Triple

T4269944
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Virginia Samford Theatre E96917 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Virginia Samford
Virginia Samford was a prominent Birmingham, Alabama civic leader and arts patron whose support for local culture and theater led to a major performance venue being named in her honor.
E427101 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: Virginia Samford | Statement: [Virginia Samford Theatre, namedAfter, Virginia Samford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia Samford
Context triple: [Virginia Samford Theatre, namedAfter, Virginia Samford]
  • A. Virginia Cunningham
    Virginia Cunningham is the troubled protagonist of the novel and film "The Snake Pit," whose experiences depict the harsh realities of life inside a mid-20th-century psychiatric institution.
  • B. Lucy Harris
    Lucy Harris is a tragic, working-class woman and love interest in the musical "Jekyll & Hyde," whose relationship with Dr. Jekyll and his alter ego Hyde highlights the story’s themes of duality and moral corruption.
  • C. Susan Holbert McDaniel
    Susan Holbert McDaniel was the mother of pioneering African American actress Hattie McDaniel, the first Black performer to win an Academy Award.
  • D. Shirley Yarbrough
    Shirley Yarbrough was the wife of prominent civil rights leader and presidential adviser Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
  • E. Marion Morehouse
    Marion Morehouse was an American fashion model of the 1920s and 1930s who became closely associated with the modernist literary and artistic circles of her time.
  • 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: Virginia Samford
Triple: [Virginia Samford Theatre, namedAfter, Virginia Samford]
Generated description
Virginia Samford was a prominent Birmingham, Alabama civic leader and arts patron whose support for local culture and theater led to a major performance venue being named in her honor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia Samford
Target entity description: Virginia Samford was a prominent Birmingham, Alabama civic leader and arts patron whose support for local culture and theater led to a major performance venue being named in her honor.
  • A. Virginia Cunningham
    Virginia Cunningham is the troubled protagonist of the novel and film "The Snake Pit," whose experiences depict the harsh realities of life inside a mid-20th-century psychiatric institution.
  • B. Lucy Harris
    Lucy Harris is a tragic, working-class woman and love interest in the musical "Jekyll & Hyde," whose relationship with Dr. Jekyll and his alter ego Hyde highlights the story’s themes of duality and moral corruption.
  • C. Susan Holbert McDaniel
    Susan Holbert McDaniel was the mother of pioneering African American actress Hattie McDaniel, the first Black performer to win an Academy Award.
  • D. Shirley Yarbrough
    Shirley Yarbrough was the wife of prominent civil rights leader and presidential adviser Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
  • E. Marion Morehouse
    Marion Morehouse was an American fashion model of the 1920s and 1930s who became closely associated with the modernist literary and artistic circles of her time.
  • 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_69b34543f06c8190915ebb1a4574ffa9 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b34ffa30c08190913622ffec47d33d completed March 12, 2026, 11:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5b7a456108190afa46344a5ed2118 completed March 14, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5b83759c08190b080565bb1ac8bb4 completed March 14, 2026, 7:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5b8c3fb208190b091da57f7b1f704 completed March 14, 2026, 7:36 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:07 p.m.