Triple
T3288221
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | If Beale Street Could Talk |
E69036
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt
Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt is the young, wrongfully imprisoned Black artist at the heart of James Baldwin’s novel and its film adaptation If Beale Street Could Talk, whose love story with Tish drives the narrative.
|
E343569
|
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: Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt | Statement: [If Beale Street Could Talk, mainCharacter, Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt Context triple: [If Beale Street Could Talk, mainCharacter, Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt]
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A.
Kalief Browder
Kalief Browder was a Bronx teenager whose years-long pretrial detention and abuse at Rikers Island, despite never being convicted of a crime, became a powerful symbol of injustices in the U.S. criminal justice system.
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B.
Ordell Robbie
Ordell Robbie is a ruthless and manipulative gunrunner in Quentin Tarantino’s film "Jackie Brown," known for his charismatic yet menacing demeanor.
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C.
Cleveland Brown
Cleveland Brown is a mild-mannered, soft-spoken neighbor and friend of Peter Griffin who later became the star of the spin-off animated sitcom "The Cleveland Show."
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D.
Joe Trace
Joe Trace is a middle-aged cosmetics salesman in Harlem whose passionate affair and its violent aftermath drive the intertwined stories of Toni Morrison’s novel "Jazz."
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E.
James Forman
James Forman was a prominent civil rights leader and strategist, best known as a key organizer in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and an influential voice in the development of Black Power ideology.
- 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: Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt Triple: [If Beale Street Could Talk, mainCharacter, Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt]
Generated description
Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt is the young, wrongfully imprisoned Black artist at the heart of James Baldwin’s novel and its film adaptation If Beale Street Could Talk, whose love story with Tish drives the narrative.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt Target entity description: Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt is the young, wrongfully imprisoned Black artist at the heart of James Baldwin’s novel and its film adaptation If Beale Street Could Talk, whose love story with Tish drives the narrative.
-
A.
Kalief Browder
Kalief Browder was a Bronx teenager whose years-long pretrial detention and abuse at Rikers Island, despite never being convicted of a crime, became a powerful symbol of injustices in the U.S. criminal justice system.
-
B.
Ordell Robbie
Ordell Robbie is a ruthless and manipulative gunrunner in Quentin Tarantino’s film "Jackie Brown," known for his charismatic yet menacing demeanor.
-
C.
Cleveland Brown
Cleveland Brown is a mild-mannered, soft-spoken neighbor and friend of Peter Griffin who later became the star of the spin-off animated sitcom "The Cleveland Show."
-
D.
Joe Trace
Joe Trace is a middle-aged cosmetics salesman in Harlem whose passionate affair and its violent aftermath drive the intertwined stories of Toni Morrison’s novel "Jazz."
-
E.
James Forman
James Forman was a prominent civil rights leader and strategist, best known as a key organizer in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and an influential voice in the development of Black Power ideology.
- 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_69ad859d45748190b0742408c954b39f |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adb058e00881908fdf0a23208860d4 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:22 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b2e862835881909c2f3b8f86f10742 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 4:22 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b2e8f6a7c48190bc457f348c3a7179 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 4:25 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b2e986dcc88190bd3daa6c6fdcb50e |
completed | March 12, 2026, 4:27 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:10 p.m.