Triple
T10205960
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Edward Ball |
E242194
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Life of a Klansman
Life of a Klansman is a nonfiction book by Edward Ball that investigates his own family’s ties to the Ku Klux Klan and explores the broader history of white supremacy in the American South.
|
E849688
|
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: Life of a Klansman | Statement: [Edward Ball, notableWork, Life of a Klansman]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life of a Klansman Context triple: [Edward Ball, notableWork, Life of a Klansman]
-
A.
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist, neo-Nazi organization led for a time by David Duke that promotes racist, antisemitic, and extremist ideologies.
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B.
KLAN
KLAN is the ICAO airport code for Capital Region International Airport, a public airport serving the Lansing, Michigan area in the United States.
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C.
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a 1905 white supremacist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. that glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and provided the basis for D. W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation.
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D.
The Man Who Killed Jim Crow
"The Man Who Killed Jim Crow" is the honorific nickname given to pioneering civil rights lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston, whose legal strategy and mentorship laid the groundwork for dismantling racial segregation in the United States.
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E.
The KKK Took My Baby Away
"The KKK Took My Baby Away" is a punk rock song by the Ramones, known for its catchy melody and darkly humorous lyrics about a lover being taken away.
- 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: Life of a Klansman Triple: [Edward Ball, notableWork, Life of a Klansman]
Generated description
Life of a Klansman is a nonfiction book by Edward Ball that investigates his own family’s ties to the Ku Klux Klan and explores the broader history of white supremacy in the American South.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life of a Klansman Target entity description: Life of a Klansman is a nonfiction book by Edward Ball that investigates his own family’s ties to the Ku Klux Klan and explores the broader history of white supremacy in the American South.
-
A.
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist, neo-Nazi organization led for a time by David Duke that promotes racist, antisemitic, and extremist ideologies.
-
B.
KLAN
KLAN is the ICAO airport code for Capital Region International Airport, a public airport serving the Lansing, Michigan area in the United States.
-
C.
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a 1905 white supremacist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. that glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and provided the basis for D. W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation.
-
D.
The Man Who Killed Jim Crow
"The Man Who Killed Jim Crow" is the honorific nickname given to pioneering civil rights lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston, whose legal strategy and mentorship laid the groundwork for dismantling racial segregation in the United States.
-
E.
The KKK Took My Baby Away
"The KKK Took My Baby Away" is a punk rock song by the Ramones, known for its catchy melody and darkly humorous lyrics about a lover being taken away.
- 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_69d381ae26c48190985abd0e25ee5d04 |
completed | April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d395f6298c8190a4a0ad9770f10e80 |
completed | April 6, 2026, 11:16 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d652b489608190b844e1199e6126ce |
completed | April 8, 2026, 1:05 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69d657256a8481909f0bd1941b937bb0 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 1:24 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69d6576b2c0081909cf4bc502778e875 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 1:26 p.m. |
Created at: April 6, 2026, 10:50 a.m.