Triple

T14851968
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English E349250 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Russell John Rickford
Russell John Rickford is an American historian and author known for his scholarship on African American history, culture, and language.
E1127888 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: Russell John Rickford | Statement: [Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, author, Russell John Rickford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Russell John Rickford
Context triple: [Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, author, Russell John Rickford]
  • A. James G. Robinson
    James G. Robinson is an American film producer and co-founder of Morgan Creek Productions, known for backing numerous major Hollywood films.
  • B. Johannes Roberts
    Johannes Roberts is a British filmmaker best known for directing horror and thriller films such as the shark-survival sequel "47 Meters Down: Uncaged" and the video game adaptation "Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City."
  • C. Rob Cunningham
    Rob Cunningham is a Canadian video game developer best known as a co-founder of Relic Entertainment and the founder and CEO of Blackbird Interactive, where he has led the creation of acclaimed strategy and sci-fi titles.
  • D. William Roberts
    William Roberts was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the classic Western film "The Magnificent Seven" (1960).
  • E. William Roberts
    William Roberts was a British painter associated with the Vorticist movement, known for his modernist depictions of urban life and wartime scenes.
  • 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: Russell John Rickford
Triple: [Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, author, Russell John Rickford]
Generated description
Russell John Rickford is an American historian and author known for his scholarship on African American history, culture, and language.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Russell John Rickford
Target entity description: Russell John Rickford is an American historian and author known for his scholarship on African American history, culture, and language.
  • A. James G. Robinson
    James G. Robinson is an American film producer and co-founder of Morgan Creek Productions, known for backing numerous major Hollywood films.
  • B. Johannes Roberts
    Johannes Roberts is a British filmmaker best known for directing horror and thriller films such as the shark-survival sequel "47 Meters Down: Uncaged" and the video game adaptation "Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City."
  • C. Rob Cunningham
    Rob Cunningham is a Canadian video game developer best known as a co-founder of Relic Entertainment and the founder and CEO of Blackbird Interactive, where he has led the creation of acclaimed strategy and sci-fi titles.
  • D. William Roberts
    William Roberts was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the classic Western film "The Magnificent Seven" (1960).
  • E. William Roberts
    William Roberts was a British painter associated with the Vorticist movement, known for his modernist depictions of urban life and wartime scenes.
  • 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_69fe7e7fc904819094269b7c785ead69 completed May 9, 2026, 12:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe8005a12881909d701188ab0a95b7 completed May 9, 2026, 12:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe8052b5fc8190841d65a736dadbce completed May 9, 2026, 12:31 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:54 a.m.