Triple

T16657712
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Syl Johnson E404774 entity
Predicate notableAlbum P4 FINISHED
Object Is It Because I'm Black (1969)
"Is It Because I'm Black" (1969) is a landmark soul and blues album by Syl Johnson that confronts racial injustice and social struggle with raw, politically charged lyrics and emotive vocals.
E1225636 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: Is It Because I'm Black (1969) | Statement: [Syl Johnson, notableAlbum, Is It Because I'm Black (1969)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Is It Because I'm Black (1969)
Context triple: [Syl Johnson, notableAlbum, Is It Because I'm Black (1969)]
  • A. Cotton Comes to Harlem
    Cotton Comes to Harlem is a 1970 blaxploitation comedy-crime film, directed by Ossie Davis, that follows two Harlem detectives investigating a con man's fraudulent back-to-Africa scheme.
  • B. To Be Young, Gifted and Black
    "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" is a civil rights-era anthem by Nina Simone that celebrates Black pride, resilience, and the potential of Black youth.
  • C. Cause I'm Black
    "Cause I'm Black" is a track by Super Gangster (Extraordinary Gentleman) that reflects the album’s gritty, street-oriented hip-hop style and themes of identity and struggle.
  • D. Proud to Be Black
    "Proud to Be Black" is a politically charged, pro-Black empowerment track by Run-D.M.C. that closes their influential 1986 hip hop album Raising Hell.
  • E. Black Like Me
    Black Like Me is a 1961 nonfiction book by John Howard Griffin that chronicles his journey through the racially segregated American South while passing as a Black man to expose the realities of racism.
  • 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: Is It Because I'm Black (1969)
Triple: [Syl Johnson, notableAlbum, Is It Because I'm Black (1969)]
Generated description
"Is It Because I'm Black" (1969) is a landmark soul and blues album by Syl Johnson that confronts racial injustice and social struggle with raw, politically charged lyrics and emotive vocals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Is It Because I'm Black (1969)
Target entity description: "Is It Because I'm Black" (1969) is a landmark soul and blues album by Syl Johnson that confronts racial injustice and social struggle with raw, politically charged lyrics and emotive vocals.
  • A. Cotton Comes to Harlem
    Cotton Comes to Harlem is a 1970 blaxploitation comedy-crime film, directed by Ossie Davis, that follows two Harlem detectives investigating a con man's fraudulent back-to-Africa scheme.
  • B. To Be Young, Gifted and Black
    "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" is a civil rights-era anthem by Nina Simone that celebrates Black pride, resilience, and the potential of Black youth.
  • C. Cause I'm Black
    "Cause I'm Black" is a track by Super Gangster (Extraordinary Gentleman) that reflects the album’s gritty, street-oriented hip-hop style and themes of identity and struggle.
  • D. Proud to Be Black
    "Proud to Be Black" is a politically charged, pro-Black empowerment track by Run-D.M.C. that closes their influential 1986 hip hop album Raising Hell.
  • E. Black Like Me
    Black Like Me is a 1961 nonfiction book by John Howard Griffin that chronicles his journey through the racially segregated American South while passing as a Black man to expose the realities of racism.
  • 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_69d8838b5fbc81908c6575c132b82e80 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e37bfbfd7c819092c92f6c8da07dbd completed April 18, 2026, 12:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0084ccbc888190816cdf0ea67b0a90 completed May 10, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a008576b0bc81909fdf0b7d26f4c2c1 completed May 10, 2026, 1:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0085e4b6ec81908383085ff08f0dce completed May 10, 2026, 1:19 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:18 a.m.