Triple

T1951890
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ma Rainey's Black Bottom E42176 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Ruben Santiago-Hudson is an American actor, playwright, and director known for his award-winning work on stage and screen, including adaptations of August Wilson’s plays.
E219107 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: Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Statement: [Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, screenwriter, Ruben Santiago-Hudson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Context triple: [Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, screenwriter, Ruben Santiago-Hudson]
  • A. Junot Díaz
    Junot Díaz is a Dominican American writer and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for his novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," which explores themes of diaspora, identity, and dictatorship.
  • B. Adam Johnson
    Adam Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his novel "The Orphan Master's Son," which explores life in North Korea.
  • C. Colson Whitehead
    Colson Whitehead is an acclaimed American novelist known for works such as "The Underground Railroad" and "The Nickel Boys," which blend historical fiction with sharp social commentary and have earned him multiple major literary awards.
  • D. Michael Cunningham
    Michael Cunningham is an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Hours," which reimagines Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs. Dalloway."
  • E. Samora Pinderhughes
    Samora Pinderhughes is an American pianist, composer, and interdisciplinary artist known for politically charged, socially conscious music that blends jazz, classical, and spoken word.
  • 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: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Triple: [Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, screenwriter, Ruben Santiago-Hudson]
Generated description
Ruben Santiago-Hudson is an American actor, playwright, and director known for his award-winning work on stage and screen, including adaptations of August Wilson’s plays.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Target entity description: Ruben Santiago-Hudson is an American actor, playwright, and director known for his award-winning work on stage and screen, including adaptations of August Wilson’s plays.
  • A. Junot Díaz
    Junot Díaz is a Dominican American writer and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for his novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," which explores themes of diaspora, identity, and dictatorship.
  • B. Adam Johnson
    Adam Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his novel "The Orphan Master's Son," which explores life in North Korea.
  • C. Colson Whitehead
    Colson Whitehead is an acclaimed American novelist known for works such as "The Underground Railroad" and "The Nickel Boys," which blend historical fiction with sharp social commentary and have earned him multiple major literary awards.
  • D. Michael Cunningham
    Michael Cunningham is an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Hours," which reimagines Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs. Dalloway."
  • E. Samora Pinderhughes
    Samora Pinderhughes is an American pianist, composer, and interdisciplinary artist known for politically charged, socially conscious music that blends jazz, classical, and spoken word.
  • 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.