Triple

T2483857
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nella Larsen E55879 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Elmer Imes
Elmer Imes was an American physicist renowned as one of the first African Americans to earn a Ph.D. in physics and for his pioneering work in molecular spectroscopy.
E308275 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: Elmer Imes | Statement: [Nella Larsen, spouse, Elmer Imes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elmer Imes
Context triple: [Nella Larsen, spouse, Elmer Imes]
  • A. Zelmo Beaty
    Zelmo Beaty was an American professional basketball center and Hall of Famer known for his dominant play in both the NBA and ABA during the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • B. Louie L. Wainwright
    Louie L. Wainwright was the Director of the Florida Division of Corrections who became historically notable as the named state official in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the right to counsel for indigent defendants.
  • C. Harold McCord
    Harold McCord was a film editor active during the silent film era, known for his work on early American cinema.
  • D. William Drinkard
    William Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape mid-20th-century American gospel music.
  • E. Fred C. Dobbs
    Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
  • 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: Elmer Imes
Triple: [Nella Larsen, spouse, Elmer Imes]
Generated description
Elmer Imes was an American physicist renowned as one of the first African Americans to earn a Ph.D. in physics and for his pioneering work in molecular spectroscopy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elmer Imes
Target entity description: Elmer Imes was an American physicist renowned as one of the first African Americans to earn a Ph.D. in physics and for his pioneering work in molecular spectroscopy.
  • A. Zelmo Beaty
    Zelmo Beaty was an American professional basketball center and Hall of Famer known for his dominant play in both the NBA and ABA during the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • B. Louie L. Wainwright
    Louie L. Wainwright was the Director of the Florida Division of Corrections who became historically notable as the named state official in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the right to counsel for indigent defendants.
  • C. Harold McCord
    Harold McCord was a film editor active during the silent film era, known for his work on early American cinema.
  • D. William Drinkard
    William Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape mid-20th-century American gospel music.
  • E. Fred C. Dobbs
    Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
  • 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_69ab49e670a88190b928e08302381710 completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd1644b5881908d2931a1dfbbd03b completed March 7, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b03104c21c81909fede29ce1e76d88 completed March 10, 2026, 2:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b031b0606c81908ff879fd8464c7d4 completed March 10, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b039a5d7748190a44b878a5be62f54 completed March 10, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:45 p.m.