Triple
T12301101
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lillian Smith Book Award |
E293221
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWinner |
P2766
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Taylor Branch |
E487330
|
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: Taylor Branch | Statement: [Lillian Smith Book Award, notableWinner, Taylor Branch]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Taylor Branch Context triple: [Lillian Smith Book Award, notableWinner, Taylor Branch]
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A.
Taylor Branch
chosen
Taylor Branch is an American historian and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning trilogy on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.
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B.
John McMillian
John McMillian is a Louisiana state prisoner whose excessive-force claim against corrections officers led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Hudson v. McMillian, which clarified Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
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C.
Hampton Sides
Hampton Sides is an American historian and bestselling narrative nonfiction author known for his gripping accounts of exploration, war, and adventure.
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D.
C. Vann Woodward
C. Vann Woodward was a prominent American historian best known for his influential works on the history of the American South and race relations in the United States.
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E.
John Hope Franklin
John Hope Franklin was a pioneering American historian and civil rights advocate renowned for his groundbreaking scholarship on African American history and race in the United States.
- 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_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_69f61e7d757881908ac6af2b70a6dafe |
completed | May 2, 2026, 3:55 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:53 p.m.