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]
  • 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
  • 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.