Triple

T1395904
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject W. E. B. Du Bois E30664 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Philadelphia Negro
The Philadelphia Negro is W. E. B. Du Bois’s pioneering sociological study of African American life in Philadelphia, widely regarded as one of the first major empirical works in American urban sociology and race relations.
E160393 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 Philadelphia Negro | Statement: [W. E. B. Du Bois, notableWork, The Philadelphia Negro]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Philadelphia Negro
Context triple: [W. E. B. Du Bois, notableWork, The Philadelphia Negro]
  • A. Twenty Years at Hull-House
    Twenty Years at Hull-House is Jane Addams’s influential autobiographical account of her pioneering social reform work and the development of the Hull House settlement in Chicago.
  • B. Slums and Suburbs
    Slums and Suburbs is an influential work by educator James B. Conant examining educational inequality and the social divide between impoverished urban areas and more affluent suburban communities in mid-20th-century America.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. State of Black America report
    The State of Black America report is an annual publication by the National Urban League that assesses and highlights the social, economic, and political conditions facing Black Americans in the United States.
  • 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 Philadelphia Negro
Triple: [W. E. B. Du Bois, notableWork, The Philadelphia Negro]
Generated description
The Philadelphia Negro is W. E. B. Du Bois’s pioneering sociological study of African American life in Philadelphia, widely regarded as one of the first major empirical works in American urban sociology and race relations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Philadelphia Negro
Target entity description: The Philadelphia Negro is W. E. B. Du Bois’s pioneering sociological study of African American life in Philadelphia, widely regarded as one of the first major empirical works in American urban sociology and race relations.
  • A. Twenty Years at Hull-House
    Twenty Years at Hull-House is Jane Addams’s influential autobiographical account of her pioneering social reform work and the development of the Hull House settlement in Chicago.
  • B. Slums and Suburbs
    Slums and Suburbs is an influential work by educator James B. Conant examining educational inequality and the social divide between impoverished urban areas and more affluent suburban communities in mid-20th-century America.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. State of Black America report
    The State of Black America report is an annual publication by the National Urban League that assesses and highlights the social, economic, and political conditions facing Black Americans in the United States.
  • 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.