Triple
T474256
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Zora Neale Hurston |
E9025
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Mules and Men
Mules and Men is a 1935 collection of African American folktales and hoodoo ethnography by Zora Neale Hurston, blending anthropological fieldwork with literary storytelling.
|
E60060
|
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: Mules and Men | Statement: [Zora Neale Hurston, notableWork, Mules and Men]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mules and Men Context triple: [Zora Neale Hurston, notableWork, Mules and Men]
-
A.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves is a multi-volume collection of first-person accounts by formerly enslaved people, compiled in the 1930s and 1940s and regarded as one of the most important primary sources on American slavery.
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B.
Negro Life at the South
"Negro Life at the South" is an 1859 genre painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts the everyday lives of enslaved African Americans in a Washington, D.C. backyard, offering a complex, nuanced view of slavery on the eve of the Civil War.
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C.
Dust Tracks on a Road
Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston’s 1942 autobiography, chronicling her life from a Southern Black childhood to her emergence as a prominent writer and anthropologist.
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D.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a seminal 1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston that follows the life and self-discovery of Janie Crawford in the early 20th-century American South.
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E.
Tar Baby
"Tar Baby" is a 1981 novel by Toni Morrison that explores race, class, identity, and desire through the complex relationships between a Black fashion model and a mysterious drifter on a Caribbean island.
- 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: Mules and Men Triple: [Zora Neale Hurston, notableWork, Mules and Men]
Generated description
Mules and Men is a 1935 collection of African American folktales and hoodoo ethnography by Zora Neale Hurston, blending anthropological fieldwork with literary storytelling.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mules and Men Target entity description: Mules and Men is a 1935 collection of African American folktales and hoodoo ethnography by Zora Neale Hurston, blending anthropological fieldwork with literary storytelling.
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A.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves is a multi-volume collection of first-person accounts by formerly enslaved people, compiled in the 1930s and 1940s and regarded as one of the most important primary sources on American slavery.
-
B.
Negro Life at the South
"Negro Life at the South" is an 1859 genre painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts the everyday lives of enslaved African Americans in a Washington, D.C. backyard, offering a complex, nuanced view of slavery on the eve of the Civil War.
-
C.
Dust Tracks on a Road
Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston’s 1942 autobiography, chronicling her life from a Southern Black childhood to her emergence as a prominent writer and anthropologist.
-
D.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a seminal 1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston that follows the life and self-discovery of Janie Crawford in the early 20th-century American South.
-
E.
Tar Baby
"Tar Baby" is a 1981 novel by Toni Morrison that explores race, class, identity, and desire through the complex relationships between a Black fashion model and a mysterious drifter on a Caribbean island.
- 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_69a2e7ff81708190b0507a24a997232c |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2f039f3d88190a7c93ecbf1bf5f58 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:40 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a46c5d827c8190b620958383d23f41 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 4:42 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a46cc892308190907a09fd3ca2cfc4 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 4:43 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a46d11a6288190ac9cbd0d50b95421 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 4:45 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.