Triple

T4641568
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sam Gilliam E101667 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Dorothy Butler Gilliam
Dorothy Butler Gilliam is a pioneering American journalist and author who became the first African American female reporter at The Washington Post and a prominent advocate for diversity in the media.
 E457796 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: Dorothy Butler Gilliam | Statement: [Sam Gilliam, spouse, Dorothy Butler Gilliam]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Dorothy Butler Gilliam
Context triple: [Sam Gilliam, spouse, Dorothy Butler Gilliam]
  • A. Shirley Graham Du Bois
    Shirley Graham Du Bois was an American writer, playwright, composer, and activist known for her contributions to African American arts and her leadership in Pan-African and civil rights movements.
  • B. Rutha Mae Harris
    Rutha Mae Harris is an American civil rights activist and gospel singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and galvanize the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
  • C. Beverly Franklin
    Beverly Franklin is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Franklin.
  • D. Bettye J. Gardner
    Bettye J. Gardner is an American historian and educator known for her scholarship on African American history and her contributions to higher education.
  • E. Fredricka G. Ross
    Fredricka G. Ross is a songwriter best known for co-writing the lyrics to Alicia Keys’ hit ballad “Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down.”
  • 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: Dorothy Butler Gilliam
Triple: [Sam Gilliam, spouse, Dorothy Butler Gilliam]
Generated description
Dorothy Butler Gilliam is a pioneering American journalist and author who became the first African American female reporter at The Washington Post and a prominent advocate for diversity in the media.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Dorothy Butler Gilliam
Target entity description: Dorothy Butler Gilliam is a pioneering American journalist and author who became the first African American female reporter at The Washington Post and a prominent advocate for diversity in the media.
  • A. Shirley Graham Du Bois
    Shirley Graham Du Bois was an American writer, playwright, composer, and activist known for her contributions to African American arts and her leadership in Pan-African and civil rights movements.
  • B. Rutha Mae Harris
    Rutha Mae Harris is an American civil rights activist and gospel singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and galvanize the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
  • C. Beverly Franklin
    Beverly Franklin is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Franklin.
  • D. Bettye J. Gardner
    Bettye J. Gardner is an American historian and educator known for her scholarship on African American history and her contributions to higher education.
  • E. Fredricka G. Ross
    Fredricka G. Ross is a songwriter best known for co-writing the lyrics to Alicia Keys’ hit ballad “Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down.”
  • 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_69bd43d3bc7c81908f81fcf380476b0f completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5a91b7748190b0b080af76e7b39f completed March 20, 2026, 2:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfad2fa588190aa2206ad987c5d70 completed March 21, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfbc12acc8190b8116a6003abb3e3 completed March 21, 2026, 2 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfc44536c8190a71e52b0690a7570 completed March 21, 2026, 2:02 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:14 p.m.