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)]
  • 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
  • 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.