Triple

T1489086
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William James E29534 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object W. E. B. Du Bois E30664 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: W. E. B. Du Bois | Statement: [William James, influenced, W. E. B. Du Bois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: W. E. B. Du Bois
Context triple: [William James, influenced, W. E. B. Du Bois]
  • A. W. E. B. Du Bois chosen
    W. E. B. Du Bois was an influential African American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP, renowned for his pioneering work on race and inequality.
  • B. Josiah E. DuBois Jr.
    Josiah E. DuBois Jr. was a U.S. Treasury Department lawyer and key Holocaust whistleblower whose efforts helped expose government inaction and led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.
  • C. John Hope Franklin
    John Hope Franklin was a pioneering American historian and civil rights advocate renowned for his groundbreaking scholarship on African American history and race in the United States.
  • D. Arthur B. Spingarn
    Arthur B. Spingarn was an American lawyer, civil rights leader, and prominent collector of African American literature and history whose extensive archives helped lay the foundation for major Black studies research collections.
  • E. Alain Locke
    Alain Locke was an American philosopher, writer, and educator often called the “Dean” of the Harlem Renaissance for his influential role in promoting African American art and literature.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69a498da82e08190ba833330d05f380f completed March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c6a6095481909e9d406ac9a41828 completed March 1, 2026, 11:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad1ca7804c8190b6818ff344908028 completed March 8, 2026, 6:52 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:12 p.m.