Triple

T1951886
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ma Rainey's Black Bottom E42176 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object George C. Wolfe
George C. Wolfe is an acclaimed American theater and film director and playwright known for his influential work on Broadway and in cinema, particularly in bringing powerful African American stories to the screen and stage.
E219106 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: George C. Wolfe | Statement: [Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, director, George C. Wolfe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George C. Wolfe
Context triple: [Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, director, George C. Wolfe]
  • A. Terrence McNally
    Terrence McNally was an acclaimed American playwright known for his insightful, often darkly comic explorations of human relationships, LGBTQ+ themes, and contemporary social issues in works such as "Love! Valour! Compassion!" and "Master Class."
  • B. Lynn Nottage
    Lynn Nottage is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American playwright renowned for socially conscious works such as "Ruined" and "Sweat."
  • C. Kenneth Lonergan
    Kenneth Lonergan is an American playwright and filmmaker known for his sharply observed, character-driven works such as the play "This Is Our Youth" and the film "Manchester by the Sea."
  • D. Harvey Fierstein
    Harvey Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and LGBT activist known for his distinctive gravelly voice and influential works in theater and film.
  • E. Sam Shepard
    Sam Shepard was an American playwright, actor, and director renowned for his innovative, often haunting depictions of the American West and family dysfunction in works like "Buried Child" and "True West."
  • 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: George C. Wolfe
Triple: [Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, director, George C. Wolfe]
Generated description
George C. Wolfe is an acclaimed American theater and film director and playwright known for his influential work on Broadway and in cinema, particularly in bringing powerful African American stories to the screen and stage.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George C. Wolfe
Target entity description: George C. Wolfe is an acclaimed American theater and film director and playwright known for his influential work on Broadway and in cinema, particularly in bringing powerful African American stories to the screen and stage.
  • A. Terrence McNally
    Terrence McNally was an acclaimed American playwright known for his insightful, often darkly comic explorations of human relationships, LGBTQ+ themes, and contemporary social issues in works such as "Love! Valour! Compassion!" and "Master Class."
  • B. Lynn Nottage
    Lynn Nottage is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American playwright renowned for socially conscious works such as "Ruined" and "Sweat."
  • C. Kenneth Lonergan
    Kenneth Lonergan is an American playwright and filmmaker known for his sharply observed, character-driven works such as the play "This Is Our Youth" and the film "Manchester by the Sea."
  • D. Harvey Fierstein
    Harvey Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and LGBT activist known for his distinctive gravelly voice and influential works in theater and film.
  • E. Sam Shepard
    Sam Shepard was an American playwright, actor, and director renowned for his innovative, often haunting depictions of the American West and family dysfunction in works like "Buried Child" and "True West."
  • 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_69a8870e08fc8190a319cbf2600db15f completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb34eb5748190a3ac395252951eba completed March 7, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adfbc3cf6881909d42a04be18c3c73 completed March 8, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adfcd009d88190ba7f380aa1c82300 completed March 8, 2026, 10:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adfd946b6081908ab6358d0f237a58 completed March 8, 2026, 10:52 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.