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.
  • 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
  • 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.