Triple

T262908
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Spingarn Medal E5788 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Joel Elias Spingarn
Joel Elias Spingarn was an American educator, literary critic, and civil rights activist who played a key leadership role in the early NAACP.
E41034 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: Joel Elias Spingarn | Statement: [Spingarn Medal, namedAfter, Joel Elias Spingarn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joel Elias Spingarn
Context triple: [Spingarn Medal, namedAfter, Joel Elias Spingarn]
  • A. Josiah E. DuBois Jr.
    Josiah E. DuBois Jr. was a U.S. Treasury Department lawyer and key Holocaust whistleblower whose efforts helped expose government inaction and led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.
  • B. Whitney Young
    Whitney Young was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime head of the National Urban League, known for his pragmatic, behind-the-scenes efforts to combat racial inequality and expand economic opportunities for Black Americans.
  • C. A. Philip Randolph
    A. Philip Randolph was a prominent African American labor leader and civil rights activist who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and helped spearhead the 1963 March on Washington.
  • D. Roy Wilkins
    Roy Wilkins was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime NAACP executive director who played a central role in the mid-20th-century struggle for racial equality.
  • E. W. E. B. Du Bois
    W. E. B. Du Bois was an influential African American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP, renowned for his pioneering work on race and inequality.
  • 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: Joel Elias Spingarn
Triple: [Spingarn Medal, namedAfter, Joel Elias Spingarn]
Generated description
Joel Elias Spingarn was an American educator, literary critic, and civil rights activist who played a key leadership role in the early NAACP.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joel Elias Spingarn
Target entity description: Joel Elias Spingarn was an American educator, literary critic, and civil rights activist who played a key leadership role in the early NAACP.
  • A. Josiah E. DuBois Jr.
    Josiah E. DuBois Jr. was a U.S. Treasury Department lawyer and key Holocaust whistleblower whose efforts helped expose government inaction and led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.
  • B. Whitney Young
    Whitney Young was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime head of the National Urban League, known for his pragmatic, behind-the-scenes efforts to combat racial inequality and expand economic opportunities for Black Americans.
  • C. A. Philip Randolph
    A. Philip Randolph was a prominent African American labor leader and civil rights activist who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and helped spearhead the 1963 March on Washington.
  • D. Roy Wilkins
    Roy Wilkins was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime NAACP executive director who played a central role in the mid-20th-century struggle for racial equality.
  • E. W. E. B. Du Bois
    W. E. B. Du Bois was an influential African American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP, renowned for his pioneering work on race and inequality.
  • 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_69a258dd8ea08190ac554a1cc8dfd8c3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:54 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25d8c7f448190af9145256f994177 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3c8b2a8a081908b45c15fae160d9e completed March 1, 2026, 5:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3c933bb948190a11fa7c5500391be completed March 1, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3c9f98dec8190bec247226cdb09af completed March 1, 2026, 5:09 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:55 a.m.