Triple
T17063245
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Gem of the Ocean |
E414015
|
entity |
| Predicate | featuresCharacter |
P626
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Rutherford Selig
Rutherford Selig is a recurring traveling salesman character in August Wilson’s plays, notably appearing in "Gem of the Ocean" as a white peddler who connects various Black communities through his trade.
|
E737776
|
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: Rutherford Selig | Statement: [Gem of the Ocean, featuresCharacter, Rutherford Selig]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rutherford Selig Context triple: [Gem of the Ocean, featuresCharacter, Rutherford Selig]
-
A.
Rutherford Selig
Rutherford Selig is a traveling peddler and “people finder” in August Wilson’s play *Joe Turner’s Come and Gone*, known for helping characters locate lost family members.
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B.
Dwight W. Morrow
Dwight W. Morrow was an American lawyer, banker, and diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and later as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
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C.
Willard Rouse
Willard Rouse was an American real estate developer and executive best known for his leadership in large-scale urban and suburban development projects, including the planning of the city of Columbia, Maryland.
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D.
George N. Humphrey
George N. Humphrey was an American businessman and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, known for shaping and promoting the administration’s fiscally conservative “Modern Republican” economic policies.
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E.
John A. Pearson
John A. Pearson was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian architect known for designing major public and institutional buildings.
- 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: Rutherford Selig Triple: [Gem of the Ocean, featuresCharacter, Rutherford Selig]
Generated description
Rutherford Selig is a recurring traveling salesman character in August Wilson’s plays, notably appearing in "Gem of the Ocean" as a white peddler who connects various Black communities through his trade.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rutherford Selig Target entity description: Rutherford Selig is a recurring traveling salesman character in August Wilson’s plays, notably appearing in "Gem of the Ocean" as a white peddler who connects various Black communities through his trade.
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A.
Rutherford Selig
chosen
Rutherford Selig is a traveling peddler and “people finder” in August Wilson’s play *Joe Turner’s Come and Gone*, known for helping characters locate lost family members.
-
B.
Dwight W. Morrow
Dwight W. Morrow was an American lawyer, banker, and diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and later as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
-
C.
Willard Rouse
Willard Rouse was an American real estate developer and executive best known for his leadership in large-scale urban and suburban development projects, including the planning of the city of Columbia, Maryland.
-
D.
George N. Humphrey
George N. Humphrey was an American businessman and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, known for shaping and promoting the administration’s fiscally conservative “Modern Republican” economic policies.
-
E.
John A. Pearson
John A. Pearson was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian architect known for designing major public and institutional buildings.
- 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_69d886cde3d481908d4d01ba88ba7eb7 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e3db7eb0808190ae1b0044e2b5cbd7 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 7:29 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a01234be4e4819084701902e7bd3a27 |
completed | May 11, 2026, 12:31 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a0124869c2c8190b84ed4d46492528a |
completed | May 11, 2026, 12:36 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a0124f59490819081e8dc644da92ed6 |
completed | May 11, 2026, 12:38 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:34 a.m.