Triple

T14049955
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cap'n Andy Hawks E338059 entity
Predicate firstAppearance P795 FINISHED
Object novel "Show Boat" (1926)
The 1926 novel "Show Boat" by Edna Ferber is a landmark American work that follows the lives and romances of performers and workers on a Mississippi River showboat, inspiring the famous stage musical adaptation.
E67331 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: novel "Show Boat" (1926) | Statement: [Cap'n Andy Hawks, firstAppearance, novel "Show Boat" (1926)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: novel "Show Boat" (1926)
Context triple: [Cap'n Andy Hawks, firstAppearance, novel "Show Boat" (1926)]
  • A. Show Boat
    Show Boat is a landmark American musical, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II, that broke new ground by integrating serious themes and complex characters into its storytelling.
  • B. Porgy (novel)
    Porgy (novel) is a 1925 work by DuBose Heyward that portrays the lives of African American residents in Charleston’s Catfish Row and later served as the basis for the opera Porgy and Bess.
  • C. Porgy: A Play in Four Acts
    Porgy: A Play in Four Acts is a 1927 stage adaptation of DuBose Heyward’s novel "Porgy," best known as the dramatic work that later inspired the Gershwin opera "Porgy and Bess."
  • D. Porgy and Bess
    Porgy and Bess is a landmark American opera by George Gershwin that blends classical music, jazz, and blues to depict African American life in Charleston’s Catfish Row.
  • E. Ragtime
    Ragtime is a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical that intertwines the stories of three families in early 20th-century America to explore themes of race, class, and social change.
  • 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: novel "Show Boat" (1926)
Triple: [Cap'n Andy Hawks, firstAppearance, novel "Show Boat" (1926)]
Generated description
The 1926 novel "Show Boat" by Edna Ferber is a landmark American work that follows the lives and romances of performers and workers on a Mississippi River showboat, inspiring the famous stage musical adaptation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: novel "Show Boat" (1926)
Target entity description: The 1926 novel "Show Boat" by Edna Ferber is a landmark American work that follows the lives and romances of performers and workers on a Mississippi River showboat, inspiring the famous stage musical adaptation.
  • A. Show Boat chosen
    Show Boat is a landmark American musical, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II, that broke new ground by integrating serious themes and complex characters into its storytelling.
  • B. Porgy (novel)
    Porgy (novel) is a 1925 work by DuBose Heyward that portrays the lives of African American residents in Charleston’s Catfish Row and later served as the basis for the opera Porgy and Bess.
  • C. Porgy: A Play in Four Acts
    Porgy: A Play in Four Acts is a 1927 stage adaptation of DuBose Heyward’s novel "Porgy," best known as the dramatic work that later inspired the Gershwin opera "Porgy and Bess."
  • D. Porgy and Bess
    Porgy and Bess is a landmark American opera by George Gershwin that blends classical music, jazz, and blues to depict African American life in Charleston’s Catfish Row.
  • E. Ragtime
    Ragtime is a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical that intertwines the stories of three families in early 20th-century America to explore themes of race, class, and social change.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d81c664e48819088cbd8f433aeffe5 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de3c8a518081908ad030ba48b7b946 completed April 14, 2026, 1:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fbc345a4c081908f803cc53b4f8bca completed May 6, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fc4654f96c8190a4fa6a12bdfbec33 completed May 7, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fc4777e13c8190a705d44d20ca2ca5 completed May 7, 2026, 8:04 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:20 p.m.