Triple

T20234336
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Imitation of Life (1934 film) E495609 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Peola Johnson
Peola Johnson is a pivotal character in the 1934 film "Imitation of Life," a light-skinned Black woman who struggles with racial identity and attempts to pass as white, highlighting themes of race, passing, and mother-daughter conflict.
E1421434 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: Peola Johnson | Statement: [Imitation of Life (1934 film), character, Peola Johnson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Peola Johnson
Context triple: [Imitation of Life (1934 film), character, Peola Johnson]
  • A. Beulah Brown
    Beulah Brown is the central housekeeper character from the mid-20th-century American radio and television comedy series "Beulah."
  • B. Otelia Cox
    Otelia Cox is the wife of American actor Tony Cox, known for his roles in films such as "Bad Santa" and "Me, Myself & Irene."
  • C. Willa Brown
    Willa Brown was a pioneering African American aviator, flight instructor, and civil rights advocate who became the first Black woman in the United States to earn both a pilot’s license and a commercial pilot’s license.
  • D. Edna Mae McCauley
    Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
  • E. Fannie N. Smith
    Fannie N. Smith was the first wife of African American educator and leader Booker T. Washington, with whom she shared the early years of his rise to prominence.
  • 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: Peola Johnson
Triple: [Imitation of Life (1934 film), character, Peola Johnson]
Generated description
Peola Johnson is a pivotal character in the 1934 film "Imitation of Life," a light-skinned Black woman who struggles with racial identity and attempts to pass as white, highlighting themes of race, passing, and mother-daughter conflict.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Peola Johnson
Target entity description: Peola Johnson is a pivotal character in the 1934 film "Imitation of Life," a light-skinned Black woman who struggles with racial identity and attempts to pass as white, highlighting themes of race, passing, and mother-daughter conflict.
  • A. Beulah Brown
    Beulah Brown is the central housekeeper character from the mid-20th-century American radio and television comedy series "Beulah."
  • B. Otelia Cox
    Otelia Cox is the wife of American actor Tony Cox, known for his roles in films such as "Bad Santa" and "Me, Myself & Irene."
  • C. Willa Brown
    Willa Brown was a pioneering African American aviator, flight instructor, and civil rights advocate who became the first Black woman in the United States to earn both a pilot’s license and a commercial pilot’s license.
  • D. Edna Mae McCauley
    Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
  • E. Fannie N. Smith
    Fannie N. Smith was the first wife of African American educator and leader Booker T. Washington, with whom she shared the early years of his rise to prominence.
  • 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_6a085a15b7848190b55a1e8b52503690 completed May 16, 2026, 11:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a085a6a94e88190a3f2f2cf89013d44 completed May 16, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a085aca03748190b3d0544ebda3b8a7 completed May 16, 2026, 11:53 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:40 p.m.