Triple

T792398
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Melville J. Herskovits E16942 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Myth of the Negro Past
The Myth of the Negro Past is a pioneering 1941 anthropological study by Melville J. Herskovits that challenged prevailing racist assumptions by documenting the enduring African cultural heritage among African Americans.
E94092 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: The Myth of the Negro Past | Statement: [Melville J. Herskovits, notableWork, The Myth of the Negro Past]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Myth of the Negro Past
Context triple: [Melville J. Herskovits, notableWork, The Myth of the Negro Past]
  • A. Negro Life at the South
    "Negro Life at the South" is an 1859 genre painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts the everyday lives of enslaved African Americans in a Washington, D.C. backyard, offering a complex, nuanced view of slavery on the eve of the Civil War.
  • B. Negrismo
    Negrismo was an early 20th-century Afro-Caribbean literary and artistic movement that celebrated Black culture, language, and rhythms, particularly in Cuban and broader Hispanic Caribbean contexts.
  • C. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
    Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves is a multi-volume collection of first-person accounts by formerly enslaved people, compiled in the 1930s and 1940s and regarded as one of the most important primary sources on American slavery.
  • D. The New Negro (anthology)
    The New Negro is a landmark 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke that helped define and propel the Harlem Renaissance by showcasing the literature, art, and thought of a new generation of Black American creators.
  • E. Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing
    Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing is a landmark 1968 collection of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays by Black writers that helped define the aesthetics, politics, and cultural vision of the Black Arts Movement.
  • 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: The Myth of the Negro Past
Triple: [Melville J. Herskovits, notableWork, The Myth of the Negro Past]
Generated description
The Myth of the Negro Past is a pioneering 1941 anthropological study by Melville J. Herskovits that challenged prevailing racist assumptions by documenting the enduring African cultural heritage among African Americans.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Myth of the Negro Past
Target entity description: The Myth of the Negro Past is a pioneering 1941 anthropological study by Melville J. Herskovits that challenged prevailing racist assumptions by documenting the enduring African cultural heritage among African Americans.
  • A. Negro Life at the South
    "Negro Life at the South" is an 1859 genre painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts the everyday lives of enslaved African Americans in a Washington, D.C. backyard, offering a complex, nuanced view of slavery on the eve of the Civil War.
  • B. Negrismo
    Negrismo was an early 20th-century Afro-Caribbean literary and artistic movement that celebrated Black culture, language, and rhythms, particularly in Cuban and broader Hispanic Caribbean contexts.
  • C. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
    Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves is a multi-volume collection of first-person accounts by formerly enslaved people, compiled in the 1930s and 1940s and regarded as one of the most important primary sources on American slavery.
  • D. The New Negro (anthology)
    The New Negro is a landmark 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke that helped define and propel the Harlem Renaissance by showcasing the literature, art, and thought of a new generation of Black American creators.
  • E. Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing
    Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing is a landmark 1968 collection of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays by Black writers that helped define the aesthetics, politics, and cultural vision of the Black Arts Movement.
  • 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_69a4936cb7448190914f5fe4b8d81607 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a798c7608190b9c79c52a1fe0859 completed March 1, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a67880f9608190b0676eb47ea99ca1 completed March 3, 2026, 5:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a678f962c881909884c2af15f41d65 completed March 3, 2026, 6 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a67953f2bc8190bbbf8d4ae9c2c3bc completed March 3, 2026, 6:01 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.