Triple

T2798104
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans) E53086 entity
Predicate hasAuthorOfAccompanyingText P36598 FINISHED
Object James Agee
James Agee was an American writer, film critic, and screenwriter best known for his lyrical prose, influential criticism, and posthumously awarded Pulitzer Prize for his novel "A Death in the Family."
E298382 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: James Agee | Statement: [Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans), hasAuthorOfAccompanyingText, James Agee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Agee
Context triple: [Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans), hasAuthorOfAccompanyingText, James Agee]
  • A. Thomas Wolfe
    Thomas Wolfe was a major early 20th-century American novelist best known for his sprawling, autobiographical works such as "Look Homeward, Angel."
  • B. Carson McCullers
    Carson McCullers was an American novelist and short story writer known for her haunting explorations of loneliness, identity, and the human condition in the mid-20th-century American South.
  • C. Sherwood Anderson
    Sherwood Anderson was an American modernist writer best known for his influential short story cycle "Winesburg, Ohio," which deeply explored small-town life and psychological realism.
  • D. Kay Boyle
    Kay Boyle was an American writer and political activist associated with the Lost Generation, known for her experimental fiction, poetry, and short stories set in Europe between the World Wars.
  • E. Randall Jarrell
    Randall Jarrell was an American poet, critic, and novelist known for his war-themed poetry and influential literary criticism in the mid-20th century.
  • 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: James Agee
Triple: [Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans), hasAuthorOfAccompanyingText, James Agee]
Generated description
James Agee was an American writer, film critic, and screenwriter best known for his lyrical prose, influential criticism, and posthumously awarded Pulitzer Prize for his novel "A Death in the Family."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Agee
Target entity description: James Agee was an American writer, film critic, and screenwriter best known for his lyrical prose, influential criticism, and posthumously awarded Pulitzer Prize for his novel "A Death in the Family."
  • A. Thomas Wolfe
    Thomas Wolfe was a major early 20th-century American novelist best known for his sprawling, autobiographical works such as "Look Homeward, Angel."
  • B. Carson McCullers
    Carson McCullers was an American novelist and short story writer known for her haunting explorations of loneliness, identity, and the human condition in the mid-20th-century American South.
  • C. Sherwood Anderson
    Sherwood Anderson was an American modernist writer best known for his influential short story cycle "Winesburg, Ohio," which deeply explored small-town life and psychological realism.
  • D. Kay Boyle
    Kay Boyle was an American writer and political activist associated with the Lost Generation, known for her experimental fiction, poetry, and short stories set in Europe between the World Wars.
  • E. Randall Jarrell
    Randall Jarrell was an American poet, critic, and novelist known for his war-themed poetry and influential literary criticism in the mid-20th century.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: hasAuthorOfAccompanyingText
Context triple: [Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans), hasAuthorOfAccompanyingText, James Agee]
  • A. hasAuthor
    Indicates that an entity is written or created by a specific author.
  • B. hasAuthorRelationship
    Indicates a relationship where one entity serves as the author or creator of another entity (such as a work, document, or resource).
  • C. hasCompanionBook
    Indicates that one entity (typically a primary work) is associated with another entity that serves as its companion book, providing supplementary or related content.
  • D. hasCoauthor
    Indicates that two or more entities have jointly authored the same work or publication.
  • E. hasAuthorRelationshipToSubject chosen
    Indicates that an entity serves as the author or creator of the specified subject.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69abdd040f9481908e9c7a2df88ea1ae completed March 7, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:58 p.m.