Triple

T2798000
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walker Evans E53084 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object American Photographs
American Photographs is a landmark 1938 photobook by Walker Evans that powerfully documents American life during the Great Depression and helped define modern documentary photography.
E298370 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: American Photographs | Statement: [Walker Evans, notableWork, American Photographs]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Photographs
Context triple: [Walker Evans, notableWork, American Photographs]
  • A. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans)
    Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans) is a landmark collection of documentary images depicting impoverished tenant farmers in the American South during the Great Depression, created to accompany James Agee’s influential text of the same name.
  • B. Pictures for Photographs
    Pictures for Photographs is a photography book by British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge, showcasing his highly stylized, cinematic, and vividly colored imagery.
  • C. The Making of Americans
    The Making of Americans is an experimental modernist novel by Gertrude Stein that traces the history and psychology of an American family through highly repetitive, innovative prose.
  • D. The Decisive Moment
    The Decisive Moment is a landmark 1952 photography book by Henri Cartier-Bresson that crystallized his influential concept of capturing fleeting, meaningful instants in everyday life.
  • E. On Photography
    On Photography is a section of The New York Times Magazine that explores the art, culture, and impact of photography through essays, features, and visual storytelling.
  • 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: American Photographs
Triple: [Walker Evans, notableWork, American Photographs]
Generated description
American Photographs is a landmark 1938 photobook by Walker Evans that powerfully documents American life during the Great Depression and helped define modern documentary photography.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Photographs
Target entity description: American Photographs is a landmark 1938 photobook by Walker Evans that powerfully documents American life during the Great Depression and helped define modern documentary photography.
  • A. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans)
    Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans) is a landmark collection of documentary images depicting impoverished tenant farmers in the American South during the Great Depression, created to accompany James Agee’s influential text of the same name.
  • B. Pictures for Photographs
    Pictures for Photographs is a photography book by British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge, showcasing his highly stylized, cinematic, and vividly colored imagery.
  • C. The Making of Americans
    The Making of Americans is an experimental modernist novel by Gertrude Stein that traces the history and psychology of an American family through highly repetitive, innovative prose.
  • D. The Decisive Moment
    The Decisive Moment is a landmark 1952 photography book by Henri Cartier-Bresson that crystallized his influential concept of capturing fleeting, meaningful instants in everyday life.
  • E. On Photography
    On Photography is a section of The New York Times Magazine that explores the art, culture, and impact of photography through essays, features, and visual storytelling.
  • 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_69ab495a90788190941b6917e1eca3a6 completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abddf204148190a53f3f30d645d94c completed March 7, 2026, 8:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afc66798148190bd7b163043167409 completed March 10, 2026, 7:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afc6e808708190a6fecd30f47d7e5a completed March 10, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afc766c2508190af1d598eb18d38f7 completed March 10, 2026, 7:25 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:58 p.m.