Triple
T545304
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
E12718
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Janie Crawford
Janie Crawford is the resilient, self-discovering Black woman protagonist of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," whose life story explores love, independence, and identity in the early 20th-century American South.
|
E68157
|
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: Janie Crawford | Statement: [Their Eyes Were Watching God, mainCharacter, Janie Crawford]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Janie Crawford Context triple: [Their Eyes Were Watching God, mainCharacter, Janie Crawford]
-
A.
Celie Johnson
Celie Johnson is the resilient, abused African-American woman at the center of Alice Walker’s novel and its film adaptation "The Color Purple," portrayed on screen by Whoopi Goldberg.
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B.
Effie White
Effie White is the ambitious, powerhouse lead singer of the girl group in the musical "Dreamgirls," whose personal and professional struggles drive much of the story’s emotional core.
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C.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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D.
Aunt Eller
Aunt Eller is a plainspoken, good-humored farm matriarch who serves as a stabilizing, wisecracking presence in the musical "Oklahoma!".
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E.
Rose of Sharon Joad
Rose of Sharon Joad is a young, pregnant member of the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath," whose experiences embody themes of hardship, loss, and ultimately selfless compassion during the Great Depression.
- 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: Janie Crawford Triple: [Their Eyes Were Watching God, mainCharacter, Janie Crawford]
Generated description
Janie Crawford is the resilient, self-discovering Black woman protagonist of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," whose life story explores love, independence, and identity in the early 20th-century American South.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Janie Crawford Target entity description: Janie Crawford is the resilient, self-discovering Black woman protagonist of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," whose life story explores love, independence, and identity in the early 20th-century American South.
-
A.
Celie Johnson
Celie Johnson is the resilient, abused African-American woman at the center of Alice Walker’s novel and its film adaptation "The Color Purple," portrayed on screen by Whoopi Goldberg.
-
B.
Effie White
Effie White is the ambitious, powerhouse lead singer of the girl group in the musical "Dreamgirls," whose personal and professional struggles drive much of the story’s emotional core.
-
C.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
-
D.
Aunt Eller
Aunt Eller is a plainspoken, good-humored farm matriarch who serves as a stabilizing, wisecracking presence in the musical "Oklahoma!".
-
E.
Rose of Sharon Joad
Rose of Sharon Joad is a young, pregnant member of the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath," whose experiences embody themes of hardship, loss, and ultimately selfless compassion during the Great Depression.
- 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_69a49334226c81908b0ea1689ef6aa3f |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a498dfec5c81908b76d723b30dc2f0 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a4d042a590819096ed622dc6bcf8e4 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 11:48 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a4d0a6aa508190b8a29de838d2dbb0 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 11:49 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a4d114973c81908c3d8fb393f9ee14 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 11:51 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.