Triple

T3892458
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ralph Ellison E88090 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Shadow and Act
Shadow and Act is a collection of essays by Ralph Ellison that explores African American culture, literature, and identity in mid-20th-century America.
E397489 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: Shadow and Act | Statement: [Ralph Ellison, notableWork, Shadow and Act]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shadow and Act
Context triple: [Ralph Ellison, notableWork, Shadow and Act]
  • A. Armchair Theatre
    Armchair Theatre was a pioneering British television drama anthology series that became highly influential in the development of modern TV drama.
  • B. The Show of Shows
    The Show of Shows is a 1929 Warner Bros. all-star revue film from the early sound era, featuring numerous studio contract players in musical and comedy sketches.
  • C. Spotlighters Theatre
    Spotlighters Theatre is an intimate, long-running community theater in Baltimore known for its small in-the-round stage and diverse lineup of plays and musicals.
  • D. Beyond the Fringe
    Beyond the Fringe is a groundbreaking early-1960s British satirical stage revue that helped launch the modern era of sketch comedy and satire.
  • E. Bored to Death
    Bored to Death is an American comedy television series that blends noir detective tropes with offbeat humor, following a struggling writer who moonlights as an unlicensed private investigator in Brooklyn.
  • 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: Shadow and Act
Triple: [Ralph Ellison, notableWork, Shadow and Act]
Generated description
Shadow and Act is a collection of essays by Ralph Ellison that explores African American culture, literature, and identity in mid-20th-century America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shadow and Act
Target entity description: Shadow and Act is a collection of essays by Ralph Ellison that explores African American culture, literature, and identity in mid-20th-century America.
  • A. Armchair Theatre
    Armchair Theatre was a pioneering British television drama anthology series that became highly influential in the development of modern TV drama.
  • B. The Show of Shows
    The Show of Shows is a 1929 Warner Bros. all-star revue film from the early sound era, featuring numerous studio contract players in musical and comedy sketches.
  • C. Spotlighters Theatre
    Spotlighters Theatre is an intimate, long-running community theater in Baltimore known for its small in-the-round stage and diverse lineup of plays and musicals.
  • D. Beyond the Fringe
    Beyond the Fringe is a groundbreaking early-1960s British satirical stage revue that helped launch the modern era of sketch comedy and satire.
  • E. Bored to Death
    Bored to Death is an American comedy television series that blends noir detective tropes with offbeat humor, following a struggling writer who moonlights as an unlicensed private investigator in Brooklyn.
  • 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_69aed9466d548190939f5217a23ed4ac completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeecb237748190a4d41b76e8efd0ba completed March 9, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b51c9484f08190b47eec550e521da5 completed March 14, 2026, 8:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b51d9295908190a282d9b3f1cbb34c completed March 14, 2026, 8:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b51e1d6d988190b2c1a3f42964aaaa completed March 14, 2026, 8:36 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:21 p.m.