Triple

T549268
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Baldwin E11801 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Marlon James
Marlon James is a Jamaican novelist and Booker Prize winner known for his ambitious, genre-blending works that explore history, violence, and Black identity.
E69663 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: Marlon James | Statement: [James Baldwin, influenced, Marlon James]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marlon James
Context triple: [James Baldwin, influenced, Marlon James]
  • A. Zadie Smith
    Zadie Smith is a British novelist and essayist renowned for her critically acclaimed debut "White Teeth" and her incisive explorations of race, identity, and contemporary multicultural life.
  • B. Michael Ondaatje
    Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet best known for his Booker Prize–winning novel "The English Patient."
  • C. Mohsin Hamid
    Mohsin Hamid is a Pakistani novelist and essayist known for his inventive narrative styles and acclaimed works such as "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" and "Exit West."
  • D. William Faulks
    William Faulks is known as the son of British novelist Sebastian Faulks.
  • E. William T. Vollmann
    William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for his ambitious, genre-blurring works that often explore violence, marginalization, and the moral complexities of history and contemporary society.
  • 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: Marlon James
Triple: [James Baldwin, influenced, Marlon James]
Generated description
Marlon James is a Jamaican novelist and Booker Prize winner known for his ambitious, genre-blending works that explore history, violence, and Black identity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marlon James
Target entity description: Marlon James is a Jamaican novelist and Booker Prize winner known for his ambitious, genre-blending works that explore history, violence, and Black identity.
  • A. Zadie Smith
    Zadie Smith is a British novelist and essayist renowned for her critically acclaimed debut "White Teeth" and her incisive explorations of race, identity, and contemporary multicultural life.
  • B. Michael Ondaatje
    Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet best known for his Booker Prize–winning novel "The English Patient."
  • C. Mohsin Hamid
    Mohsin Hamid is a Pakistani novelist and essayist known for his inventive narrative styles and acclaimed works such as "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" and "Exit West."
  • D. William Faulks
    William Faulks is known as the son of British novelist Sebastian Faulks.
  • E. William T. Vollmann
    William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for his ambitious, genre-blurring works that often explore violence, marginalization, and the moral complexities of history and contemporary society.
  • 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_69a4e63063388190bece9d3b8cc027b8 completed March 2, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4e6fe6d608190b8b182702399e340 completed March 2, 2026, 1:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4e757a8ec8190b0e4990555855b73 completed March 2, 2026, 1:26 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.