Triple
T2798129
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans) |
E53086
|
entity |
| Predicate | documentedBy |
P4310
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
James Agee (text)
James Agee (text) is the lyrical, introspective prose by American writer James Agee that accompanies Walker Evans’s photographs in the documentary work *Let Us Now Praise Famous Men*, portraying the lives of impoverished tenant farmers in the 1930s American South.
|
E298383
|
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: James Agee (text) | Statement: [Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans), documentedBy, James Agee (text)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Agee (text) Context triple: [Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans), documentedBy, James Agee (text)]
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A.
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.
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B.
Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe was a major early 20th-century American novelist best known for his sprawling, autobiographical works such as "Look Homeward, Angel."
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C.
James Wright (poet)
James Wright was an American poet known for his emotionally resonant, image-rich verse and his association with the Deep Image movement in mid-20th-century poetry.
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D.
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg was an American poet, writer, and folklorist known for his free-verse depictions of industrial America and his celebrated biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
James Wright
James Wright was the last British royal governor of Georgia, known for his strong Loyalist stance and efforts to maintain British control during the American Revolutionary period.
- 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 (text) Triple: [Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans), documentedBy, James Agee (text)]
Generated description
James Agee (text) is the lyrical, introspective prose by American writer James Agee that accompanies Walker Evans’s photographs in the documentary work *Let Us Now Praise Famous Men*, portraying the lives of impoverished tenant farmers in the 1930s American South.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Agee (text) Target entity description: James Agee (text) is the lyrical, introspective prose by American writer James Agee that accompanies Walker Evans’s photographs in the documentary work *Let Us Now Praise Famous Men*, portraying the lives of impoverished tenant farmers in the 1930s American South.
-
A.
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.
-
B.
Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe was a major early 20th-century American novelist best known for his sprawling, autobiographical works such as "Look Homeward, Angel."
-
C.
James Wright (poet)
James Wright was an American poet known for his emotionally resonant, image-rich verse and his association with the Deep Image movement in mid-20th-century poetry.
-
D.
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg was an American poet, writer, and folklorist known for his free-verse depictions of industrial America and his celebrated biography of Abraham Lincoln.
-
E.
James Wright
James Wright was the last British royal governor of Georgia, known for his strong Loyalist stance and efforts to maintain British control during the American Revolutionary period.
- 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.