Triple

T7549545
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lady Sings the Blues E178494 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Virginia Capers
Virginia Capers was an American actress and Tony Award–winning stage performer known for her work in film, television, and theater.
E671820 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: Virginia Capers | Statement: [Lady Sings the Blues, starring, Virginia Capers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia Capers
Context triple: [Lady Sings the Blues, starring, Virginia Capers]
  • A. Elouise Sidwell
    Elouise Sidwell was the wife of American composer and television theme music writer Earle Hagen.
  • B. Magnolia Breeland
    Magnolia Breeland is a character from the TV series "Hart of Dixie," known as Lemon Breeland's younger sister and a member of the prominent Breeland family in Bluebell, Alabama.
  • C. Shirley Yarbrough
    Shirley Yarbrough was the wife of prominent civil rights leader and presidential adviser Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
  • D. Arvilla Knight
    Arvilla Knight was the wife of California Governor Goodwin Knight and served as the state's First Lady during his administration.
  • E. Leontine Drinkard
    Leontine Drinkard was a member of the prominent Warwick–Houston musical family, known as the matriarchal lineage behind singers like Cissy Houston and Whitney Houston.
  • 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: Virginia Capers
Triple: [Lady Sings the Blues, starring, Virginia Capers]
Generated description
Virginia Capers was an American actress and Tony Award–winning stage performer known for her work in film, television, and theater.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia Capers
Target entity description: Virginia Capers was an American actress and Tony Award–winning stage performer known for her work in film, television, and theater.
  • A. Elouise Sidwell
    Elouise Sidwell was the wife of American composer and television theme music writer Earle Hagen.
  • B. Magnolia Breeland
    Magnolia Breeland is a character from the TV series "Hart of Dixie," known as Lemon Breeland's younger sister and a member of the prominent Breeland family in Bluebell, Alabama.
  • C. Shirley Yarbrough
    Shirley Yarbrough was the wife of prominent civil rights leader and presidential adviser Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
  • D. Arvilla Knight
    Arvilla Knight was the wife of California Governor Goodwin Knight and served as the state's First Lady during his administration.
  • E. Leontine Drinkard
    Leontine Drinkard was a member of the prominent Warwick–Houston musical family, known as the matriarchal lineage behind singers like Cissy Houston and Whitney Houston.
  • 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_69c69f2cbe08819088f9eb0c03ef529b completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f8b35ba481908e1e5bbf329daa33 completed March 27, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c84f2f7c448190858510d1511b42a7 completed March 28, 2026, 9:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8504aadc88190bc97c33fb19a5230 completed March 28, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8528a8bd081908a281d2827f5587d completed March 28, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:49 p.m.