Triple

T18186245
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Folkways Records E435421 entity
Predicate curatedBy P5107 FINISHED
Object Harold Courlander
Harold Courlander was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author known for his extensive fieldwork and influential collections of African, Caribbean, and African American folklore and music.
E1440264 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: Harold Courlander | Statement: [Folkways Records, curatedBy, Harold Courlander]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold Courlander
Context triple: [Folkways Records, curatedBy, Harold Courlander]
  • A. Harold Lieberman
    Harold Lieberman is a musician known for performing on Miles Davis’s landmark jazz album "Sketches of Spain."
  • B. Alfred Teitelbaum
    Alfred Teitelbaum, better known as Alfred Tarski, was a Polish-American logician and mathematician renowned for his foundational work in model theory, formal semantics, and the concept of truth in formalized languages.
  • C. Edwin Franko Goldman
    Edwin Franko Goldman was an influential American bandmaster and composer, best known for founding the Goldman Band and popularizing concert band music in the early 20th century.
  • D. Hertz Grosbard
    Hertz Grosbard was a notable individual associated with the name Hertz, though detailed public information about his life and achievements is limited.
  • E. Harold Blum
    Harold Blum is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Blum, though specific widely known biographical details are not clearly established.
  • 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: Harold Courlander
Triple: [Folkways Records, curatedBy, Harold Courlander]
Generated description
Harold Courlander was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author known for his extensive fieldwork and influential collections of African, Caribbean, and African American folklore and music.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold Courlander
Target entity description: Harold Courlander was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author known for his extensive fieldwork and influential collections of African, Caribbean, and African American folklore and music.
  • A. Harold Lieberman
    Harold Lieberman is a musician known for performing on Miles Davis’s landmark jazz album "Sketches of Spain."
  • B. Alfred Teitelbaum
    Alfred Teitelbaum, better known as Alfred Tarski, was a Polish-American logician and mathematician renowned for his foundational work in model theory, formal semantics, and the concept of truth in formalized languages.
  • C. Edwin Franko Goldman
    Edwin Franko Goldman was an influential American bandmaster and composer, best known for founding the Goldman Band and popularizing concert band music in the early 20th century.
  • D. Hertz Grosbard
    Hertz Grosbard was a notable individual associated with the name Hertz, though detailed public information about his life and achievements is limited.
  • E. Harold Blum
    Harold Blum is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Blum, though specific widely known biographical details are not clearly established.
  • 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_69d8b90c7ec081909b4694ccecb449c6 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4dffe9e8081909c6bff40bbd279d2 completed April 19, 2026, 2 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08b3cfd1e88190991d9131ed399756 completed May 16, 2026, 6:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08b4a7779481909b5bf6e99e632841 completed May 16, 2026, 6:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08b57ff3e48190952c973726821e2b completed May 16, 2026, 6:20 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:31 a.m.