Triple

T11532250
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tressie McMillan Cottom E273450 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Thick: And Other Essays
Thick: And Other Essays is a critically acclaimed collection of essays by sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom that explores race, gender, class, and power in contemporary America through sharp cultural critique and personal narrative.
E931187 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: Thick: And Other Essays | Statement: [Tressie McMillan Cottom, notableWork, Thick: And Other Essays]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thick: And Other Essays
Context triple: [Tressie McMillan Cottom, notableWork, Thick: And Other Essays]
  • A. Surviving and Other Essays
    Surviving and Other Essays is a collection of psychological and autobiographical essays by Bruno Bettelheim reflecting on trauma, survival, and the human condition.
  • B. Less Than One: Selected Essays
    Less Than One: Selected Essays is a celebrated collection of autobiographical and literary essays by Nobel Prize–winning poet Joseph Brodsky, reflecting on exile, Russian literature, and the moral responsibilities of the writer.
  • C. Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic
    Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic is a reflective collection of early pastoral journals and theological insights by American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.
  • D. Oneself as Another
    "Oneself as Another" is a major philosophical work by Paul Ricoeur that explores personal identity, selfhood, and ethics through the lens of narrative and hermeneutic phenomenology.
  • E. Letters to a Young Contrarian
    Letters to a Young Contrarian is a book by Christopher Hitchens that offers guidance on independent thinking, skepticism, and principled dissent through a series of reflective essays.
  • 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: Thick: And Other Essays
Triple: [Tressie McMillan Cottom, notableWork, Thick: And Other Essays]
Generated description
Thick: And Other Essays is a critically acclaimed collection of essays by sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom that explores race, gender, class, and power in contemporary America through sharp cultural critique and personal narrative.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thick: And Other Essays
Target entity description: Thick: And Other Essays is a critically acclaimed collection of essays by sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom that explores race, gender, class, and power in contemporary America through sharp cultural critique and personal narrative.
  • A. Surviving and Other Essays
    Surviving and Other Essays is a collection of psychological and autobiographical essays by Bruno Bettelheim reflecting on trauma, survival, and the human condition.
  • B. Less Than One: Selected Essays
    Less Than One: Selected Essays is a celebrated collection of autobiographical and literary essays by Nobel Prize–winning poet Joseph Brodsky, reflecting on exile, Russian literature, and the moral responsibilities of the writer.
  • C. Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic
    Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic is a reflective collection of early pastoral journals and theological insights by American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.
  • D. Oneself as Another
    "Oneself as Another" is a major philosophical work by Paul Ricoeur that explores personal identity, selfhood, and ethics through the lens of narrative and hermeneutic phenomenology.
  • E. Letters to a Young Contrarian
    Letters to a Young Contrarian is a book by Christopher Hitchens that offers guidance on independent thinking, skepticism, and principled dissent through a series of reflective essays.
  • 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_69d6aae3fbec8190a14632a5df2538b6 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8839a2c7081909c285d1f6beb971c completed April 10, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e68577f5ec8190a46687119d288a36 completed April 20, 2026, 7:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e68fd8210c8190a7b0bbd8a50ff6b1 completed April 20, 2026, 8:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e69f12cfcc8190a06e0922c9faa49e completed April 20, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:37 p.m.