Triple

T5228715
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roots E118055 entity
Predicate notableCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object Kunta Kinte
Kunta Kinte is a central fictionalized African ancestor in Alex Haley’s novel and television miniseries "Roots," symbolizing the brutality of slavery and the resilience of Black identity.
E505938 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: Kunta Kinte | Statement: [Roots, notableCharacter, Kunta Kinte]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kunta Kinte
Context triple: [Roots, notableCharacter, Kunta Kinte]
  • A. Countee
    Countee is the given name of Countee Cullen, a prominent African American poet associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
  • B. William Adama
    William Adama is the steadfast, morally driven commander of the last surviving human warship in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series, leading humanity’s fight for survival against the Cylons.
  • C. Samori Coates
    Samori Coates is the son of American author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, often referenced in his father's writings on race, history, and fatherhood.
  • D. Vin Tanner
    Vin Tanner is a laconic, skilled gunfighter and one of the seven hired protectors in the classic Western film "The Magnificent Seven" (1960).
  • E. Chevalier de Drucour
    Chevalier de Drucour was a French naval officer and colonial governor best known for leading the defense of Louisbourg during the Seven Years' 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: Kunta Kinte
Triple: [Roots, notableCharacter, Kunta Kinte]
Generated description
Kunta Kinte is a central fictionalized African ancestor in Alex Haley’s novel and television miniseries "Roots," symbolizing the brutality of slavery and the resilience of Black identity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kunta Kinte
Target entity description: Kunta Kinte is a central fictionalized African ancestor in Alex Haley’s novel and television miniseries "Roots," symbolizing the brutality of slavery and the resilience of Black identity.
  • A. Countee
    Countee is the given name of Countee Cullen, a prominent African American poet associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
  • B. William Adama
    William Adama is the steadfast, morally driven commander of the last surviving human warship in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series, leading humanity’s fight for survival against the Cylons.
  • C. Samori Coates
    Samori Coates is the son of American author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, often referenced in his father's writings on race, history, and fatherhood.
  • D. Vin Tanner
    Vin Tanner is a laconic, skilled gunfighter and one of the seven hired protectors in the classic Western film "The Magnificent Seven" (1960).
  • E. Chevalier de Drucour
    Chevalier de Drucour was a French naval officer and colonial governor best known for leading the defense of Louisbourg during the Seven Years' 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_69bd4466fb8c819083b806a79414d7e4 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7adee36881909b034b8735db9d67 completed March 20, 2026, 4:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bef80ca924819095bcc729feb0e464 completed March 21, 2026, 7:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bef8996a208190b9b84b297434c549 completed March 21, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bef935c2288190b2c66e25b8f065bd completed March 21, 2026, 8:01 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:48 p.m.