Triple

T1951903
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ma Rainey's Black Bottom E42176 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey was a pioneering early 20th-century American blues singer, often called the "Mother of the Blues," known for her powerful voice and influential recordings.
E219108 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: Ma Rainey | Statement: [Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, mainCharacter, Ma Rainey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ma Rainey
Context triple: [Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, mainCharacter, Ma Rainey]
  • A. Bessie Smith
    Bessie Smith was a pioneering American blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, celebrated as the "Empress of the Blues" for her powerful voice and influential recordings.
  • B. Mamie Smith
    Mamie Smith was an American blues singer and vaudeville performer credited with making the first recorded blues vocal by an African American artist, helping to launch the classic female blues era.
  • C. Memphis Minnie
    Memphis Minnie was a pioneering American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter renowned for her powerful vocals, virtuosic guitar work, and influential recordings from the 1920s through the 1950s.
  • D. Odetta
    Odetta was a pioneering American folk and blues singer whose powerful voice and politically charged repertoire made her a key musical figure in the civil rights movement and the mid-20th-century folk revival.
  • E. Billie Holiday
    Billie Holiday was a pioneering American jazz and blues singer renowned for her emotive voice, distinctive phrasing, and profound influence on generations of vocalists.
  • 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: Ma Rainey
Triple: [Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, mainCharacter, Ma Rainey]
Generated description
Ma Rainey was a pioneering early 20th-century American blues singer, often called the "Mother of the Blues," known for her powerful voice and influential recordings.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ma Rainey
Target entity description: Ma Rainey was a pioneering early 20th-century American blues singer, often called the "Mother of the Blues," known for her powerful voice and influential recordings.
  • A. Bessie Smith
    Bessie Smith was a pioneering American blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, celebrated as the "Empress of the Blues" for her powerful voice and influential recordings.
  • B. Mamie Smith
    Mamie Smith was an American blues singer and vaudeville performer credited with making the first recorded blues vocal by an African American artist, helping to launch the classic female blues era.
  • C. Memphis Minnie
    Memphis Minnie was a pioneering American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter renowned for her powerful vocals, virtuosic guitar work, and influential recordings from the 1920s through the 1950s.
  • D. Odetta
    Odetta was a pioneering American folk and blues singer whose powerful voice and politically charged repertoire made her a key musical figure in the civil rights movement and the mid-20th-century folk revival.
  • E. Billie Holiday
    Billie Holiday was a pioneering American jazz and blues singer renowned for her emotive voice, distinctive phrasing, and profound influence on generations of vocalists.
  • 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.