Triple

T19992292
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kwame Anthony Appiah E494091 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity
"Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity" is a scholarly work by philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah that examines W. E. B. Du Bois’s ideas about race, identity, and modernity and their impact on contemporary understandings of identity.
E1405279 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: Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity | Statement: [Kwame Anthony Appiah, notableWork, Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity
Context triple: [Kwame Anthony Appiah, notableWork, Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity]
  • A. the color line
    The color line is a sociological concept referring to the racial segregation and systemic division between Black and white people, especially in the United States, that W. E. B. Du Bois identified as a defining problem of the modern era.
  • B. An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept
    "An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept" is the subtitle of W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1940 work *Dusk of Dawn*, in which he reflects on his life and the evolving idea of race in American and global history.
  • C. Living Black History: How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America’s Racial Future
    "Living Black History: How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America’s Racial Future" is a scholarly work that examines how reinterpreting African-American history can inform and transform contemporary struggles for racial justice in the United States.
  • D. The Myth of the Negro Past
    The Myth of the Negro Past is a pioneering 1941 anthropological study by Melville J. Herskovits that challenged prevailing racist assumptions by documenting the enduring African cultural heritage among African Americans.
  • E. The Negro in American Civilization
    The Negro in American Civilization is a seminal sociological study by Charles S. Johnson that examines the historical, economic, and social conditions shaping African American life 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: Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity
Triple: [Kwame Anthony Appiah, notableWork, Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity]
Generated description
"Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity" is a scholarly work by philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah that examines W. E. B. Du Bois’s ideas about race, identity, and modernity and their impact on contemporary understandings of identity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity
Target entity description: "Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity" is a scholarly work by philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah that examines W. E. B. Du Bois’s ideas about race, identity, and modernity and their impact on contemporary understandings of identity.
  • A. the color line
    The color line is a sociological concept referring to the racial segregation and systemic division between Black and white people, especially in the United States, that W. E. B. Du Bois identified as a defining problem of the modern era.
  • B. An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept
    "An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept" is the subtitle of W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1940 work *Dusk of Dawn*, in which he reflects on his life and the evolving idea of race in American and global history.
  • C. Living Black History: How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America’s Racial Future
    "Living Black History: How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America’s Racial Future" is a scholarly work that examines how reinterpreting African-American history can inform and transform contemporary struggles for racial justice in the United States.
  • D. The Myth of the Negro Past
    The Myth of the Negro Past is a pioneering 1941 anthropological study by Melville J. Herskovits that challenged prevailing racist assumptions by documenting the enduring African cultural heritage among African Americans.
  • E. The Negro in American Civilization
    The Negro in American Civilization is a seminal sociological study by Charles S. Johnson that examines the historical, economic, and social conditions shaping African American life 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_69da626a67648190af9653832a3aeced completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e65fe10ffc81908c94168b0a8ea9c9 completed April 20, 2026, 5:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a080503f1bc8190b71f6d7043ac6593 completed May 16, 2026, 5:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0806563e1c8190b702fcfc009c84d5 completed May 16, 2026, 5:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0806e876c881909f0c30e5dd16ce20 completed May 16, 2026, 5:55 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 3:31 p.m.