Triple

T1395903
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject W. E. B. Du Bois E30664 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Black Reconstruction in America
Black Reconstruction in America is W. E. B. Du Bois’s landmark historical study that reinterprets the Reconstruction era as a period of Black political agency and class struggle, challenging dominant racist narratives in U.S. historiography.
E160392 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: Black Reconstruction in America | Statement: [W. E. B. Du Bois, notableWork, Black Reconstruction in America]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Black Reconstruction in America
Context triple: [W. E. B. Du Bois, notableWork, Black Reconstruction in America]
  • A. A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
    A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States is a mid-19th-century travel narrative and social commentary that examines the economy, society, and conditions of slavery in the American South.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
    Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is the third and most comprehensive autobiography of the famed abolitionist and orator, chronicling his life from enslavement through his later political and diplomatic career.
  • 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: Black Reconstruction in America
Triple: [W. E. B. Du Bois, notableWork, Black Reconstruction in America]
Generated description
Black Reconstruction in America is W. E. B. Du Bois’s landmark historical study that reinterprets the Reconstruction era as a period of Black political agency and class struggle, challenging dominant racist narratives in U.S. historiography.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Black Reconstruction in America
Target entity description: Black Reconstruction in America is W. E. B. Du Bois’s landmark historical study that reinterprets the Reconstruction era as a period of Black political agency and class struggle, challenging dominant racist narratives in U.S. historiography.
  • A. A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
    A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States is a mid-19th-century travel narrative and social commentary that examines the economy, society, and conditions of slavery in the American South.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
    Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is the third and most comprehensive autobiography of the famed abolitionist and orator, chronicling his life from enslavement through his later political and diplomatic career.
  • 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_69a498fd4e408190bd73eca30ea9754c completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c37fd6e0819084d610ef041db3af completed March 1, 2026, 10:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acde310f748190a5c58caf4fbaa5c5 completed March 8, 2026, 2:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acdee073fc819098c906d91870b317 completed March 8, 2026, 2:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ace0a7ddc08190a44be1707587351b completed March 8, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.