Triple

T8842894
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Underground Railroad E210430 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Cora Randall
Cora Randall is the enslaved young woman who becomes the central protagonist of Colson Whitehead’s novel "The Underground Railroad," embarking on a perilous journey to escape bondage through a reimagined subterranean rail system.
E762942 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: Cora Randall | Statement: [The Underground Railroad, mainCharacter, Cora Randall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cora Randall
Context triple: [The Underground Railroad, mainCharacter, Cora Randall]
  • A. Cora Hudson
    Cora Hudson is a supporting character on the sitcom "Mork & Mindy," known as Mindy’s warm, down-to-earth grandmother.
  • B. Cora Stewart
    Cora Stewart is the alternate name of Cora Crane, an American writer and common-law wife of author Stephen Crane, known for her journalism and bohemian lifestyle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Cora Simmons
    Cora Simmons is a devout, good-natured Christian woman and the often exasperated daughter of the outspoken matriarch Madea in Tyler Perry’s film and stage universe.
  • D. Cora Smith
    Cora Smith is the seductive and scheming femme fatale who conspires with her lover to murder her husband in the classic film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).
  • E. Cora Walton
    Cora Walton, better known as Koko Taylor, was a powerhouse American blues singer celebrated as the "Queen of the Blues" for her raw, gritty vocals and influential Chicago blues recordings.
  • 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: Cora Randall
Triple: [The Underground Railroad, mainCharacter, Cora Randall]
Generated description
Cora Randall is the enslaved young woman who becomes the central protagonist of Colson Whitehead’s novel "The Underground Railroad," embarking on a perilous journey to escape bondage through a reimagined subterranean rail system.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cora Randall
Target entity description: Cora Randall is the enslaved young woman who becomes the central protagonist of Colson Whitehead’s novel "The Underground Railroad," embarking on a perilous journey to escape bondage through a reimagined subterranean rail system.
  • A. Cora Hudson
    Cora Hudson is a supporting character on the sitcom "Mork & Mindy," known as Mindy’s warm, down-to-earth grandmother.
  • B. Cora Stewart
    Cora Stewart is the alternate name of Cora Crane, an American writer and common-law wife of author Stephen Crane, known for her journalism and bohemian lifestyle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Cora Simmons
    Cora Simmons is a devout, good-natured Christian woman and the often exasperated daughter of the outspoken matriarch Madea in Tyler Perry’s film and stage universe.
  • D. Cora Smith
    Cora Smith is the seductive and scheming femme fatale who conspires with her lover to murder her husband in the classic film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).
  • E. Cora Walton
    Cora Walton, better known as Koko Taylor, was a powerhouse American blues singer celebrated as the "Queen of the Blues" for her raw, gritty vocals and influential Chicago blues recordings.
  • 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_69ca838967bc8190b46c3c80a2887ea4 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc608946cc8190bed3c340ba303b9c completed April 1, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfa0721430819091abe8c13a745725 completed April 3, 2026, 11:11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfa14f0f3c8190bf7081e51410a491 completed April 3, 2026, 11:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfa28589708190b8fc32f4944d0a37 completed April 3, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:48 p.m.