Triple

T3892470
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ralph Ellison E88090 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson is an American novelist, essayist, and philosopher best known for his National Book Award–winning novel "Middle Passage" and his explorations of African American experience, history, and Buddhist thought.
E397491 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: Charles Johnson | Statement: [Ralph Ellison, influenced, Charles Johnson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Johnson
Context triple: [Ralph Ellison, influenced, Charles Johnson]
  • A. Rand Brooks
    Rand Brooks was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in classic Hollywood productions such as "Gone with the Wind" and numerous Westerns.
  • B. Paul Brooks
    Paul Brooks is known primarily as the husband of civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks.
  • C. C. K. Robinson
    C. K. Robinson was a 19th-century British architect best known for designing St. Paul’s Cathedral in Kolkata, a prominent example of Indo-Gothic architecture in India.
  • D. Douglas Roberts
    Douglas Roberts is known primarily as one of the sons of American cable television pioneer and Comcast co-founder Ralph J. Roberts.
  • E. Antony Johnston
    Antony Johnston is a British comic book writer and novelist best known for creating the graphic novel "The Coldest City," which was adapted into the film "Atomic Blonde."
  • 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: Charles Johnson
Triple: [Ralph Ellison, influenced, Charles Johnson]
Generated description
Charles Johnson is an American novelist, essayist, and philosopher best known for his National Book Award–winning novel "Middle Passage" and his explorations of African American experience, history, and Buddhist thought.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Johnson
Target entity description: Charles Johnson is an American novelist, essayist, and philosopher best known for his National Book Award–winning novel "Middle Passage" and his explorations of African American experience, history, and Buddhist thought.
  • A. Rand Brooks
    Rand Brooks was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in classic Hollywood productions such as "Gone with the Wind" and numerous Westerns.
  • B. Paul Brooks
    Paul Brooks is known primarily as the husband of civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks.
  • C. C. K. Robinson
    C. K. Robinson was a 19th-century British architect best known for designing St. Paul’s Cathedral in Kolkata, a prominent example of Indo-Gothic architecture in India.
  • D. Douglas Roberts
    Douglas Roberts is known primarily as one of the sons of American cable television pioneer and Comcast co-founder Ralph J. Roberts.
  • E. Antony Johnston
    Antony Johnston is a British comic book writer and novelist best known for creating the graphic novel "The Coldest City," which was adapted into the film "Atomic Blonde."
  • 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.