Triple

T14635196
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Fly in Buttermilk E343584 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object James Baldwin
James Baldwin was an influential American novelist, essayist, and social critic whose works powerfully explored race, sexuality, and identity in the United States.
E11801 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: James Baldwin | Statement: [A Fly in Buttermilk, author, James Baldwin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Baldwin
Context triple: [A Fly in Buttermilk, author, James Baldwin]
  • A. James Baldwin
    James Baldwin was a prominent 20th-century American writer and essayist whose works powerfully explored race, sexuality, and identity in the United States.
  • B. Richard Wright
    Richard Wright was a pioneering 20th-century African American author whose powerful novels and essays, such as "Native Son" and "Black Boy," exposed the brutal realities of racism and profoundly shaped later Black writers and intellectuals.
  • C. Richard Wright
    Richard Wright was the English keyboardist, vocalist, and founding member of the rock band Pink Floyd, known for his atmospheric playing and contributions to the group's signature sound.
  • D. Ralph Ellison
    Ralph Ellison was a prominent 20th-century American novelist, essayist, and critic best known for his groundbreaking novel "Invisible Man," which explores race, identity, and individuality in the United States.
  • E. Horace Julian Bond
    Horace Julian Bond was a prominent American civil rights leader, politician, and educator who co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and served for decades in the Georgia legislature.
  • 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: James Baldwin
Triple: [A Fly in Buttermilk, author, James Baldwin]
Generated description
James Baldwin was an influential American novelist, essayist, and social critic whose works powerfully explored race, sexuality, and identity in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Baldwin
Target entity description: James Baldwin was an influential American novelist, essayist, and social critic whose works powerfully explored race, sexuality, and identity in the United States.
  • A. James Baldwin chosen
    James Baldwin was a prominent 20th-century American writer and essayist whose works powerfully explored race, sexuality, and identity in the United States.
  • B. Richard Wright
    Richard Wright was the English keyboardist, vocalist, and founding member of the rock band Pink Floyd, known for his atmospheric playing and contributions to the group's signature sound.
  • C. Richard Wright
    Richard Wright was a pioneering 20th-century African American author whose powerful novels and essays, such as "Native Son" and "Black Boy," exposed the brutal realities of racism and profoundly shaped later Black writers and intellectuals.
  • D. Ralph Ellison
    Ralph Ellison was a prominent 20th-century American novelist, essayist, and critic best known for his groundbreaking novel "Invisible Man," which explores race, identity, and individuality in the United States.
  • E. Horace Julian Bond
    Horace Julian Bond was a prominent American civil rights leader, politician, and educator who co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and served for decades in the Georgia legislature.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d822dffc3c8190aa173b90761bffda completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb4ab9578819085b4cf7244d30d87 completed April 14, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff56afa5ec8190a058574dff7431dc completed May 9, 2026, 3:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff57c304188190afa695ae88cf0234 completed May 9, 2026, 3:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff5920436c81909addad5bb4566ae9 completed May 9, 2026, 3:56 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:26 a.m.