Triple

T13979982
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Norton Anthology of African American Literature E336281 entity
Predicate editor P1954 FINISHED
Object Nellie Y. McKay
Nellie Y. McKay was a prominent literary scholar and professor known for her influential work in African American literature and feminist criticism.
E1301158 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: Nellie Y. McKay | Statement: [The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editor, Nellie Y. McKay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nellie Y. McKay
Context triple: [The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editor, Nellie Y. McKay]
  • A. Mildred R. Buchanan
    Mildred R. Buchanan was the wife of American character actor Edgar Buchanan, known for their long marriage that lasted until his death.
  • B. Mildred McAfee Horton
    Mildred McAfee Horton was an American educator and naval officer who became the first director of the U.S. Navy’s WAVES program and the first woman commissioned as a line officer in the U.S. Navy.
  • C. Olive E. Kenny
    Olive E. Kenny was a translator known for rendering works such as Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Sugar Street" into English.
  • D. Mary Louise McLean
    Mary Louise McLean was the daughter of American socialite Mildred McLean Hazen, connected to a prominent Washington, D.C. family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Margaret A. Merritt
    Margaret A. Merritt was an American woman best known as the mother of Janet Lee Bouvier, making her the maternal grandmother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
  • 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: Nellie Y. McKay
Triple: [The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editor, Nellie Y. McKay]
Generated description
Nellie Y. McKay was a prominent literary scholar and professor known for her influential work in African American literature and feminist criticism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nellie Y. McKay
Target entity description: Nellie Y. McKay was a prominent literary scholar and professor known for her influential work in African American literature and feminist criticism.
  • A. Mildred R. Buchanan
    Mildred R. Buchanan was the wife of American character actor Edgar Buchanan, known for their long marriage that lasted until his death.
  • B. Mildred McAfee Horton
    Mildred McAfee Horton was an American educator and naval officer who became the first director of the U.S. Navy’s WAVES program and the first woman commissioned as a line officer in the U.S. Navy.
  • C. Olive E. Kenny
    Olive E. Kenny was a translator known for rendering works such as Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Sugar Street" into English.
  • D. Mary Louise McLean
    Mary Louise McLean was the daughter of American socialite Mildred McLean Hazen, connected to a prominent Washington, D.C. family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Margaret A. Merritt
    Margaret A. Merritt was an American woman best known as the mother of Janet Lee Bouvier, making her the maternal grandmother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
  • 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_69d81c639e808190a0e4b4f3d31c6a59 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de2ea10dc88190b9720919a021e570 completed April 14, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a034307ff088190874d6c00f2741400 completed May 12, 2026, 3:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03445913088190b8662601da93a3ab completed May 12, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a034517f4148190864d916f4d1ef5ba completed May 12, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:18 p.m.