Triple

T834921
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jazz (novel) E18048 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Joe Trace
Joe Trace is a middle-aged cosmetics salesman in Harlem whose passionate affair and its violent aftermath drive the intertwined stories of Toni Morrison’s novel "Jazz."
E97632 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: Joe Trace | Statement: [Jazz (novel), mainCharacter, Joe Trace]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joe Trace
Context triple: [Jazz (novel), mainCharacter, Joe Trace]
  • A. Cleveland Brown
    Cleveland Brown is a mild-mannered, soft-spoken neighbor and friend of Peter Griffin who later became the star of the spin-off animated sitcom "The Cleveland Show."
  • B. Timothy Mosley
    Timothy Mosley, better known as Timbaland, is an influential American record producer, rapper, and songwriter renowned for his innovative, genre-shaping work in hip-hop and R&B.
  • C. Joe Starks
    Joe Starks is an ambitious, charismatic, and controlling husband in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," whose rise to power in Eatonville profoundly shapes Janie Crawford’s journey toward independence.
  • D. Dulé Hill
    Dulé Hill is an American actor best known for his roles as presidential aide Charlie Young on "The West Wing" and pharmaceutical salesman-turned-fake psychic Burton "Gus" Guster on "Psych."
  • E. Henry Blanke
    Henry Blanke was a prominent German-born American film producer best known for his long association with Warner Bros. and his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • 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: Joe Trace
Triple: [Jazz (novel), mainCharacter, Joe Trace]
Generated description
Joe Trace is a middle-aged cosmetics salesman in Harlem whose passionate affair and its violent aftermath drive the intertwined stories of Toni Morrison’s novel "Jazz."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joe Trace
Target entity description: Joe Trace is a middle-aged cosmetics salesman in Harlem whose passionate affair and its violent aftermath drive the intertwined stories of Toni Morrison’s novel "Jazz."
  • A. Cleveland Brown
    Cleveland Brown is a mild-mannered, soft-spoken neighbor and friend of Peter Griffin who later became the star of the spin-off animated sitcom "The Cleveland Show."
  • B. Timothy Mosley
    Timothy Mosley, better known as Timbaland, is an influential American record producer, rapper, and songwriter renowned for his innovative, genre-shaping work in hip-hop and R&B.
  • C. Joe Starks
    Joe Starks is an ambitious, charismatic, and controlling husband in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," whose rise to power in Eatonville profoundly shapes Janie Crawford’s journey toward independence.
  • D. Dulé Hill
    Dulé Hill is an American actor best known for his roles as presidential aide Charlie Young on "The West Wing" and pharmaceutical salesman-turned-fake psychic Burton "Gus" Guster on "Psych."
  • E. Henry Blanke
    Henry Blanke was a prominent German-born American film producer best known for his long association with Warner Bros. and his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • 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_69a49389f44881909a608fb27d89f247 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4abccb94881909cd49aa3fd986b4a completed March 1, 2026, 9:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a76d9b57fc8190981ed4eeb2ac5548 completed March 3, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a782fae3f48190b27e5f0aefa1dd70 completed March 4, 2026, 12:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7838451348190838910e90866a1f0 completed March 4, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.