Triple

T15010615
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks E377824 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Rebecca Skloot
Rebecca Skloot is an American science writer best known for her bestselling nonfiction book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," which explores the ethics of medical research and the story behind the HeLa cell line.
E1131616 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: Rebecca Skloot | Statement: [The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, author, Rebecca Skloot]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rebecca Skloot
Context triple: [The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, author, Rebecca Skloot]
  • A. Susanne Blakeslee
    Susanne Blakeslee is an American voice actress best known for portraying iconic Disney villains such as Maleficent and Lady Tremaine, as well as Wanda and other characters on The Fairly OddParents.
  • B. Kathryn Grody
    Kathryn Grody is an American actress and writer known for her work in theater, film, and television, as well as for her long-standing marriage and creative partnership with actor Mandy Patinkin.
  • C. Natalie Angier
    Natalie Angier is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American science journalist and author known for her engaging, accessible explorations of biology and science in popular books and articles.
  • D. Ellen Goldsmith-Vein
    Ellen Goldsmith-Vein is an American film and television producer and talent manager, best known as the founder of The Gotham Group and for producing numerous high-profile adaptations of books and graphic novels.
  • E. Susannah Cahalan
    Susannah Cahalan is an American journalist and author best known for her memoir "Brain on Fire," which chronicles her harrowing experience with a rare autoimmune encephalitis that caused severe psychiatric and neurological symptoms.
  • 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: Rebecca Skloot
Triple: [The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, author, Rebecca Skloot]
Generated description
Rebecca Skloot is an American science writer best known for her bestselling nonfiction book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," which explores the ethics of medical research and the story behind the HeLa cell line.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rebecca Skloot
Target entity description: Rebecca Skloot is an American science writer best known for her bestselling nonfiction book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," which explores the ethics of medical research and the story behind the HeLa cell line.
  • A. Susanne Blakeslee
    Susanne Blakeslee is an American voice actress best known for portraying iconic Disney villains such as Maleficent and Lady Tremaine, as well as Wanda and other characters on The Fairly OddParents.
  • B. Kathryn Grody
    Kathryn Grody is an American actress and writer known for her work in theater, film, and television, as well as for her long-standing marriage and creative partnership with actor Mandy Patinkin.
  • C. Natalie Angier
    Natalie Angier is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American science journalist and author known for her engaging, accessible explorations of biology and science in popular books and articles.
  • D. Ellen Goldsmith-Vein
    Ellen Goldsmith-Vein is an American film and television producer and talent manager, best known as the founder of The Gotham Group and for producing numerous high-profile adaptations of books and graphic novels.
  • E. Susannah Cahalan
    Susannah Cahalan is an American journalist and author best known for her memoir "Brain on Fire," which chronicles her harrowing experience with a rare autoimmune encephalitis that caused severe psychiatric and neurological symptoms.
  • 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_69d85cd3a3c881908c71fc424d459c17 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded734943481908dad4ceed4fe850c completed April 15, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe96a7dcac8190b0153d7cdac03afa completed May 9, 2026, 2:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe98288b348190b4e25b09f83f0ec4 completed May 9, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe98e585308190ac0e1c0a91c89113 completed May 9, 2026, 2:16 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:55 a.m.