Triple

T88358
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Howard University E1775 entity
Predicate hasAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston was an influential African American author, anthropologist, and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
E9025 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: Zora Neale Hurston | Statement: [Howard University, hasAlumni, Zora Neale Hurston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zora Neale Hurston
Context triple: [Howard University, hasAlumni, Zora Neale Hurston]
  • A. Toni Morrison
    Toni Morrison was a renowned American novelist, essayist, and professor celebrated for her powerful explorations of Black American life and identity in works such as "Beloved" and "Song of Solomon."
  • B. Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Harriet Beecher Stowe was a 19th-century American author and abolitionist best known for her influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
  • C. Isabel Wilkerson
    Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and author best known for her acclaimed works on race and migration in the United States, including "The Warmth of Other Suns" and "Caste."
  • D. Crystal Eastman
    Crystal Eastman was an American lawyer, feminist, pacifist, and pioneering civil liberties advocate who played a key role in the early 20th-century progressive and suffrage movements.
  • E. Olivia Langdon Clemens
    Olivia Langdon Clemens was the educated, reform-minded wife of author Mark Twain, known for her strong moral influence on his work and her involvement in social causes.
  • 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: Zora Neale Hurston
Triple: [Howard University, hasAlumni, Zora Neale Hurston]
Generated description
Zora Neale Hurston was an influential African American author, anthropologist, and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zora Neale Hurston
Target entity description: Zora Neale Hurston was an influential African American author, anthropologist, and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
  • A. Toni Morrison
    Toni Morrison was a renowned American novelist, essayist, and professor celebrated for her powerful explorations of Black American life and identity in works such as "Beloved" and "Song of Solomon."
  • B. Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Harriet Beecher Stowe was a 19th-century American author and abolitionist best known for her influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
  • C. Isabel Wilkerson
    Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and author best known for her acclaimed works on race and migration in the United States, including "The Warmth of Other Suns" and "Caste."
  • D. Crystal Eastman
    Crystal Eastman was an American lawyer, feminist, pacifist, and pioneering civil liberties advocate who played a key role in the early 20th-century progressive and suffrage movements.
  • E. Olivia Langdon Clemens
    Olivia Langdon Clemens was the educated, reform-minded wife of author Mark Twain, known for her strong moral influence on his work and her involvement in social causes.
  • 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_69a24d1a97dc819094e6c021fe9b05a7 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24f6997c081908b202f937eb2b14f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a266ebb994819085fb84dd1d2d25ad completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a267b740388190a321023aa52a539a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2685dc64c8190bd611985d1bc27a3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 4 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:07 a.m.