Triple

T3018046
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pinky E82384 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters was a pioneering American blues, jazz, and gospel singer and actress who broke racial barriers on stage, in film, and on radio during the early to mid-20th century.
E319654 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: Ethel Waters | Statement: [Pinky, starring, Ethel Waters]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ethel Waters
Context triple: [Pinky, starring, Ethel Waters]
  • A. Verna Fields
    Verna Fields was an American film editor best known for her Oscar-winning work on the blockbuster thriller "Jaws" and her influential role in New Hollywood cinema.
  • B. Eslanda Goode Robeson
    Eslanda Goode Robeson was an American anthropologist, author, and civil rights activist known for her internationalist work on race and colonialism and her partnership with artist-activist Paul Robeson.
  • C. Etta McDaniel
    Etta McDaniel was an American character actress of the early 20th century, known for her supporting roles in film and as the sister of Academy Award–winning actress Hattie McDaniel.
  • D. Lena Horne
    Lena Horne was an acclaimed American singer, actress, and civil rights activist renowned for her work in jazz and popular music as well as her groundbreaking roles in film and television.
  • E. Bessie Smith
    Bessie Smith was a pioneering American blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, celebrated as the "Empress of the Blues" for her powerful voice and influential recordings.
  • 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: Ethel Waters
Triple: [Pinky, starring, Ethel Waters]
Generated description
Ethel Waters was a pioneering American blues, jazz, and gospel singer and actress who broke racial barriers on stage, in film, and on radio during the early to mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ethel Waters
Target entity description: Ethel Waters was a pioneering American blues, jazz, and gospel singer and actress who broke racial barriers on stage, in film, and on radio during the early to mid-20th century.
  • A. Verna Fields
    Verna Fields was an American film editor best known for her Oscar-winning work on the blockbuster thriller "Jaws" and her influential role in New Hollywood cinema.
  • B. Eslanda Goode Robeson
    Eslanda Goode Robeson was an American anthropologist, author, and civil rights activist known for her internationalist work on race and colonialism and her partnership with artist-activist Paul Robeson.
  • C. Etta McDaniel
    Etta McDaniel was an American character actress of the early 20th century, known for her supporting roles in film and as the sister of Academy Award–winning actress Hattie McDaniel.
  • D. Lena Horne
    Lena Horne was an acclaimed American singer, actress, and civil rights activist renowned for her work in jazz and popular music as well as her groundbreaking roles in film and television.
  • E. Bessie Smith
    Bessie Smith was a pioneering American blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, celebrated as the "Empress of the Blues" for her powerful voice and influential recordings.
  • 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_69ad8b1eb53481908c39bbcd1ec104b2 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9a90ea64819080620e60bbd6aa24 completed March 8, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b12e71a9c08190848ecb3bcab18bb5 completed March 11, 2026, 8:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b132319fd481908426670f319f56c5 completed March 11, 2026, 9:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1d6729f848190a275638f074c1729 completed March 11, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3 p.m.