Triple
T1147544
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | National Humanities Medal |
E23599
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableRecipient |
P108
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
E68871
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Statement: [National Humanities Medal, notableRecipient, Henry Louis Gates Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry Louis Gates Jr. Context triple: [National Humanities Medal, notableRecipient, Henry Louis Gates Jr.]
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A.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
chosen
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is an influential American literary critic, scholar of African American studies, and public intellectual known for his work on Black literature, cultural history, and genealogy.
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B.
James Ingo Freed
James Ingo Freed was a prominent American architect known for major public works such as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Air Force Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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C.
Florence King
Florence King was an American novelist, essayist, and columnist known for her sharp wit, conservative commentary, and acerbic reflections on Southern culture and gender.
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D.
Reginald C. Lewis
Reginald C. Lewis was an American professional basketball player who starred for the Boston Celtics in the late 1980s and early 1990s before his career was tragically cut short by his sudden death.
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E.
True W. Williams
True W. Williams was an illustrator known for providing the original illustrations for Mark Twain’s semi-autobiographical travel book "Roughing It."
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a493f0d32c8190ac74bad3c87f2641 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4bc7041248190893e4c655dbd0604 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:23 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac5eb3ec3881908c8cb39b422fcc71 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:21 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.