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."
  • 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
  • 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.