Triple

T14649386
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject African American Lives E343937 entity
Predicate relatedTo P37 FINISHED
Object Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a PBS documentary series in which historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the genealogical and genetic histories of celebrities and public figures to illuminate broader themes of identity, ancestry, and American history.
E1112106 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: Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Statement: [African American Lives, relatedTo, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Context triple: [African American Lives, relatedTo, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.]
  • A. Roots (2016 miniseries)
    Roots (2016 miniseries) is a 2016 television adaptation of Alex Haley’s landmark novel tracing multiple generations of an African American family from enslavement to emancipation.
  • B. In Search of Our Roots
    In Search of Our Roots is a book by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that traces the genealogical and historical journeys of prominent African Americans to explore ancestry, identity, and the legacy of slavery.
  • C. Roots: The Saga of an American Family
    Roots: The Saga of an American Family is Alex Haley’s landmark 1976 historical novel that traces multiple generations of an African American family from their origins in West Africa through slavery and beyond in the United States.
  • D. American Experience
    American Experience is a long-running PBS documentary television series that explores significant events and figures in American history.
  • E. American Masters
    American Masters is a long-running PBS documentary series that profiles influential figures in American culture, arts, and history.
  • 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: Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Triple: [African American Lives, relatedTo, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.]
Generated description
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a PBS documentary series in which historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the genealogical and genetic histories of celebrities and public figures to illuminate broader themes of identity, ancestry, and American history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Target entity description: Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a PBS documentary series in which historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the genealogical and genetic histories of celebrities and public figures to illuminate broader themes of identity, ancestry, and American history.
  • A. Roots (2016 miniseries)
    Roots (2016 miniseries) is a 2016 television adaptation of Alex Haley’s landmark novel tracing multiple generations of an African American family from enslavement to emancipation.
  • B. In Search of Our Roots
    In Search of Our Roots is a book by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that traces the genealogical and historical journeys of prominent African Americans to explore ancestry, identity, and the legacy of slavery.
  • C. Roots: The Saga of an American Family
    Roots: The Saga of an American Family is Alex Haley’s landmark 1976 historical novel that traces multiple generations of an African American family from their origins in West Africa through slavery and beyond in the United States.
  • D. American Experience
    American Experience is a long-running PBS documentary television series that explores significant events and figures in American history.
  • E. American Masters
    American Masters is a long-running PBS documentary series that profiles influential figures in American culture, arts, and history.
  • 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_69d822e1a2cc81908e5bb93cf61ce3cc completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb4ed037c8190a87bf43f839fec05 completed April 14, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fdd5d9ab188190934deb57fd6d9a56 completed May 8, 2026, 12:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fdd6b2f6148190bb91d55833308d5f completed May 8, 2026, 12:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fdd77fdc608190a89e4dbf5ce4b695 completed May 8, 2026, 12:30 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:26 a.m.