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 NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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.
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 (2 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.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 3:31 p.m.