Triple

T13150892
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject W. Kamau Bell E312462 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object United Shades of America
United Shades of America is a documentary-style television series in which comedian and political commentator W. Kamau Bell explores diverse communities and social issues across the United States.
E1023929 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: United Shades of America | Statement: [W. Kamau Bell, notableWork, United Shades of America]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United Shades of America
Context triple: [W. Kamau Bell, notableWork, United Shades of America]
  • A. America in Color
    America in Color is a Smithsonian Channel documentary series that uses restored and colorized archival footage to vividly depict key events and eras in 20th-century American history.
  • B. The American Side
    The American Side is a mystery thriller film centered on a private investigator who uncovers a conspiracy involving a lost invention by Nikola Tesla.
  • C. The Making of Americans
    The Making of Americans is an experimental modernist novel by Gertrude Stein that traces the history and psychology of an American family through highly repetitive, innovative prose.
  • D. Two Americas
    Two Americas is a political theme popularized by John Edwards to highlight the stark economic and social inequality between wealthy and struggling Americans.
  • E. The State Between Us
    The State Between Us is a politically charged 2019 concept album by experimental British musician and producer Matthew Herbert that explores themes of borders, nationalism, and Brexit through large-scale orchestral and choral arrangements.
  • 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: United Shades of America
Triple: [W. Kamau Bell, notableWork, United Shades of America]
Generated description
United Shades of America is a documentary-style television series in which comedian and political commentator W. Kamau Bell explores diverse communities and social issues across the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United Shades of America
Target entity description: United Shades of America is a documentary-style television series in which comedian and political commentator W. Kamau Bell explores diverse communities and social issues across the United States.
  • A. America in Color
    America in Color is a Smithsonian Channel documentary series that uses restored and colorized archival footage to vividly depict key events and eras in 20th-century American history.
  • B. The American Side
    The American Side is a mystery thriller film centered on a private investigator who uncovers a conspiracy involving a lost invention by Nikola Tesla.
  • C. The Making of Americans
    The Making of Americans is an experimental modernist novel by Gertrude Stein that traces the history and psychology of an American family through highly repetitive, innovative prose.
  • D. Two Americas
    Two Americas is a political theme popularized by John Edwards to highlight the stark economic and social inequality between wealthy and struggling Americans.
  • E. The State Between Us
    The State Between Us is a politically charged 2019 concept album by experimental British musician and producer Matthew Herbert that explores themes of borders, nationalism, and Brexit through large-scale orchestral and choral arrangements.
  • 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_69d806aabde48190899e13e41659cae5 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98bd1fc408190b4b5ca973bcee403 completed April 10, 2026, 11:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6eaea3f888190b47ed7bf1c52e7e7 completed May 3, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6eedfd06c8190b6fe8055e54ca322 completed May 3, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6ef7479a881909abf6caa21bdcc86 completed May 3, 2026, 6:47 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:11 p.m.