Triple

T9132039
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ma Rainey E219108 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Pa Rainey
Pa Rainey was the husband of pioneering blues singer Ma Rainey and a figure associated with the early development of the blues scene in the American South.
E782549 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: Pa Rainey | Statement: [Ma Rainey, spouse, Pa Rainey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pa Rainey
Context triple: [Ma Rainey, spouse, Pa Rainey]
  • A. Ma Rainey
    Ma Rainey was a pioneering early 20th-century American blues singer, often called the "Mother of the Blues," known for her powerful voice and influential recordings.
  • B. Bessie Smith
    Bessie Smith was a pioneering American blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, celebrated as the "Empress of the Blues" for her powerful voice and influential recordings.
  • C. Bessie Springs Smith
    Bessie Springs Smith was the wife of prominent American architect Stanford White and a member of New York society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Mamie Smith
    Mamie Smith was an American blues singer and vaudeville performer credited with making the first recorded blues vocal by an African American artist, helping to launch the classic female blues era.
  • E. Ethel Waters
    Ethel Waters was a pioneering American blues, jazz, and gospel singer and actress who broke racial barriers on stage, in film, and on radio during the early to mid-20th century.
  • 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: Pa Rainey
Triple: [Ma Rainey, spouse, Pa Rainey]
Generated description
Pa Rainey was the husband of pioneering blues singer Ma Rainey and a figure associated with the early development of the blues scene in the American South.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pa Rainey
Target entity description: Pa Rainey was the husband of pioneering blues singer Ma Rainey and a figure associated with the early development of the blues scene in the American South.
  • A. Ma Rainey
    Ma Rainey was a pioneering early 20th-century American blues singer, often called the "Mother of the Blues," known for her powerful voice and influential recordings.
  • B. Bessie Smith
    Bessie Smith was a pioneering American blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, celebrated as the "Empress of the Blues" for her powerful voice and influential recordings.
  • C. Bessie Springs Smith
    Bessie Springs Smith was the wife of prominent American architect Stanford White and a member of New York society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Mamie Smith
    Mamie Smith was an American blues singer and vaudeville performer credited with making the first recorded blues vocal by an African American artist, helping to launch the classic female blues era.
  • E. Ethel Waters
    Ethel Waters was a pioneering American blues, jazz, and gospel singer and actress who broke racial barriers on stage, in film, and on radio during the early to mid-20th century.
  • 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_69ca83debfc0819095800583e97ab10f completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cca8db7d808190bd22b0e5a6f9c285 completed April 1, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d05452acb481909fcf5f826caa6ae6 completed April 3, 2026, 11:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0563ed4e0819096fb78c0c9e2d63d completed April 4, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d056d8775c8190813516cdd2341ed6 completed April 4, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:18 p.m.