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]
  • 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
  • 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.