Triple

T863537
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Song of Solomon E18649 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Ruth Foster Dead
Ruth Foster Dead is a central character in Toni Morrison's novel "Song of Solomon," portrayed as Milkman's emotionally repressed and socially constrained mother whose troubled marriage and family history shape much of the story's domestic tension.
E101926 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: Ruth Foster Dead | Statement: [Song of Solomon, character, Ruth Foster Dead]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ruth Foster Dead
Context triple: [Song of Solomon, character, Ruth Foster Dead]
  • A. Ann Fleming
    Ann Fleming was a British socialite and literary hostess best known as the wife of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and for her influential role in mid-20th-century London cultural circles.
  • B. Nancy Gates
    Nancy Gates was an American film and television actress active from the 1940s through the 1960s, known for her roles in dramas, film noirs, and romantic comedies.
  • C. Ruth Rose
    Ruth Rose was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1933 monster film "King Kong."
  • D. Dolores H. Russ
    Dolores H. Russ was an American philanthropist and co-namesake of the prestigious Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize in engineering.
  • E. Mary Grace Slattery
    Mary Grace Slattery was the first wife of American playwright Arthur Miller, whom he married before achieving his major theatrical success.
  • 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: Ruth Foster Dead
Triple: [Song of Solomon, character, Ruth Foster Dead]
Generated description
Ruth Foster Dead is a central character in Toni Morrison's novel "Song of Solomon," portrayed as Milkman's emotionally repressed and socially constrained mother whose troubled marriage and family history shape much of the story's domestic tension.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ruth Foster Dead
Target entity description: Ruth Foster Dead is a central character in Toni Morrison's novel "Song of Solomon," portrayed as Milkman's emotionally repressed and socially constrained mother whose troubled marriage and family history shape much of the story's domestic tension.
  • A. Ann Fleming
    Ann Fleming was a British socialite and literary hostess best known as the wife of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and for her influential role in mid-20th-century London cultural circles.
  • B. Nancy Gates
    Nancy Gates was an American film and television actress active from the 1940s through the 1960s, known for her roles in dramas, film noirs, and romantic comedies.
  • C. Ruth Rose
    Ruth Rose was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1933 monster film "King Kong."
  • D. Dolores H. Russ
    Dolores H. Russ was an American philanthropist and co-namesake of the prestigious Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize in engineering.
  • E. Mary Grace Slattery
    Mary Grace Slattery was the first wife of American playwright Arthur Miller, whom he married before achieving his major theatrical success.
  • 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_69a4938ce8688190a24bdfef82ba7d21 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac6956488190a5644cdd5b55684f completed March 1, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7a3c5c15c8190a91eb3746007ebf5 completed March 4, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7a613db0881908c14569257c53bb0 completed March 4, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7a66cc1108190a072cc7d9be2756c completed March 4, 2026, 3:26 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.