Triple

T16932942
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Melvin B. Tolson E410756 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Ruth Southall Tolson
Ruth Southall Tolson was the wife of poet and educator Melvin B. Tolson and a supportive partner in his academic and literary career.
E1244791 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: Ruth Southall Tolson | Statement: [Melvin B. Tolson, spouse, Ruth Southall Tolson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ruth Southall Tolson
Context triple: [Melvin B. Tolson, spouse, Ruth Southall Tolson]
  • A. Georgia Douglas Johnson
    Georgia Douglas Johnson was an influential African American poet and playwright of the Harlem Renaissance, known for her poignant explorations of race, gender, and social justice.
  • B. Margaret Walker
    Margaret Walker was an influential African American poet and novelist whose work, including the acclaimed novel "Jubilee," powerfully explored Black history, culture, and identity in the United States.
  • C. Alice Dunbar-Nelson
    Alice Dunbar-Nelson was an American poet, journalist, educator, and civil rights activist associated with the Harlem Renaissance and early 20th-century Black feminist thought.
  • D. Jessie Redmon Fauset
    Jessie Redmon Fauset was an influential Harlem Renaissance novelist, poet, and editor whose work explored the lives and inner worlds of Black middle-class Americans.
  • E. Gwendolyn Brooks
    Gwendolyn Brooks was a pioneering African American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner whose work powerfully depicted Black urban life and influenced generations of writers and artists.
  • 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: Ruth Southall Tolson
Triple: [Melvin B. Tolson, spouse, Ruth Southall Tolson]
Generated description
Ruth Southall Tolson was the wife of poet and educator Melvin B. Tolson and a supportive partner in his academic and literary career.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ruth Southall Tolson
Target entity description: Ruth Southall Tolson was the wife of poet and educator Melvin B. Tolson and a supportive partner in his academic and literary career.
  • A. Georgia Douglas Johnson
    Georgia Douglas Johnson was an influential African American poet and playwright of the Harlem Renaissance, known for her poignant explorations of race, gender, and social justice.
  • B. Margaret Walker
    Margaret Walker was an influential African American poet and novelist whose work, including the acclaimed novel "Jubilee," powerfully explored Black history, culture, and identity in the United States.
  • C. Alice Dunbar-Nelson
    Alice Dunbar-Nelson was an American poet, journalist, educator, and civil rights activist associated with the Harlem Renaissance and early 20th-century Black feminist thought.
  • D. Jessie Redmon Fauset
    Jessie Redmon Fauset was an influential Harlem Renaissance novelist, poet, and editor whose work explored the lives and inner worlds of Black middle-class Americans.
  • E. Gwendolyn Brooks
    Gwendolyn Brooks was a pioneering African American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner whose work powerfully depicted Black urban life and influenced generations of writers and artists.
  • 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_69d886c886688190967be07322597ac9 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3cf2650e08190b669d0cf2cf1275b completed April 18, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00dc024d7c8190b8055833ed8908d5 completed May 10, 2026, 7:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0114d33cac819083d8e542ea5bc274 completed May 10, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0115c967b0819088e2335fd45d755b completed May 10, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:30 a.m.