Triple

T1315907
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Warmth of Other Suns E28101 entity
Predicate centralFigure P1183 FINISHED
Object Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
Robert Joseph Pershing Foster was an African American physician whose migration from the Jim Crow South to California is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s book *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
E184722 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: Robert Joseph Pershing Foster | Statement: [The Warmth of Other Suns, centralFigure, Robert Joseph Pershing Foster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
Context triple: [The Warmth of Other Suns, centralFigure, Robert Joseph Pershing Foster]
  • A. William Tilden Blodgett
    William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • B. John Foster Archbold
    John Foster Archbold was the son of American oil magnate and Standard Oil executive John Dustin Archbold.
  • C. Charles Allerton Coolidge
    Charles Allerton Coolidge was a prominent American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his influential role in the firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge and for helping shape major institutional and civic buildings in the United States.
  • D. Peter Hardeman Burnett
    Peter Hardeman Burnett was an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected civilian governor of California after it gained statehood in 1850.
  • E. Harry Fielding Reid
    Harry Fielding Reid was an American geophysicist best known for formulating the elastic rebound theory that explains the mechanics of earthquakes.
  • 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: Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
Triple: [The Warmth of Other Suns, centralFigure, Robert Joseph Pershing Foster]
Generated description
Robert Joseph Pershing Foster was an African American physician whose migration from the Jim Crow South to California is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s book *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
Target entity description: Robert Joseph Pershing Foster was an African American physician whose migration from the Jim Crow South to California is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s book *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
  • A. William Tilden Blodgett
    William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • B. John Foster Archbold
    John Foster Archbold was the son of American oil magnate and Standard Oil executive John Dustin Archbold.
  • C. Charles Allerton Coolidge
    Charles Allerton Coolidge was a prominent American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his influential role in the firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge and for helping shape major institutional and civic buildings in the United States.
  • D. Peter Hardeman Burnett
    Peter Hardeman Burnett was an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected civilian governor of California after it gained statehood in 1850.
  • E. Harry Fielding Reid
    Harry Fielding Reid was an American geophysicist best known for formulating the elastic rebound theory that explains the mechanics of earthquakes.
  • 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_69a498532c3481909223b74af2e578df completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c173a72481909a820d6da6ef9e69 completed March 1, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad58a6e0088190b35258a6accb0440 completed March 8, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad5a2d88648190aa22744e4d9ac9d2 completed March 8, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad5ad5f50c81908541eb94bb1236b6 completed March 8, 2026, 11:17 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:55 p.m.