Triple

T17389394
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shirley Owens E422775 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Shirley Alston
Shirley Alston is an American singer best known as the lead vocalist of the influential 1960s girl group The Shirelles.
E1266522 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: Shirley Alston | Statement: [Shirley Owens, alsoKnownAs, Shirley Alston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shirley Alston
Context triple: [Shirley Owens, alsoKnownAs, Shirley Alston]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Elizabeth Catlett
    Elizabeth Catlett was an influential African American and Mexican sculptor and printmaker renowned for her politically charged, socially conscious depictions of Black women and the African diaspora.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Loïs Mailou Jones
    Loïs Mailou Jones was an influential African American painter and educator whose long career spanned the Harlem Renaissance to the late 20th century, known for her vibrant, culturally rich works and her role in advancing Black artists in the United States and abroad.
  • E. Romare Bearden
    Romare Bearden was a pioneering 20th-century African American artist best known for his innovative collages that explored Black life, history, and culture.
  • 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: Shirley Alston
Triple: [Shirley Owens, alsoKnownAs, Shirley Alston]
Generated description
Shirley Alston is an American singer best known as the lead vocalist of the influential 1960s girl group The Shirelles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shirley Alston
Target entity description: Shirley Alston is an American singer best known as the lead vocalist of the influential 1960s girl group The Shirelles.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Elizabeth Catlett
    Elizabeth Catlett was an influential African American and Mexican sculptor and printmaker renowned for her politically charged, socially conscious depictions of Black women and the African diaspora.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Loïs Mailou Jones
    Loïs Mailou Jones was an influential African American painter and educator whose long career spanned the Harlem Renaissance to the late 20th century, known for her vibrant, culturally rich works and her role in advancing Black artists in the United States and abroad.
  • E. Romare Bearden
    Romare Bearden was a pioneering 20th-century African American artist best known for his innovative collages that explored Black life, history, and culture.
  • 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_69d889d710288190bf0f4762801fefae completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e43a8c718c81909cb20749aaf12897 completed April 19, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a019ffcfe508190a03907a3c0eafe2c completed May 11, 2026, 9:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01a19785508190a759628553297053 completed May 11, 2026, 9:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01a1f98470819086142ef594a8a13f completed May 11, 2026, 9:31 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:45 a.m.