Triple

T2594536
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mary White Ovington E58196 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York
"Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York" is a 1911 sociological study by Mary White Ovington that examines the living conditions, discrimination, and social status of African Americans in early 20th-century New York City.
E281690 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: Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York | Statement: [Mary White Ovington, notableWork, Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York
Context triple: [Mary White Ovington, notableWork, Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York]
  • A. The New Negro (anthology)
    The New Negro is a landmark 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke that helped define and propel the Harlem Renaissance by showcasing the literature, art, and thought of a new generation of Black American creators.
  • B. The Philadelphia Negro
    The Philadelphia Negro is W. E. B. Du Bois’s pioneering sociological study of African American life in Philadelphia, widely regarded as one of the first major empirical works in American urban sociology and race relations.
  • C. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
    The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a 1912 novel by James Weldon Johnson that explores race, identity, and passing in early 20th-century America through the life story of a mixed-race narrator.
  • D. Harlem's Nocturne
    "Harlem's Nocturne" is the atmospheric, piano-driven opening track by Alicia Keys that sets a soulful, introspective tone for her album "The Diary of Alicia Keys."
  • E. Negro Life at the South
    "Negro Life at the South" is an 1859 genre painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts the everyday lives of enslaved African Americans in a Washington, D.C. backyard, offering a complex, nuanced view of slavery on the eve of the Civil War.
  • 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: Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York
Triple: [Mary White Ovington, notableWork, Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York]
Generated description
"Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York" is a 1911 sociological study by Mary White Ovington that examines the living conditions, discrimination, and social status of African Americans in early 20th-century New York City.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York
Target entity description: "Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York" is a 1911 sociological study by Mary White Ovington that examines the living conditions, discrimination, and social status of African Americans in early 20th-century New York City.
  • A. The New Negro (anthology)
    The New Negro is a landmark 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke that helped define and propel the Harlem Renaissance by showcasing the literature, art, and thought of a new generation of Black American creators.
  • B. The Philadelphia Negro
    The Philadelphia Negro is W. E. B. Du Bois’s pioneering sociological study of African American life in Philadelphia, widely regarded as one of the first major empirical works in American urban sociology and race relations.
  • C. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
    The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a 1912 novel by James Weldon Johnson that explores race, identity, and passing in early 20th-century America through the life story of a mixed-race narrator.
  • D. Harlem's Nocturne
    "Harlem's Nocturne" is the atmospheric, piano-driven opening track by Alicia Keys that sets a soulful, introspective tone for her album "The Diary of Alicia Keys."
  • E. Negro Life at the South
    "Negro Life at the South" is an 1859 genre painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts the everyday lives of enslaved African Americans in a Washington, D.C. backyard, offering a complex, nuanced view of slavery on the eve of the Civil War.
  • 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_69ab4ac14040819098b13f4a27d5c8ff completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd427f58c8190af1c1a9724158c96 completed March 7, 2026, 7:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af83c3607c81908bb4aceca46c5392 completed March 10, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af84a08ffc8190b113d07f3d322d0c completed March 10, 2026, 2:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af85a052448190898ee1a2f8368122 completed March 10, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:49 p.m.