Triple
T4311971
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Rebel Destiny: Among the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana |
E94095
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Melville J. Herskovits |
E16942
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Melville J. Herskovits | Statement: [Rebel Destiny: Among the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana, author, Melville J. Herskovits]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Melville J. Herskovits Context triple: [Rebel Destiny: Among the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana, author, Melville J. Herskovits]
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A.
Melville J. Herskovits
chosen
Melville J. Herskovits was an American anthropologist known for pioneering African and African diaspora studies and for challenging racial and cultural biases in social science.
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B.
Frances Shapiro Herskovits
Frances Shapiro Herskovits was an American anthropologist and collaborator known for her work alongside her husband Melville J. Herskovits in the development of cultural anthropology.
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C.
Lewis H. Morgan
Lewis H. Morgan was a pioneering 19th-century American anthropologist and social theorist whose studies of kinship and social evolution profoundly shaped later Marxist and anthropological thought.
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D.
Robert H. Lowie
Robert H. Lowie was a prominent early 20th-century American anthropologist known for his influential studies of Native American cultures and his contributions to cultural anthropology theory.
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E.
William Du Bois Duddell
William Du Bois Duddell was a British physicist and electrical engineer best known for his pioneering work on electrical oscillations and the invention of the "singing arc."
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69b3451886588190a3dd1305ea7c58dc |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:58 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b350d6cba08190a9440cee7b9dc40d |
completed | March 12, 2026, 11:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b613464adc8190bc82f599d30d7b13 |
completed | March 15, 2026, 2:02 a.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:11 p.m.