Triple

T11029146
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject By the Way, Meet Vera Stark E260712 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Vera Stark
Vera Stark is the fictional African American maid-turned-actress at the center of Lynn Nottage’s play "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark," which explores race, representation, and Hollywood’s treatment of Black performers across decades.
E899786 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: Vera Stark | Statement: [By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, mainCharacter, Vera Stark]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vera Stark
Context triple: [By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, mainCharacter, Vera Stark]
  • A. Dorothy Stine
    Dorothy Stine was the first wife of English actor Boris Karloff, best known for his iconic roles in classic horror films.
  • B. Vera Matson
    Vera Matson was an American lyricist best known for being credited as a co-writer on several Elvis Presley songs in the 1950s.
  • C. Vera Webster
    Vera Webster is a villainous character in the film "Superman III," known as the ambitious and ruthless sister of industrialist Ross Webster who becomes partially transformed into a cyborg.
  • D. Ruth Ellsworth
    Ruth Ellsworth is a composer known for creating the musical score for the game Crossfire.
  • E. Vivian Burnett
    Vivian Burnett was the son of British-American novelist Frances Hodgson Burnett, known primarily in relation to his mother's life and work.
  • 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: Vera Stark
Triple: [By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, mainCharacter, Vera Stark]
Generated description
Vera Stark is the fictional African American maid-turned-actress at the center of Lynn Nottage’s play "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark," which explores race, representation, and Hollywood’s treatment of Black performers across decades.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vera Stark
Target entity description: Vera Stark is the fictional African American maid-turned-actress at the center of Lynn Nottage’s play "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark," which explores race, representation, and Hollywood’s treatment of Black performers across decades.
  • A. Dorothy Stine
    Dorothy Stine was the first wife of English actor Boris Karloff, best known for his iconic roles in classic horror films.
  • B. Vera Matson
    Vera Matson was an American lyricist best known for being credited as a co-writer on several Elvis Presley songs in the 1950s.
  • C. Vera Webster
    Vera Webster is a villainous character in the film "Superman III," known as the ambitious and ruthless sister of industrialist Ross Webster who becomes partially transformed into a cyborg.
  • D. Ruth Ellsworth
    Ruth Ellsworth is a composer known for creating the musical score for the game Crossfire.
  • E. Vivian Burnett
    Vivian Burnett was the son of British-American novelist Frances Hodgson Burnett, known primarily in relation to his mother's life and work.
  • 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_69d6aa979bdc8190bf0e79104cc098c1 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d797d2feb881909a5684721e8b0d9c completed April 9, 2026, 12:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3753451e08190bc42ab99d01926f9 completed April 18, 2026, 12:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e37ab93e0881909d98f96073a55ae8 completed April 18, 2026, 12:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e37c97b34081908b274ff52a12d450 completed April 18, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:25 p.m.