Triple
T671155
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | African American literature |
E12972
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasNotableAuthor |
P4244
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
August Wilson
August Wilson was a renowned American playwright best known for his cycle of plays chronicling African American life in the 20th century, including works such as "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson."
|
E88555
|
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: August Wilson | Statement: [African American literature, hasNotableAuthor, August Wilson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: August Wilson Context triple: [African American literature, hasNotableAuthor, August Wilson]
-
A.
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka was an influential American poet, playwright, and activist whose radical, politically charged work helped shape Black Arts and Black Power era cultural movements.
-
B.
Houston A. Baker Jr.
Houston A. Baker Jr. is an influential American literary critic and scholar whose work on African American literature and culture has significantly shaped Black literary theory and criticism.
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C.
Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American playwright renowned for socially conscious works such as "Ruined" and "Sweat."
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D.
James Baldwin
James Baldwin was a prominent 20th-century American writer and essayist whose works powerfully explored race, sexuality, and identity in the United States.
-
E.
Richard Wright
Richard Wright was a pioneering 20th-century African American author whose powerful novels and essays, such as "Native Son" and "Black Boy," exposed the brutal realities of racism and profoundly shaped later Black writers and intellectuals.
- 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: August Wilson Triple: [African American literature, hasNotableAuthor, August Wilson]
Generated description
August Wilson was a renowned American playwright best known for his cycle of plays chronicling African American life in the 20th century, including works such as "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: August Wilson Target entity description: August Wilson was a renowned American playwright best known for his cycle of plays chronicling African American life in the 20th century, including works such as "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson."
-
A.
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka was an influential American poet, playwright, and activist whose radical, politically charged work helped shape Black Arts and Black Power era cultural movements.
-
B.
Houston A. Baker Jr.
Houston A. Baker Jr. is an influential American literary critic and scholar whose work on African American literature and culture has significantly shaped Black literary theory and criticism.
-
C.
Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American playwright renowned for socially conscious works such as "Ruined" and "Sweat."
-
D.
James Baldwin
James Baldwin was a prominent 20th-century American writer and essayist whose works powerfully explored race, sexuality, and identity in the United States.
-
E.
Richard Wright
Richard Wright was a pioneering 20th-century African American author whose powerful novels and essays, such as "Native Son" and "Black Boy," exposed the brutal realities of racism and profoundly shaped later Black writers and intellectuals.
- 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_69a493355dec819098d4244b2fa34885 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4a021b908819086f7cfe65def4728 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:22 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a654d625608190814bec3b412c86d7 |
completed | March 3, 2026, 3:26 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a65583c7a481908b3833969c30da29 |
completed | March 3, 2026, 3:29 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a655e1e88481909e37a9911bf5ba8c |
completed | March 3, 2026, 3:30 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.