Triple
T206041
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Waiting to Exhale |
E4612
|
entity |
| Predicate | producer |
P490
|
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: [Waiting to Exhale, producer, Terry McMillan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Terry McMillan Context triple: [Waiting to Exhale, producer, 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.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was a renowned American novelist, essayist, and professor celebrated for her powerful explorations of Black American life and identity in works such as "Beloved" and "Song of Solomon."
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C.
Fannie Flagg
Fannie Flagg is an American author, actress, and comedian best known for her novel "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe," which was adapted into the popular film "Fried Green Tomatoes."
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D.
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."
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E.
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is an American writer, professor, and cultural critic known for her influential essays and books on feminism, race, body image, and pop culture, including the bestselling memoir "Hunger" and essay collection "Bad Feminist."
- 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_69a25737567c81908f9c505300239181 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a25c04e42481909e957cb34dc02731 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 3:07 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a32f29799c8190a445a231006bf436 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 6:08 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:51 a.m.