Triple

T6770894
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Katherine Dunham E155038 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey was a pioneering African American choreographer and founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, renowned for blending modern dance, ballet, jazz, and African diasporic traditions to celebrate Black cultural expression.
E620965 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: Alvin Ailey | Statement: [Katherine Dunham, influenced, Alvin Ailey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alvin Ailey
Context triple: [Katherine Dunham, influenced, Alvin Ailey]
  • A. Pearl Primus
    Pearl Primus was a pioneering Trinidadian-American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist renowned for bringing African and African American dance traditions to the concert stage and using her work to confront racial injustice.
  • B. Katherine Dunham
    Katherine Dunham was a pioneering African American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist who revolutionized modern dance by integrating Caribbean and African diasporic movement into concert performance and founded one of the first Black modern dance companies in the United States.
  • C. Duwayne Dunham
    Duwayne Dunham is an American film editor and director known for his work on major films and television series, including contributions to the Star Wars franchise.
  • D. Martha Graham
    Martha Graham was a pioneering American modern dancer and choreographer whose innovative techniques and emotionally driven works revolutionized 20th-century dance.
  • E. José Limón
    José Limón was a pioneering Mexican-American modern dancer and choreographer renowned for his powerful, humanistic works and for founding the influential Limón Dance Company.
  • 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: Alvin Ailey
Triple: [Katherine Dunham, influenced, Alvin Ailey]
Generated description
Alvin Ailey was a pioneering African American choreographer and founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, renowned for blending modern dance, ballet, jazz, and African diasporic traditions to celebrate Black cultural expression.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alvin Ailey
Target entity description: Alvin Ailey was a pioneering African American choreographer and founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, renowned for blending modern dance, ballet, jazz, and African diasporic traditions to celebrate Black cultural expression.
  • A. Pearl Primus
    Pearl Primus was a pioneering Trinidadian-American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist renowned for bringing African and African American dance traditions to the concert stage and using her work to confront racial injustice.
  • B. Katherine Dunham
    Katherine Dunham was a pioneering African American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist who revolutionized modern dance by integrating Caribbean and African diasporic movement into concert performance and founded one of the first Black modern dance companies in the United States.
  • C. Duwayne Dunham
    Duwayne Dunham is an American film editor and director known for his work on major films and television series, including contributions to the Star Wars franchise.
  • D. Martha Graham
    Martha Graham was a pioneering American modern dancer and choreographer whose innovative techniques and emotionally driven works revolutionized 20th-century dance.
  • E. José Limón
    José Limón was a pioneering Mexican-American modern dancer and choreographer renowned for his powerful, humanistic works and for founding the influential Limón Dance Company.
  • 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_69c68812ef7c819099369f51febb725c completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d2496fa08190895d8b625fb0d699 completed March 27, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c723c67dc08190b21138488c80733a completed March 28, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c724691b8081908975aec09e25dec2 completed March 28, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c724bbe8f88190b2abe734b267aea7 completed March 28, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:13 p.m.