Triple

T2800686
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Songs My Grandma Sang E53145 entity
Predicate mainSubject P3 FINISHED
Object African American spirituals
African American spirituals are religious folk songs created by enslaved African Americans that blend Christian themes with African musical traditions and served as expressions of faith, resistance, and hope.
E299967 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: African American spirituals | Statement: [Songs My Grandma Sang, mainSubject, African American spirituals]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: African American spirituals
Context triple: [Songs My Grandma Sang, mainSubject, African American spirituals]
  • A. Appalachian music
    Appalachian music is a traditional American folk style rooted in the rural Appalachian region, known for its ballads, fiddle and banjo tunes, and strong influence on later folk and country music.
  • B. From Spirituals to Swing concerts
    From Spirituals to Swing concerts were landmark late-1930s Carnegie Hall concerts that introduced wide audiences to African American spirituals, blues, and jazz, significantly shaping the popular and critical reception of these genres.
  • C. Soul music
    Soul music is a genre that blends gospel, rhythm and blues, and jazz influences into a deeply emotive, vocal-driven style that emerged in African American communities in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • D. African-American culture
    African-American culture is the rich, diverse set of traditions, artistic expressions, social practices, and values developed by African Americans that has profoundly shaped music, language, fashion, and popular culture in the United States and beyond.
  • E. Lift Every Voice and Sing
    "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a historic hymn often referred to as the Black national anthem in the United States, celebrating Black resilience, freedom, and hope.
  • 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: African American spirituals
Triple: [Songs My Grandma Sang, mainSubject, African American spirituals]
Generated description
African American spirituals are religious folk songs created by enslaved African Americans that blend Christian themes with African musical traditions and served as expressions of faith, resistance, and hope.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: African American spirituals
Target entity description: African American spirituals are religious folk songs created by enslaved African Americans that blend Christian themes with African musical traditions and served as expressions of faith, resistance, and hope.
  • A. Appalachian music
    Appalachian music is a traditional American folk style rooted in the rural Appalachian region, known for its ballads, fiddle and banjo tunes, and strong influence on later folk and country music.
  • B. From Spirituals to Swing concerts
    From Spirituals to Swing concerts were landmark late-1930s Carnegie Hall concerts that introduced wide audiences to African American spirituals, blues, and jazz, significantly shaping the popular and critical reception of these genres.
  • C. Soul music
    Soul music is a genre that blends gospel, rhythm and blues, and jazz influences into a deeply emotive, vocal-driven style that emerged in African American communities in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • D. African-American culture
    African-American culture is the rich, diverse set of traditions, artistic expressions, social practices, and values developed by African Americans that has profoundly shaped music, language, fashion, and popular culture in the United States and beyond.
  • E. Lift Every Voice and Sing
    "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a historic hymn often referred to as the Black national anthem in the United States, celebrating Black resilience, freedom, and hope.
  • 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_69ab495a90788190941b6917e1eca3a6 completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abddf4ca9c8190a4adfd1c1373af41 completed March 7, 2026, 8:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afc66ad9cc81908af6d3816a840c75 completed March 10, 2026, 7:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afc80ba2148190ae0c1f6425d52dfd completed March 10, 2026, 7:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afc97fc45481908aa72ac8607c34ac completed March 10, 2026, 7:34 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:58 p.m.