Triple

T6270775
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McMillan E140527 entity
Predicate usedBy P260 FINISHED
Object Tracie McMillan
Tracie McMillan is an American journalist and author best known for her investigative work on food, poverty, and social inequality, including the book "The American Way of Eating."
E579159 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: Tracie McMillan | Statement: [McMillan, usedBy, Tracie McMillan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tracie McMillan
Context triple: [McMillan, usedBy, Tracie McMillan]
  • A. Tressie McMillan Cottom
    Tressie McMillan Cottom is an American sociologist, writer, and public intellectual known for her work on race, inequality, and higher education.
  • B. Margo Jefferson
    Margo Jefferson is an American cultural critic and author renowned for her incisive writing on race, class, and the arts.
  • C. Keisha N. Blain
    Keisha N. Blain is an American historian and author known for her influential scholarship on African American history, Black internationalism, and civil rights movements.
  • D. Barbara Franklin
    Barbara Franklin is an American business executive and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce known for advancing women’s roles in government and corporate leadership.
  • E. Sheree J. Wilson
    Sheree J. Wilson is an American actress best known for her role as Alex Cahill on the television series "Walker, Texas Ranger."
  • 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: Tracie McMillan
Triple: [McMillan, usedBy, Tracie McMillan]
Generated description
Tracie McMillan is an American journalist and author best known for her investigative work on food, poverty, and social inequality, including the book "The American Way of Eating."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tracie McMillan
Target entity description: Tracie McMillan is an American journalist and author best known for her investigative work on food, poverty, and social inequality, including the book "The American Way of Eating."
  • A. Tressie McMillan Cottom
    Tressie McMillan Cottom is an American sociologist, writer, and public intellectual known for her work on race, inequality, and higher education.
  • B. Margo Jefferson
    Margo Jefferson is an American cultural critic and author renowned for her incisive writing on race, class, and the arts.
  • C. Keisha N. Blain
    Keisha N. Blain is an American historian and author known for her influential scholarship on African American history, Black internationalism, and civil rights movements.
  • D. Barbara Franklin
    Barbara Franklin is an American business executive and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce known for advancing women’s roles in government and corporate leadership.
  • E. Sheree J. Wilson
    Sheree J. Wilson is an American actress best known for her role as Alex Cahill on the television series "Walker, Texas Ranger."
  • 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_69c008cabc4081909723e2547c9d6cc0 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c063bb340c8190ab81b249cefa91ca completed March 22, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c2446629248190945f0f4f4a103bbd completed March 24, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c246b507a08190ab5423c54e2b0eb5 completed March 24, 2026, 8:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c2471ce99c8190af2305937dfacc9c completed March 24, 2026, 8:11 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:25 p.m.