Triple

T20543971
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roderick Alleyn series E504416 entity
Predicate hasWork P6260 FINISHED
Object Black As He's Painted
Black As He's Painted is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh in the Roderick Alleyn series, involving a politically charged murder case linked to an African president visiting London.
E1437300 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: Black As He's Painted | Statement: [Roderick Alleyn series, hasWork, Black As He's Painted]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Black As He's Painted
Context triple: [Roderick Alleyn series, hasWork, Black As He's Painted]
  • A. Blue-Eyed Black Boy
    Blue-Eyed Black Boy is a one-act anti-lynching play by Harlem Renaissance writer Georgia Douglas Johnson that confronts racial violence and injustice in the American South.
  • B. Black As I Am
    "Black As I Am" is a poetry collection by South African writer and activist Zindzi Mandela that reflects on Black identity, resistance, and the anti-apartheid struggle.
  • C. Black Is the Colour
    Black Is the Colour is a traditional folk song, best known in its Appalachian and Celtic variants, that expresses longing and devotion for a distant lover.
  • D. Portrait in Black
    Portrait in Black is a 1960 American film noir–style melodrama about adultery and murder, co-written by screenwriter Ivan Goff and starring Lana Turner and Anthony Quinn.
  • E. Black Man’s Verse
    Black Man’s Verse is a 1935 poetry collection by African American writer and activist Frank Marshall Davis that explores Black life, racial injustice, and social struggle in the United States.
  • 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: Black As He's Painted
Triple: [Roderick Alleyn series, hasWork, Black As He's Painted]
Generated description
Black As He's Painted is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh in the Roderick Alleyn series, involving a politically charged murder case linked to an African president visiting London.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Black As He's Painted
Target entity description: Black As He's Painted is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh in the Roderick Alleyn series, involving a politically charged murder case linked to an African president visiting London.
  • A. Blue-Eyed Black Boy
    Blue-Eyed Black Boy is a one-act anti-lynching play by Harlem Renaissance writer Georgia Douglas Johnson that confronts racial violence and injustice in the American South.
  • B. Black As I Am
    "Black As I Am" is a poetry collection by South African writer and activist Zindzi Mandela that reflects on Black identity, resistance, and the anti-apartheid struggle.
  • C. Black Is the Colour
    Black Is the Colour is a traditional folk song, best known in its Appalachian and Celtic variants, that expresses longing and devotion for a distant lover.
  • D. Portrait in Black
    Portrait in Black is a 1960 American film noir–style melodrama about adultery and murder, co-written by screenwriter Ivan Goff and starring Lana Turner and Anthony Quinn.
  • E. Black Man’s Verse
    Black Man’s Verse is a 1935 poetry collection by African American writer and activist Frank Marshall Davis that explores Black life, racial injustice, and social struggle in the United States.
  • 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_69e0b4b476648190bc6019622ae54d3c completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6a2957c308190aab81127f82f8aa6 completed April 20, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08a56d914c819093105dfbeef686f7 completed May 16, 2026, 5:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08a66836d88190a63b42663455e491 completed May 16, 2026, 5:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08a6e4bd1c8190969cf969812a2e56 completed May 16, 2026, 5:18 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:38 a.m.