Triple
T549239
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James Baldwin |
E11801
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by James Baldwin that portrays a young Black couple’s love and struggle for justice in Harlem amid systemic racism and wrongful imprisonment.
|
E69036
|
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: If Beale Street Could Talk | Statement: [James Baldwin, notableWork, If Beale Street Could Talk]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: If Beale Street Could Talk Context triple: [James Baldwin, notableWork, If Beale Street Could Talk]
-
A.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 2020 drama film adaptation of August Wilson's play, depicting tensions within a 1920s blues band and featuring one of Chadwick Boseman's most acclaimed final performances.
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B.
Poetic Justice
Poetic Justice is a 1993 romantic drama film starring Janet Jackson as a grieving young poet who finds healing and love on a road trip from Los Angeles to Oakland.
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C.
Another Country
Another Country is a 1962 novel by James Baldwin that explores race, sexuality, and complex human relationships in mid-20th-century America.
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D.
Moonlight
Moonlight is a critically acclaimed 2016 coming-of-age drama film that explores themes of identity, sexuality, and race through the life of a young Black man growing up in Miami.
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E.
Montage of a Dream Deferred
Montage of a Dream Deferred is a 1951 book-length sequence of jazz-influenced poems by Langston Hughes that explores the struggles, hopes, and frustrations of African Americans in Harlem.
- 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: If Beale Street Could Talk Triple: [James Baldwin, notableWork, If Beale Street Could Talk]
Generated description
If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by James Baldwin that portrays a young Black couple’s love and struggle for justice in Harlem amid systemic racism and wrongful imprisonment.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: If Beale Street Could Talk Target entity description: If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by James Baldwin that portrays a young Black couple’s love and struggle for justice in Harlem amid systemic racism and wrongful imprisonment.
-
A.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 2020 drama film adaptation of August Wilson's play, depicting tensions within a 1920s blues band and featuring one of Chadwick Boseman's most acclaimed final performances.
-
B.
Poetic Justice
Poetic Justice is a 1993 romantic drama film starring Janet Jackson as a grieving young poet who finds healing and love on a road trip from Los Angeles to Oakland.
-
C.
Another Country
Another Country is a 1962 novel by James Baldwin that explores race, sexuality, and complex human relationships in mid-20th-century America.
-
D.
Moonlight
Moonlight is a critically acclaimed 2016 coming-of-age drama film that explores themes of identity, sexuality, and race through the life of a young Black man growing up in Miami.
-
E.
Montage of a Dream Deferred
Montage of a Dream Deferred is a 1951 book-length sequence of jazz-influenced poems by Langston Hughes that explores the struggles, hopes, and frustrations of African Americans in Harlem.
- 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_69a4932941d08190815efd422f0b4ca7 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a49901e4e481909a5ed93c21ab37bd |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a4e3f755288190bcbf798cd52f84e1 |
completed | March 2, 2026, 1:12 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a4e454a0288190a7056b206341519a |
completed | March 2, 2026, 1:13 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a4e4d7bd108190a386a40c4b739d11 |
completed | March 2, 2026, 1:16 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.