Triple

T204045
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The American Empire Project E4570 entity
Predicate hasContributor P4244 FINISHED
Object Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn was an American historian, playwright, and social activist best known for his influential book "A People’s History of the United States," which presented U.S. history from the perspective of marginalized groups.
E27256 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: Howard Zinn | Statement: [The American Empire Project, hasContributor, Howard Zinn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Zinn
Context triple: [The American Empire Project, hasContributor, Howard Zinn]
  • A. Edward S. Herman
    Edward S. Herman was an American economist, media analyst, and critic of U.S. foreign policy best known for co-developing the "propaganda model" of the media.
  • B. J. O. Taylor
    J. O. Taylor was a cinematographer active during early Hollywood who worked on the landmark 1933 monster film "King Kong."
  • C. Kai Bird
    Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
  • D. Norman Finkelstein
    Norman Finkelstein is an American political scientist, author, and commentator known for his controversial critiques of Israeli policy and the politics surrounding the Holocaust.
  • E. Peter Gay
    Peter Gay was a German-born American historian and author best known for his influential works on the Enlightenment, the Victorian middle class, and the history of psychoanalysis.
  • 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: Howard Zinn
Triple: [The American Empire Project, hasContributor, Howard Zinn]
Generated description
Howard Zinn was an American historian, playwright, and social activist best known for his influential book "A People’s History of the United States," which presented U.S. history from the perspective of marginalized groups.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Zinn
Target entity description: Howard Zinn was an American historian, playwright, and social activist best known for his influential book "A People’s History of the United States," which presented U.S. history from the perspective of marginalized groups.
  • A. Edward S. Herman
    Edward S. Herman was an American economist, media analyst, and critic of U.S. foreign policy best known for co-developing the "propaganda model" of the media.
  • B. J. O. Taylor
    J. O. Taylor was a cinematographer active during early Hollywood who worked on the landmark 1933 monster film "King Kong."
  • C. Kai Bird
    Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
  • D. Norman Finkelstein
    Norman Finkelstein is an American political scientist, author, and commentator known for his controversial critiques of Israeli policy and the politics surrounding the Holocaust.
  • E. Peter Gay
    Peter Gay was a German-born American historian and author best known for his influential works on the Enlightenment, the Victorian middle class, and the history of psychoanalysis.
  • 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_69a25737567c81908f9c505300239181 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25be898ec8190b5e752a1d3b6f466 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a338e6c2bc81908fbc7402770ab35b completed Feb. 28, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a33b028fc481908a91d70289bd485a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a33b6580888190b3ebc9704f3e016a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:51 a.m.