Triple

T14851967
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English E349250 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object John Russell Rickford
John Russell Rickford is a prominent sociolinguist known for his influential research and writing on African American Vernacular English and language variation.
E1124024 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: John Russell Rickford | Statement: [Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, author, John Russell Rickford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Russell Rickford
Context triple: [Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, author, John Russell Rickford]
  • A. Charles W. Bailey II
    Charles W. Bailey II was an American journalist and novelist best known for co-authoring the political thriller "Seven Days in May."
  • B. Warner T. Washington
    Warner T. Washington is a music producer best known for his work on the project "Write Me Back."
  • C. Kwame R. Brown
    Kwame R. Brown is an American politician who served as the chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia before resigning amid a federal bank fraud investigation.
  • D. Leroy Hicks
    Leroy Hicks is an individual notable enough to be specifically recorded as a bearer of the surname Hicks, though widely recognized public information about him is limited.
  • E. True W. Williams
    True W. Williams was an illustrator known for providing the original illustrations for Mark Twain’s semi-autobiographical travel book "Roughing It."
  • 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: John Russell Rickford
Triple: [Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, author, John Russell Rickford]
Generated description
John Russell Rickford is a prominent sociolinguist known for his influential research and writing on African American Vernacular English and language variation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Russell Rickford
Target entity description: John Russell Rickford is a prominent sociolinguist known for his influential research and writing on African American Vernacular English and language variation.
  • A. Charles W. Bailey II
    Charles W. Bailey II was an American journalist and novelist best known for co-authoring the political thriller "Seven Days in May."
  • B. Warner T. Washington
    Warner T. Washington is a music producer best known for his work on the project "Write Me Back."
  • C. Kwame R. Brown
    Kwame R. Brown is an American politician who served as the chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia before resigning amid a federal bank fraud investigation.
  • D. Leroy Hicks
    Leroy Hicks is an individual notable enough to be specifically recorded as a bearer of the surname Hicks, though widely recognized public information about him is limited.
  • E. True W. Williams
    True W. Williams was an illustrator known for providing the original illustrations for Mark Twain’s semi-autobiographical travel book "Roughing It."
  • 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_69d822ed7e1881909b90fca143ad7e34 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded441e70881909bbf62b66d932aff completed April 14, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe6506ace48190819504b93f575660 completed May 8, 2026, 10:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe66a5f3a88190827c6c9247323153 completed May 8, 2026, 10:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe6736ff34819098524e4401a414aa completed May 8, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:54 a.m.