Triple

T22383868
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Diane Middlebrook E553342 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton is a biographical book by Diane Middlebrook that explores the life and posthumous revelation of American jazz musician Billy Tipton, who lived as a man despite being assigned female at birth.
E1534805 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: Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton | Statement: [Diane Middlebrook, notableWork, Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
Context triple: [Diane Middlebrook, notableWork, Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton]
  • A. Queen of the Blues
    Queen of the Blues is the honorific title given to legendary American Chicago blues singer Koko Taylor, renowned for her powerful, gritty vocal style.
  • B. Queen of the Blues
    Queen of the Blues is the celebrated nickname of American singer Dinah Washington, renowned for her powerful, emotive voice and influential recordings in blues, jazz, and R&B during the mid-20th century.
  • C. The Story of the Blues
    The Story of the Blues is a 1982 song by Pete Wylie’s band Wah! that became one of his best-known hits, blending post-punk and pop with reflective, socially conscious lyrics.
  • D. Mother of the Blues
    Mother of the Blues is the honorific nickname given to Ma Rainey, a pioneering early 20th-century American blues singer who helped shape and popularize the genre.
  • E. In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr.
    In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr. is a critically acclaimed biography by Wil Haygood that chronicles the complex life, career, and cultural impact of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.
  • 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: Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
Triple: [Diane Middlebrook, notableWork, Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton]
Generated description
Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton is a biographical book by Diane Middlebrook that explores the life and posthumous revelation of American jazz musician Billy Tipton, who lived as a man despite being assigned female at birth.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
Target entity description: Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton is a biographical book by Diane Middlebrook that explores the life and posthumous revelation of American jazz musician Billy Tipton, who lived as a man despite being assigned female at birth.
  • A. Queen of the Blues
    Queen of the Blues is the honorific title given to legendary American Chicago blues singer Koko Taylor, renowned for her powerful, gritty vocal style.
  • B. Queen of the Blues
    Queen of the Blues is the celebrated nickname of American singer Dinah Washington, renowned for her powerful, emotive voice and influential recordings in blues, jazz, and R&B during the mid-20th century.
  • C. The Story of the Blues
    The Story of the Blues is a 1982 song by Pete Wylie’s band Wah! that became one of his best-known hits, blending post-punk and pop with reflective, socially conscious lyrics.
  • D. Mother of the Blues
    Mother of the Blues is the honorific nickname given to Ma Rainey, a pioneering early 20th-century American blues singer who helped shape and popularize the genre.
  • E. In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr.
    In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr. is a critically acclaimed biography by Wil Haygood that chronicles the complex life, career, and cultural impact of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.
  • 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_69e11e4cf87c8190a1ff474daec326b7 completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1582d8e548190a7330de49d519675 completed April 29, 2026, 1 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0ae9bc28fc81908967105a7a34903e completed May 18, 2026, 10:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0aedd061408190a25b6b1773e6610a completed May 18, 2026, 10:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0aee8497b881909019717c6b9b4888 completed May 18, 2026, 10:48 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:45 p.m.