Triple

T845855
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Phillips Collection E18273 entity
Predicate hasWorkBy P12366 FINISHED
Object Glenn Ligon
Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist known for his text-based paintings and installations that explore race, language, identity, and the politics of representation.
E101674 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: Glenn Ligon | Statement: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Glenn Ligon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Glenn Ligon
Context triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Glenn Ligon]
  • A. Kara Walker
    Kara Walker is an American contemporary artist renowned for her provocative black cut-paper silhouettes and installations that explore race, gender, sexuality, and the legacy of slavery in the United States.
  • B. Jean-Michel Basquiat
    Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential American artist whose raw, neo-expressionist paintings and graffiti-inspired works made him a central figure in the 1980s New York art scene.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Tavares Strachan
    Tavares Strachan is a Bahamian-born conceptual artist known for his ambitious, research-driven projects that explore themes of identity, history, and the politics of visibility.
  • E. Jacob Lawrence
    Jacob Lawrence was a prominent 20th-century African American painter known for his dynamic, narrative series depicting Black history and contemporary life in a modernist style.
  • 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: Glenn Ligon
Triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Glenn Ligon]
Generated description
Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist known for his text-based paintings and installations that explore race, language, identity, and the politics of representation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Glenn Ligon
Target entity description: Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist known for his text-based paintings and installations that explore race, language, identity, and the politics of representation.
  • A. Kara Walker
    Kara Walker is an American contemporary artist renowned for her provocative black cut-paper silhouettes and installations that explore race, gender, sexuality, and the legacy of slavery in the United States.
  • B. Jean-Michel Basquiat
    Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential American artist whose raw, neo-expressionist paintings and graffiti-inspired works made him a central figure in the 1980s New York art scene.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Tavares Strachan
    Tavares Strachan is a Bahamian-born conceptual artist known for his ambitious, research-driven projects that explore themes of identity, history, and the politics of visibility.
  • E. Jacob Lawrence
    Jacob Lawrence was a prominent 20th-century African American painter known for his dynamic, narrative series depicting Black history and contemporary life in a modernist style.
  • 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_69a7a3bb2fa08190b1e8f26ceb04b08c completed March 4, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7a5929de48190b01f45fbf19c72dc completed March 4, 2026, 3:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7a63205308190b55b76116c0d5e7c completed March 4, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.