Triple
T545306
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
E12718
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Joe Starks
Joe Starks is an ambitious, charismatic, and controlling husband in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," whose rise to power in Eatonville profoundly shapes Janie Crawford’s journey toward independence.
|
E68159
|
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: Joe Starks | Statement: [Their Eyes Were Watching God, mainCharacter, Joe Starks]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joe Starks Context triple: [Their Eyes Were Watching God, mainCharacter, Joe Starks]
-
A.
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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B.
Calvin Candie
Calvin Candie is a sadistic and flamboyant Southern plantation owner who serves as the main antagonist in Quentin Tarantino's film "Django Unchained."
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C.
Bull Connor
Bull Connor was a notoriously segregationist Birmingham, Alabama public safety commissioner whose brutal tactics against civil rights demonstrators in the early 1960s galvanized national support for the civil rights movement.
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D.
Cleveland Brown Jr.
Cleveland Brown Jr. is a fictional character from the animated sitcom universe of Family Guy, known as Cleveland Brown's soft-spoken, overweight teenage son who becomes a central figure in The Cleveland Show.
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E.
Harmon Jones
Harmon Jones was an American film editor and director active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century, known for his work on several notable studio productions.
- 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: Joe Starks Triple: [Their Eyes Were Watching God, mainCharacter, Joe Starks]
Generated description
Joe Starks is an ambitious, charismatic, and controlling husband in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," whose rise to power in Eatonville profoundly shapes Janie Crawford’s journey toward independence.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joe Starks Target entity description: Joe Starks is an ambitious, charismatic, and controlling husband in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," whose rise to power in Eatonville profoundly shapes Janie Crawford’s journey toward independence.
-
A.
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."
-
B.
Calvin Candie
Calvin Candie is a sadistic and flamboyant Southern plantation owner who serves as the main antagonist in Quentin Tarantino's film "Django Unchained."
-
C.
Bull Connor
Bull Connor was a notoriously segregationist Birmingham, Alabama public safety commissioner whose brutal tactics against civil rights demonstrators in the early 1960s galvanized national support for the civil rights movement.
-
D.
Cleveland Brown Jr.
Cleveland Brown Jr. is a fictional character from the animated sitcom universe of Family Guy, known as Cleveland Brown's soft-spoken, overweight teenage son who becomes a central figure in The Cleveland Show.
-
E.
Harmon Jones
Harmon Jones was an American film editor and director active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century, known for his work on several notable studio productions.
- 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.