Triple

T14410751
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Arturo Alfonso Schomburg E357316 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object essay "The Negro Digs Up His Past"
"The Negro Digs Up His Past" is an influential essay by historian and bibliophile Arturo Alfonso Schomburg that argues for the recovery and celebration of Black history and cultural achievements as a foundation for racial pride and empowerment.
E1098172 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: essay "The Negro Digs Up His Past" | Statement: [Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, notableWork, essay "The Negro Digs Up His Past"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: essay "The Negro Digs Up His Past"
Context triple: [Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, notableWork, essay "The Negro Digs Up His Past"]
  • A. “The Negro and His Needs”
    “The Negro and His Needs” is a significant work by African American Presbyterian minister and civil rights advocate Francis James Grimké addressing the social, political, and spiritual challenges facing Black Americans in the post–Civil War era.
  • B. “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature”
    “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature” is a seminal critical essay by Toni Morrison that examines how Black writers and racialized perspectives have been marginalized, erased, and yet structurally central within the American literary canon.
  • 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. The Future of the American Negro
    "The Future of the American Negro" is an 1899 book by Booker T. Washington in which he outlines his views on African American progress through industrial education, self-help, and economic advancement in the post–Civil War United States.
  • E. Message to the Blackman in America
    Message to the Blackman in America is a foundational 1965 book by Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad that outlines his religious, social, and political teachings directed primarily toward African Americans.
  • 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: essay "The Negro Digs Up His Past"
Triple: [Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, notableWork, essay "The Negro Digs Up His Past"]
Generated description
"The Negro Digs Up His Past" is an influential essay by historian and bibliophile Arturo Alfonso Schomburg that argues for the recovery and celebration of Black history and cultural achievements as a foundation for racial pride and empowerment.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: essay "The Negro Digs Up His Past"
Target entity description: "The Negro Digs Up His Past" is an influential essay by historian and bibliophile Arturo Alfonso Schomburg that argues for the recovery and celebration of Black history and cultural achievements as a foundation for racial pride and empowerment.
  • A. “The Negro and His Needs”
    “The Negro and His Needs” is a significant work by African American Presbyterian minister and civil rights advocate Francis James Grimké addressing the social, political, and spiritual challenges facing Black Americans in the post–Civil War era.
  • B. “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature”
    “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature” is a seminal critical essay by Toni Morrison that examines how Black writers and racialized perspectives have been marginalized, erased, and yet structurally central within the American literary canon.
  • 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. The Future of the American Negro
    "The Future of the American Negro" is an 1899 book by Booker T. Washington in which he outlines his views on African American progress through industrial education, self-help, and economic advancement in the post–Civil War United States.
  • E. Message to the Blackman in America
    Message to the Blackman in America is a foundational 1965 book by Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad that outlines his religious, social, and political teachings directed primarily toward African Americans.
  • 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_69d82793421c8190861eb0e673b085de completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de90c9b3448190aec1608836a5e913 completed April 14, 2026, 7:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd55269d8c81909592277741a93db6 completed May 8, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd58216a8c8190b1fffcb670f15e16 completed May 8, 2026, 3:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd589144b8819099aadef126b8728f completed May 8, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:17 a.m.