Triple

T13979994
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Norton Anthology of African American Literature E336281 entity
Predicate editor P1954 FINISHED
Object George M. Fredrickson
George M. Fredrickson was a prominent American historian known for his influential comparative studies of racism and white supremacy in the United States and South Africa.
E1072276 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: George M. Fredrickson | Statement: [The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editor, George M. Fredrickson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George M. Fredrickson
Context triple: [The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editor, George M. Fredrickson]
  • A. John Hope Franklin
    John Hope Franklin was a pioneering American historian and civil rights advocate renowned for his groundbreaking scholarship on African American history and race in the United States.
  • B. Robin D. G. Kelley
    Robin D. G. Kelley is an American historian and scholar of African American history, radical social movements, and Black intellectual and cultural life.
  • C. C. Vann Woodward
    C. Vann Woodward was a prominent American historian best known for his influential works on the history of the American South and race relations in the United States.
  • D. Kenneth H. Jackson
    Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
  • E. Robert N. Wilentz
    Robert N. Wilentz was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1996.
  • 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: George M. Fredrickson
Triple: [The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editor, George M. Fredrickson]
Generated description
George M. Fredrickson was a prominent American historian known for his influential comparative studies of racism and white supremacy in the United States and South Africa.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George M. Fredrickson
Target entity description: George M. Fredrickson was a prominent American historian known for his influential comparative studies of racism and white supremacy in the United States and South Africa.
  • A. John Hope Franklin
    John Hope Franklin was a pioneering American historian and civil rights advocate renowned for his groundbreaking scholarship on African American history and race in the United States.
  • B. Robin D. G. Kelley
    Robin D. G. Kelley is an American historian and scholar of African American history, radical social movements, and Black intellectual and cultural life.
  • C. C. Vann Woodward
    C. Vann Woodward was a prominent American historian best known for his influential works on the history of the American South and race relations in the United States.
  • D. Kenneth H. Jackson
    Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
  • E. Robert N. Wilentz
    Robert N. Wilentz was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1996.
  • 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_69d81c639e808190a0e4b4f3d31c6a59 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de2ea10dc88190b9720919a021e570 completed April 14, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fba1e3cafc8190a1806a29b2e46ae9 completed May 6, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fba74a96b08190a08c51c231e49e5d completed May 6, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fba8585fb08190998d6a005dc0bd31 completed May 6, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:18 p.m.