Triple

T671146
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject African American literature E12972 entity
Predicate hasNotableAuthor P4244 FINISHED
Object W. E. B. Du Bois E30664 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: W. E. B. Du Bois | Statement: [African American literature, hasNotableAuthor, W. E. B. Du Bois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: W. E. B. Du Bois
Context triple: [African American literature, hasNotableAuthor, W. E. B. Du Bois]
  • A. W. E. B. Du Bois chosen
    W. E. B. Du Bois was an influential African American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP, renowned for his pioneering work on race and inequality.
  • B. Josiah E. DuBois Jr.
    Josiah E. DuBois Jr. was a U.S. Treasury Department lawyer and key Holocaust whistleblower whose efforts helped expose government inaction and led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.
  • C. Alain Locke
    Alain Locke was an American philosopher, writer, and educator often called the “Dean” of the Harlem Renaissance for his influential role in promoting African American art and literature.
  • D. James Weldon Johnson
    James Weldon Johnson was an influential African American writer, civil rights activist, and cultural leader whose poetry, novels, and leadership in the NAACP helped shape the Harlem Renaissance.
  • E. Reginald C. Lewis
    Reginald C. Lewis was an American professional basketball player who starred for the Boston Celtics in the late 1980s and early 1990s before his career was tragically cut short by his sudden death.
  • 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_69a493355dec819098d4244b2fa34885 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a021b908819086f7cfe65def4728 completed March 1, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5dc9d81c88190a2a722370a7fd658 completed March 2, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.