Triple

T25211677

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Negro Ensemble Company	`E631703`	entity
Predicate	foundedBy	`P104`	FINISHED
Object	Douglas Turner Ward Douglas Turner Ward was an influential American playwright, actor, director, and producer who played a pivotal role in advancing Black theater and representation on the American stage.	`E1667630`	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: Douglas Turner Ward | Statement: [Negro Ensemble Company, foundedBy, Douglas Turner Ward]

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: Douglas Turner Ward
Triple: [Negro Ensemble Company, foundedBy, Douglas Turner Ward]

Generated description

Douglas Turner Ward was an influential American playwright, actor, director, and producer who played a pivotal role in advancing Black theater and representation on the American stage.

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_69e75a8d1aa48190a4320acd3654762c`	completed	April 21, 2026, 11:07 a.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69f47b8918fc819080825ed92fb3a1a7`	completed	May 1, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_6a105d34bcf0819083ebd5a10110886d`	completed	May 22, 2026, 1:42 p.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_6a105e32237c8190ba397b04b9692e7b`	completed	May 22, 2026, 1:46 p.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_6a105ef626c08190933088d575b2e923`	completed	May 22, 2026, 1:49 p.m.

Created at: April 21, 2026, 12:58 p.m.