Triple

T7181236
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shirley Graham Du Bois E167450 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro
"Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro" is a 1932 opera by Shirley Graham Du Bois that dramatizes African and African American history and culture through a fusion of classical, spiritual, jazz, and African musical forms.
E647255 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: Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro | Statement: [Shirley Graham Du Bois, notableWork, Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro
Context triple: [Shirley Graham Du Bois, notableWork, Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro]
  • A. Five Great American Negroes
    Five Great American Negroes is a celebrated artwork by Charles White that honors prominent African American historical figures and their contributions to U.S. history.
  • B. Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life
    "Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life" is a 1929 play co-written by Wallace Thurman that dramatizes the struggles, aspirations, and social tensions of African American life in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance.
  • C. Blues People
    Blues People is a seminal 1963 work of cultural criticism by Amiri Baraka that traces the history of African American music as a lens on Black experience and U.S. social history.
  • D. Of the Sorrow Songs
    "Of the Sorrow Songs" is the concluding chapter of W.E.B. Du Bois's seminal work that reflects on the spirituals of enslaved African Americans as profound expressions of their history, suffering, and hope.
  • E. The Weary Blues
    The Weary Blues is a landmark 1926 poetry collection by Langston Hughes that helped define the voice and themes of the Harlem Renaissance.
  • 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: Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro
Triple: [Shirley Graham Du Bois, notableWork, Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro]
Generated description
"Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro" is a 1932 opera by Shirley Graham Du Bois that dramatizes African and African American history and culture through a fusion of classical, spiritual, jazz, and African musical forms.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro
Target entity description: "Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro" is a 1932 opera by Shirley Graham Du Bois that dramatizes African and African American history and culture through a fusion of classical, spiritual, jazz, and African musical forms.
  • A. Five Great American Negroes
    Five Great American Negroes is a celebrated artwork by Charles White that honors prominent African American historical figures and their contributions to U.S. history.
  • B. Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life
    "Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life" is a 1929 play co-written by Wallace Thurman that dramatizes the struggles, aspirations, and social tensions of African American life in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance.
  • C. Blues People
    Blues People is a seminal 1963 work of cultural criticism by Amiri Baraka that traces the history of African American music as a lens on Black experience and U.S. social history.
  • D. Of the Sorrow Songs
    "Of the Sorrow Songs" is the concluding chapter of W.E.B. Du Bois's seminal work that reflects on the spirituals of enslaved African Americans as profound expressions of their history, suffering, and hope.
  • E. The Weary Blues
    The Weary Blues is a landmark 1926 poetry collection by Langston Hughes that helped define the voice and themes of the Harlem Renaissance.
  • 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_69c6888a7c548190a3d39b52a393080f completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e8bc25088190a7d7f3ba2461b5e9 completed March 27, 2026, 8:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7b93d04ec8190ac5c5bf9ace7eca1 completed March 28, 2026, 11:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7b9e55f84819099af471a65bb68aa completed March 28, 2026, 11:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7ba9317548190946e21c2731d58a7 completed March 28, 2026, 11:25 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:49 p.m.