Triple

T845875
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Phillips Collection E18273 entity
Predicate hasWorkBy P12366 FINISHED
Object Mickalene Thomas
Mickalene Thomas is an American contemporary artist known for her vibrant, rhinestone-studded paintings and photographs that explore Black female identity, beauty, and power.
E113400 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: Mickalene Thomas | Statement: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Mickalene Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mickalene Thomas
Context triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Mickalene Thomas]
  • A. Kara Walker
    Kara Walker is an American contemporary artist renowned for her provocative black cut-paper silhouettes and installations that explore race, gender, sexuality, and the legacy of slavery in the United States.
  • B. Titus Kaphar
    Titus Kaphar is a contemporary American artist known for reimagining and altering historical paintings to highlight overlooked Black figures and critique the narratives of Western art history.
  • C. Glenn Ligon
    Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist known for his text-based paintings and installations that explore race, language, identity, and the politics of representation.
  • D. Kehinde Wiley
    Kehinde Wiley is a contemporary American artist renowned for his vibrant, large-scale portraits of Black subjects that reimagine and subvert traditional European portraiture.
  • E. Alma Thomas
    Alma Thomas was an influential African American abstract painter known for her vibrant, mosaic-like color field compositions and her pioneering role as a Black woman artist in the mid-20th-century American art world.
  • 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: Mickalene Thomas
Triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Mickalene Thomas]
Generated description
Mickalene Thomas is an American contemporary artist known for her vibrant, rhinestone-studded paintings and photographs that explore Black female identity, beauty, and power.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mickalene Thomas
Target entity description: Mickalene Thomas is an American contemporary artist known for her vibrant, rhinestone-studded paintings and photographs that explore Black female identity, beauty, and power.
  • A. Kara Walker
    Kara Walker is an American contemporary artist renowned for her provocative black cut-paper silhouettes and installations that explore race, gender, sexuality, and the legacy of slavery in the United States.
  • B. Titus Kaphar
    Titus Kaphar is a contemporary American artist known for reimagining and altering historical paintings to highlight overlooked Black figures and critique the narratives of Western art history.
  • C. Glenn Ligon
    Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist known for his text-based paintings and installations that explore race, language, identity, and the politics of representation.
  • D. Kehinde Wiley
    Kehinde Wiley is a contemporary American artist renowned for his vibrant, large-scale portraits of Black subjects that reimagine and subvert traditional European portraiture.
  • E. Alma Thomas
    Alma Thomas was an influential African American abstract painter known for her vibrant, mosaic-like color field compositions and her pioneering role as a Black woman artist in the mid-20th-century American art world.
  • 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_69a4938b04208190b82e1df6b572c548 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac0a91e48190b4349ae8bb67fd90 completed March 1, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac11907a988190945e5e5ec8a26ccf completed March 7, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac12f09744819084a8486e157db474 completed March 7, 2026, 11:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac1342004881908b9da2192e1aad3f completed March 7, 2026, noon
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.