Triple

T845785
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Phillips Collection E18273 entity
Predicate hasWorkBy P12366 FINISHED
Object Alma Thomas
Alma Thomas was an influential African American abstract painter known for her vibrant, mosaic-like color field compositions and her pioneering role as a Black woman artist in the mid-20th-century American art world.
 E104378 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: Alma Thomas | Statement: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Alma Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alma Thomas
Context triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Alma Thomas]
  • A. Sam Gilliam
    Sam Gilliam was an influential American abstract painter known for his innovative draped and unstretched canvases that helped redefine the possibilities of color field painting.
  • B. Archibald Motley
    Archibald Motley was an influential African American painter renowned for his vibrant depictions of Black urban life and culture in early 20th-century America.
  • C. Marion Sims Wyeth
    Marion Sims Wyeth was an American architect known for his influential Mediterranean Revival and Palm Beach estate designs in the early 20th century.
  • D. Lee Krasner
    Lee Krasner was an influential American abstract expressionist painter known for her innovative collages and for helping shape the New York School of modern art.
  • E. Georgia O’Keeffe
    Georgia O’Keeffe was a pioneering American modernist painter best known for her large-scale flower paintings, Southwestern landscapes, and influential role in 20th-century art.
  • 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: Alma Thomas
Triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Alma Thomas]
Generated description
Alma Thomas was an influential African American abstract painter known for her vibrant, mosaic-like color field compositions and her pioneering role as a Black woman artist in the mid-20th-century American art world.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alma Thomas
Target entity description: Alma Thomas was an influential African American abstract painter known for her vibrant, mosaic-like color field compositions and her pioneering role as a Black woman artist in the mid-20th-century American art world.
  • A. Sam Gilliam
    Sam Gilliam was an influential American abstract painter known for his innovative draped and unstretched canvases that helped redefine the possibilities of color field painting.
  • B. Archibald Motley
    Archibald Motley was an influential African American painter renowned for his vibrant depictions of Black urban life and culture in early 20th-century America.
  • C. Marion Sims Wyeth
    Marion Sims Wyeth was an American architect known for his influential Mediterranean Revival and Palm Beach estate designs in the early 20th century.
  • D. Lee Krasner
    Lee Krasner was an influential American abstract expressionist painter known for her innovative collages and for helping shape the New York School of modern art.
  • E. Georgia O’Keeffe
    Georgia O’Keeffe was a pioneering American modernist painter best known for her large-scale flower paintings, Southwestern landscapes, and influential role in 20th-century art.
  • 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_69a4938b04208190b82e1df6b572c548 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac0a91e48190b4349ae8bb67fd90 completed March 1, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7b8472f188190b470893c76b20ccf completed March 4, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7bc1acf708190aa86cd5eca101966 completed March 4, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7bc96dd2881909310147292b99023 completed March 4, 2026, 5:01 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.