Triple

T845860
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Phillips Collection E18273 entity
Predicate hasWorkBy P12366 FINISHED
Object William Kentridge
William Kentridge is a South African artist renowned for his animated films, charcoal drawings, and politically charged works addressing apartheid and memory.
 E106647 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: William Kentridge | Statement: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, William Kentridge]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Kentridge
Context triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, William Kentridge]
  • A. El Anatsui
    El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor renowned for his monumental wall-hanging installations made from discarded bottle caps and metal fragments, which explore themes of history, consumption, and transformation.
  • B. A. R. Penck
    A. R. Penck was a German neo-expressionist painter, printmaker, and sculptor known for his primitive, pictographic style and politically charged works created in both East and West Germany.
  • C. Grayson Perry
    Grayson Perry is a British contemporary artist and Turner Prize-winning ceramicist known for his elaborate vases, tapestries, and his cross-dressing alter ego, Claire.
  • 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. Mark Bradford
    Mark Bradford is an American contemporary artist renowned for his large-scale abstract mixed-media collages and installations that explore race, class, and urban experience.
  • 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: William Kentridge
Triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, William Kentridge]
Generated description
William Kentridge is a South African artist renowned for his animated films, charcoal drawings, and politically charged works addressing apartheid and memory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Kentridge
Target entity description: William Kentridge is a South African artist renowned for his animated films, charcoal drawings, and politically charged works addressing apartheid and memory.
  • A. El Anatsui
    El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor renowned for his monumental wall-hanging installations made from discarded bottle caps and metal fragments, which explore themes of history, consumption, and transformation.
  • B. A. R. Penck
    A. R. Penck was a German neo-expressionist painter, printmaker, and sculptor known for his primitive, pictographic style and politically charged works created in both East and West Germany.
  • C. Grayson Perry
    Grayson Perry is a British contemporary artist and Turner Prize-winning ceramicist known for his elaborate vases, tapestries, and his cross-dressing alter ego, Claire.
  • 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. Mark Bradford
    Mark Bradford is an American contemporary artist renowned for his large-scale abstract mixed-media collages and installations that explore race, class, and urban experience.
  • 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_69a7c714fc948190b84d34192b0064ff completed March 4, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7c82c5b888190ae5440f5d06d2bce completed March 4, 2026, 5:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7c8991e7c81908c31d60f9a7f2340 completed March 4, 2026, 5:52 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.