Triple
T1009290
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ibram X. Kendi |
E21783
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 is a collaborative volume edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain that presents 400 years of African American history through short essays and poems by a diverse group of writers.
|
E122407
|
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: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 | Statement: [Ibram X. Kendi, notableWork, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 Context triple: [Ibram X. Kendi, notableWork, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019]
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A.
Between the World and Me
"Between the World and Me" is a critically acclaimed nonfiction book by Ta-Nehisi Coates that reflects on race, identity, and the Black experience in America through a personal letter to his son.
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B.
The Warmth of Other Suns
The Warmth of Other Suns is Isabel Wilkerson’s acclaimed historical study that traces the lives and journeys of African Americans who left the Jim Crow South for the North and West in the 20th century.
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C.
Black America Again
Black America Again is a socially conscious hip-hop album by Common that addresses systemic racism, black identity, and political resistance in contemporary America.
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D.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves is a multi-volume collection of first-person accounts by formerly enslaved people, compiled in the 1930s and 1940s and regarded as one of the most important primary sources on American slavery.
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E.
The Beautiful Struggle
The Beautiful Struggle is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s coming-of-age memoir about growing up in Baltimore amid violence, hip-hop culture, and his father’s Black nationalist ideals.
- 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: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 Triple: [Ibram X. Kendi, notableWork, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019]
Generated description
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 is a collaborative volume edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain that presents 400 years of African American history through short essays and poems by a diverse group of writers.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 Target entity description: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 is a collaborative volume edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain that presents 400 years of African American history through short essays and poems by a diverse group of writers.
-
A.
Between the World and Me
"Between the World and Me" is a critically acclaimed nonfiction book by Ta-Nehisi Coates that reflects on race, identity, and the Black experience in America through a personal letter to his son.
-
B.
The Warmth of Other Suns
The Warmth of Other Suns is Isabel Wilkerson’s acclaimed historical study that traces the lives and journeys of African Americans who left the Jim Crow South for the North and West in the 20th century.
-
C.
Black America Again
Black America Again is a socially conscious hip-hop album by Common that addresses systemic racism, black identity, and political resistance in contemporary America.
-
D.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves is a multi-volume collection of first-person accounts by formerly enslaved people, compiled in the 1930s and 1940s and regarded as one of the most important primary sources on American slavery.
-
E.
The Beautiful Struggle
The Beautiful Struggle is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s coming-of-age memoir about growing up in Baltimore amid violence, hip-hop culture, and his father’s Black nationalist ideals.
- 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_69a493c53e648190ae8cb76c433fd9a7 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4b7a3cb608190a2de34a09cd55146 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:03 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac3ba9406c81909a13375fea05ee99 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 2:52 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ac3c0491788190b6a1f6d80c4b26ce |
completed | March 7, 2026, 2:53 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ac3cbb30d081909759df25c21eb275 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 2:56 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.