, Edna Ferber's novel "Show Boat"]
  • A. Show Boat
    Show Boat is a landmark American musical, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II, that broke new ground by integrating serious themes and complex characters into its storytelling.
  • B. Porgy (novel)
    Porgy (novel) is a 1925 work by DuBose Heyward that portrays the lives of African American residents in Charleston’s Catfish Row and later served as the basis for the opera Porgy and Bess.
  • C. The Soul of Richard Rodgers
    The Soul of Richard Rodgers is a studio album by Billy Porter that reimagines classic Richard Rodgers compositions through contemporary soul, R&B, and theatrical interpretations.
  • D. Booth Tarkington’s Alice Adams
    Booth Tarkington’s *Alice Adams* is a 1921 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about a young woman from a struggling Midwestern family whose social ambitions and romantic hopes clash with the rigid class expectations of her small town.
  • E. The Ziegfelds' Girl
    The Ziegfelds' Girl is a memoir by Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson recounting her life as the daughter of legendary Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld and actress Billie Burke.
  • 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: Edna Ferber's novel "Show Boat"
Triple: [Cap'n Andy Hawks, characterIn, Edna Ferber's novel "Show Boat"]
Generated description
Edna Ferber's novel "Show Boat" is a 1926 American literary work that chronicles the lives, loves, and racial tensions surrounding performers and workers on a Mississippi River showboat, later inspiring the landmark musical adaptation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edna Ferber's novel "Show Boat"
Target entity description: Edna Ferber's novel "Show Boat" is a 1926 American literary work that chronicles the lives, loves, and racial tensions surrounding performers and workers on a Mississippi River showboat, later inspiring the landmark musical adaptation.
  • A. Show Boat
    Show Boat is a landmark American musical, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II, that broke new ground by integrating serious themes and complex characters into its storytelling.
  • B. Porgy (novel)
    Porgy (novel) is a 1925 work by DuBose Heyward that portrays the lives of African American residents in Charleston’s Catfish Row and later served as the basis for the opera Porgy and Bess.
  • C. The Soul of Richard Rodgers
    The Soul of Richard Rodgers is a studio album by Billy Porter that reimagines classic Richard Rodgers compositions through contemporary soul, R&B, and theatrical interpretations.
  • D. Booth Tarkington’s Alice Adams
    Booth Tarkington’s *Alice Adams* is a 1921 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about a young woman from a struggling Midwestern family whose social ambitions and romantic hopes clash with the rigid class expectations of her small town.
  • E. The Ziegfelds' Girl
    The Ziegfelds' Girl is a memoir by Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson recounting her life as the daughter of legendary Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld and actress Billie Burke.
  • 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_69d81c664e48819088cbd8f433aeffe5 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de3c8a518081908ad030ba48b7b946 completed April 14, 2026, 1:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fbc345a4c081908f803cc53b4f8bca completed May 6, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fc4654f96c8190a4fa6a12bdfbec33 completed May 7, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fc4777e13c8190a705d44d20ca2ca5 completed May 7, 2026, 8:04 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:20 p.m.