Triple

T4510019
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gloria Matthews E102027 entity
Predicate creator P184 FINISHED
Object Terry McMillan
Terry McMillan is an American novelist best known for her witty, emotionally resonant portrayals of contemporary African-American women in bestselling books such as "Waiting to Exhale" and "How Stella Got Her Groove Back."
E26440 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: Terry McMillan | Statement: [Gloria Matthews, creator, Terry McMillan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Terry McMillan
Context triple: [Gloria Matthews, creator, Terry McMillan]
  • A. Terry McMillan
    Terry McMillan is an American novelist best known for her witty, emotionally resonant portrayals of contemporary Black women’s lives and relationships in bestselling books such as "Waiting to Exhale" and "How Stella Got Her Groove Back."
  • B. Patricia Rooney
    Patricia Rooney is a member of the prominent Rooney family, known for its long-standing ownership and leadership of the Pittsburgh Steelers NFL franchise.
  • C. Lee Smith
    Lee Smith is an acclaimed Australian film editor known for his work on major films such as Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy and Dunkirk.
  • D. Kathryn Stockett
    Kathryn Stockett is an American novelist best known for her bestselling debut novel "The Help," which explores race relations and domestic life in 1960s Mississippi.
  • E. Catherine Burks-Brooks
    Catherine Burks-Brooks was a civil rights activist best known for her courageous role as a Freedom Rider challenging racial segregation in the American South during the early 1960s.
  • 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: Terry McMillan
Triple: [Gloria Matthews, creator, Terry McMillan]
Generated description
Terry McMillan is an American novelist best known for her witty, emotionally resonant portrayals of contemporary African-American women in bestselling books such as "Waiting to Exhale" and "How Stella Got Her Groove Back."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Terry McMillan
Target entity description: Terry McMillan is an American novelist best known for her witty, emotionally resonant portrayals of contemporary African-American women in bestselling books such as "Waiting to Exhale" and "How Stella Got Her Groove Back."
  • A. Terry McMillan chosen
    Terry McMillan is an American novelist best known for her witty, emotionally resonant portrayals of contemporary Black women’s lives and relationships in bestselling books such as "Waiting to Exhale" and "How Stella Got Her Groove Back."
  • B. Patricia Rooney
    Patricia Rooney is a member of the prominent Rooney family, known for its long-standing ownership and leadership of the Pittsburgh Steelers NFL franchise.
  • C. Lee Smith
    Lee Smith is an acclaimed Australian film editor known for his work on major films such as Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy and Dunkirk.
  • D. Kathryn Stockett
    Kathryn Stockett is an American novelist best known for her bestselling debut novel "The Help," which explores race relations and domestic life in 1960s Mississippi.
  • E. Catherine Burks-Brooks
    Catherine Burks-Brooks was a civil rights activist best known for her courageous role as a Freedom Rider challenging racial segregation in the American South during the early 1960s.
  • F. None of above.

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_69bd43d6251c81909deecce3e6e9d69c completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd571138b88190b68bbfc4300aaf9d completed March 20, 2026, 2:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bd7f814dd081908b07ce0c2abee3c1 completed March 20, 2026, 5:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bd84bae7148190ae201ea5257dd43e completed March 20, 2026, 5:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bd857181e4819086b7d0b493fbb9a3 completed March 20, 2026, 5:35 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:01 p.m.