Triple

T12301074
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lillian Smith Book Award E293221 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Lillian Smith
Lillian Smith was an American writer and civil rights advocate best known for her outspoken criticism of racial segregation in the mid-20th-century South.
E983614 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: Lillian Smith | Statement: [Lillian Smith Book Award, namedAfter, Lillian Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lillian Smith
Context triple: [Lillian Smith Book Award, namedAfter, Lillian Smith]
  • A. Lillian Smith Knox
    Lillian Smith Knox was the wife of American politician and U.S. Secretary of State Philander C. Knox and a prominent figure in Washington, D.C. social circles in the early 20th century.
  • B. Alice Walker
    Alice Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Color Purple" and her contributions to Black feminist literature.
  • C. Ellen Glasgow
    Ellen Glasgow was an American novelist known for her realistic depictions of life in the American South and for winning the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "In This Our Life."
  • D. Daisy Bates
    Daisy Bates was a prominent civil rights activist and journalist who played a key leadership role in guiding and supporting the Little Rock Nine during the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
  • E. Zora Neale Hurston
    Zora Neale Hurston was an influential African American author, anthropologist, and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
  • 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: Lillian Smith
Triple: [Lillian Smith Book Award, namedAfter, Lillian Smith]
Generated description
Lillian Smith was an American writer and civil rights advocate best known for her outspoken criticism of racial segregation in the mid-20th-century South.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lillian Smith
Target entity description: Lillian Smith was an American writer and civil rights advocate best known for her outspoken criticism of racial segregation in the mid-20th-century South.
  • A. Lillian Smith Knox
    Lillian Smith Knox was the wife of American politician and U.S. Secretary of State Philander C. Knox and a prominent figure in Washington, D.C. social circles in the early 20th century.
  • B. Alice Walker
    Alice Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Color Purple" and her contributions to Black feminist literature.
  • C. Ellen Glasgow
    Ellen Glasgow was an American novelist known for her realistic depictions of life in the American South and for winning the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "In This Our Life."
  • D. Daisy Bates
    Daisy Bates was a prominent civil rights activist and journalist who played a key leadership role in guiding and supporting the Little Rock Nine during the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
  • E. Zora Neale Hurston
    Zora Neale Hurston was an influential African American author, anthropologist, and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
  • 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_69d6ab6a2b50819082f6aedd32ed608a completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d93edb59908190bcef9d0cdc11081f completed April 10, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f63eedd7a4819082f2049dcfff6401 completed May 2, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6400fe9888190ae8244ccc8e8bc39 completed May 2, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f64168d23881908daee7d7cba2160d completed May 2, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:53 p.m.