Triple
T14411164
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing |
E357328
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Yvonne Vera
Yvonne Vera was a Zimbabwean novelist and scholar renowned for her lyrical, experimental prose and powerful explorations of gender, history, and violence in postcolonial Africa.
|
E1098178
|
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: Yvonne Vera | Statement: [Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing, author, Yvonne Vera]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yvonne Vera Context triple: [Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing, author, Yvonne Vera]
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A.
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey is a Zimbabwean-British editor, critic, and literary curator known for her influential work in contemporary African and international literature.
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B.
Louise Bennett-Coverley
Louise Bennett-Coverley was a pioneering Jamaican poet, folklorist, and performer renowned for legitimizing Jamaican Patois in literature and theatre and for her influential work in Caribbean cultural expression.
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C.
Naomi Mitchison
Naomi Mitchison was a prolific 20th-century Scottish novelist, poet, and social activist known for her historical and speculative fiction as well as her engagement in feminist and socialist causes.
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D.
Mary-Jean Eastman
Mary-Jean Eastman is an American architect and business leader best known as the co-founder of the global architecture and design firm Perkins Eastman.
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E.
Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand is a Trinidad-born Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, and former Toronto Poet Laureate renowned for her powerful explorations of race, gender, diaspora, and social justice.
- 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: Yvonne Vera Triple: [Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing, author, Yvonne Vera]
Generated description
Yvonne Vera was a Zimbabwean novelist and scholar renowned for her lyrical, experimental prose and powerful explorations of gender, history, and violence in postcolonial Africa.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yvonne Vera Target entity description: Yvonne Vera was a Zimbabwean novelist and scholar renowned for her lyrical, experimental prose and powerful explorations of gender, history, and violence in postcolonial Africa.
-
A.
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey is a Zimbabwean-British editor, critic, and literary curator known for her influential work in contemporary African and international literature.
-
B.
Louise Bennett-Coverley
Louise Bennett-Coverley was a pioneering Jamaican poet, folklorist, and performer renowned for legitimizing Jamaican Patois in literature and theatre and for her influential work in Caribbean cultural expression.
-
C.
Naomi Mitchison
Naomi Mitchison was a prolific 20th-century Scottish novelist, poet, and social activist known for her historical and speculative fiction as well as her engagement in feminist and socialist causes.
-
D.
Mary-Jean Eastman
Mary-Jean Eastman is an American architect and business leader best known as the co-founder of the global architecture and design firm Perkins Eastman.
-
E.
Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand is a Trinidad-born Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, and former Toronto Poet Laureate renowned for her powerful explorations of race, gender, diaspora, and social justice.
- 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_69d82793421c8190861eb0e673b085de |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de90c9b3448190aec1608836a5e913 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 7:08 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fd55269d8c81909592277741a93db6 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 3:14 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69fd58216a8c8190b1fffcb670f15e16 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 3:27 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69fd589144b8819099aadef126b8728f |
completed | May 8, 2026, 3:29 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:17 a.m.