Triple
T1230939
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Terry McMillan |
E26440
|
entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Terry McMillan |
E26440
|
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: Terry McMillan | Statement: [Terry McMillan, name, Terry McMillan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Terry McMillan Context triple: [Terry McMillan, name, Terry McMillan]
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A.
Terry McMillan
chosen
Terry McMillan is an American novelist best known for her witty, emotionally resonant portrayals of contemporary Black women’s lives and relationships in bestselling books such as "Waiting to Exhale" and "How Stella Got Her Groove Back."
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B.
Lee Smith
Lee Smith is an acclaimed Australian film editor known for his work on major films such as Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy and Dunkirk.
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C.
Catherine Burks-Brooks
Catherine Burks-Brooks was a civil rights activist best known for her courageous role as a Freedom Rider challenging racial segregation in the American South during the early 1960s.
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D.
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.
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E.
Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kidd is an American author best known for her bestselling novel "The Secret Life of Bees," which explores themes of race, motherhood, and female empowerment in the American South.
- 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_69a4948571c88190a9191e451e6035fd |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4be585674819099218b19ca9e7c66 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:31 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac93bf346081908a36a25b6616009a |
completed | March 7, 2026, 9:08 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.