Triple

T1140638
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Birth of a Nation E23441 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object 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.
 E129632 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 Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan | Statement: [The Birth of a Nation, basedOn, The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
Context triple: [The Birth of a Nation, basedOn, The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan]
  • A. The Birth of a Nation
    The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith, notorious for its racist portrayal of African Americans, glorification of the Ku Klux Klan, and foundational role in both cinematic history and white supremacist propaganda.
  • B. The Ox-Bow Incident
    The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1943 American Western film noir about a lynch mob’s rush to judgment, renowned for its stark moral themes and powerful performances.
  • C. One of Ours
    One of Ours is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 1922 novel by Willa Cather that follows a young Nebraskan man's search for purpose culminating in his experiences as a soldier in World War I.
  • D. Trial of the Twenty-One
    The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
  • E. Light of the South
    Light of the South is the English rendering of the Japanese name given to Singapore during its World War II occupation.
  • 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 Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
Triple: [The Birth of a Nation, basedOn, The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. The Birth of a Nation
    The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith, notorious for its racist portrayal of African Americans, glorification of the Ku Klux Klan, and foundational role in both cinematic history and white supremacist propaganda.
  • B. The Ox-Bow Incident
    The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1943 American Western film noir about a lynch mob’s rush to judgment, renowned for its stark moral themes and powerful performances.
  • C. One of Ours
    One of Ours is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 1922 novel by Willa Cather that follows a young Nebraskan man's search for purpose culminating in his experiences as a soldier in World War I.
  • D. Trial of the Twenty-One
    The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
  • E. Light of the South
    Light of the South is the English rendering of the Japanese name given to Singapore during its World War II occupation.
  • 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_69a493ef399c8190b04b9146d2314f59 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bc290ae08190afbf7e7ea2100d9e completed March 1, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac59b020d48190bc6ecbdb720c6779 completed March 7, 2026, 5 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac5a7599048190a46b0d560270ffa4 completed March 7, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac5af24a948190a37c832508149a48 completed March 7, 2026, 5:05 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.