Triple

T20234332
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Imitation of Life (1934 film) E495609 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Fredi Washington
Fredi Washington was an African American stage and film actress and civil rights activist best known for her groundbreaking role as a light-skinned Black woman passing for white in 1930s Hollywood.
E1419926 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: Fredi Washington | Statement: [Imitation of Life (1934 film), starring, Fredi Washington]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fredi Washington
Context triple: [Imitation of Life (1934 film), starring, Fredi Washington]
  • A. Louise Beavers
    Louise Beavers was an American film and television actress best known for her pioneering roles as a Black performer in early Hollywood, including her acclaimed performance in the 1934 film "Imitation of Life."
  • B. Haywood Woodard
    Haywood Woodard is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Woodard.
  • C. Ethel Waters
    Ethel Waters was a pioneering American blues, jazz, and gospel singer and actress who broke racial barriers on stage, in film, and on radio during the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. Edward J. Robeson Jr.
    Edward J. Robeson Jr. was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Virginia in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Hattie McDaniel
    Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer, and comedian best known as the first African American to win an Academy Award for her role in "Gone with the Wind."
  • 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: Fredi Washington
Triple: [Imitation of Life (1934 film), starring, Fredi Washington]
Generated description
Fredi Washington was an African American stage and film actress and civil rights activist best known for her groundbreaking role as a light-skinned Black woman passing for white in 1930s Hollywood.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fredi Washington
Target entity description: Fredi Washington was an African American stage and film actress and civil rights activist best known for her groundbreaking role as a light-skinned Black woman passing for white in 1930s Hollywood.
  • A. Louise Beavers
    Louise Beavers was an American film and television actress best known for her pioneering roles as a Black performer in early Hollywood, including her acclaimed performance in the 1934 film "Imitation of Life."
  • B. Haywood Woodard
    Haywood Woodard is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Woodard.
  • C. Ethel Waters
    Ethel Waters was a pioneering American blues, jazz, and gospel singer and actress who broke racial barriers on stage, in film, and on radio during the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. Edward J. Robeson Jr.
    Edward J. Robeson Jr. was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Virginia in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Hattie McDaniel
    Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer, and comedian best known as the first African American to win an Academy Award for her role in "Gone with the Wind."
  • 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_69da626cff80819097b530718a7c98b6 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e67167fae88190a26ff10d698174f8 completed April 20, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08551ff05c819092494bbba7fc6f82 completed May 16, 2026, 11:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0855b26f0081909c2b74b888e0cd25 completed May 16, 2026, 11:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08567e39548190bd201d744e5fa7e9 completed May 16, 2026, 11:35 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:40 p.m.