Triple

T4968760
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Florens’s mother E111591 entity
Predicate appearsIn P795 FINISHED
Object A Mercy E20114 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: A Mercy | Statement: [Florens’s mother, appearsIn, A Mercy]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Mercy
Context triple: [Florens’s mother, appearsIn, A Mercy]
  • A. A Mercy chosen
    "A Mercy" is a historical novel by Toni Morrison that explores themes of slavery, motherhood, and identity in 17th-century America through the intertwined lives of several women.
  • B. Book of Negroes
    The Book of Negroes is a historical ledger compiled by the British in 1783 that records the names and details of thousands of Black Loyalists who were evacuated from the United States to British territories after the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. Middle Passage
    The Middle Passage was the brutal transatlantic sea journey during which enslaved Africans were forcibly transported under horrific conditions to the Americas.
  • D. The Underground Railroad
    The Underground Railroad is a historical drama television series, based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, that reimagines the network that helped enslaved people escape as a literal subterranean train system.
  • E. Sula
    Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69bd441a0eb481908050fa4273b19eae elicitation completed
NER batch_69bd7210c8f081908e36595a12d07f64 ner completed
NED1 batch_69beba546a1081909fe082663ad5e238 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:32 p.m.