Triple
T9113740
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Ford |
E218667
|
entity |
| Predicate | firstAppearance |
P795
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Twelve Years a Slave (1853 memoir) |
E780763
|
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: Twelve Years a Slave (1853 memoir) | Statement: [William Ford, firstAppearance, Twelve Years a Slave (1853 memoir)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Twelve Years a Slave (1853 memoir) Context triple: [William Ford, firstAppearance, Twelve Years a Slave (1853 memoir)]
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A.
Twelve Years a Slave (1853 book)
chosen
Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup recounting his kidnapping as a free Black man and subsequent twelve years of enslavement in the American South.
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B.
Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America
Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America is a 19th-century slave narrative memoir in which Moses Grandy recounts his experiences of enslavement and eventual freedom, contributing to the abolitionist movement.
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C.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" is a landmark 1845 autobiography that powerfully recounts Douglass’s experiences in slavery and his journey to freedom, becoming a foundational work of American abolitionist literature.
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D.
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a hip-hop production collective known for crafting gritty, sample-heavy beats for early 1990s West Coast rap artists.
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E.
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad is a historical drama television series, based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, that reimagines the network that helped enslaved people escape as a literal subterranean train system.
- 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_69ca83dc94ac8190b9ef42684d36ff39 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cca84c209c8190b082a9b8499bedf7 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 5:08 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d05bf002c081909bb82bb765bbf4b1 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 12:31 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:16 p.m.