Triple
T17864743
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Gavin Menzies |
E446664
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entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object | Who Discovered America? The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Who Discovered America? The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas | Statement: [Gavin Menzies, notableWork, Who Discovered America? The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Who Discovered America? The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas Context triple: [Gavin Menzies, notableWork, Who Discovered America? The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas]
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A.
The Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas
The Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas was the central concept of HemisFair ’68, highlighting the historical and cultural interactions among the diverse peoples and nations of the American continents.
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B.
The Discoverers
The Discoverers is a 2012 American comedy-drama film in which Griffin Dunne plays a beleaguered history professor forced into a dysfunctional family road trip that intersects with a group of historical reenactors.
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C.
Americans Before Columbus
Americans Before Columbus is a publication that explores the histories, cultures, and experiences of Indigenous peoples in the Americas prior to European contact.
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D.
Africa and the Discovery of America
Africa and the Discovery of America is a three-volume historical study by Leo Wiener arguing for significant African influence on the pre-Columbian Americas.
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E.
Quincentenary of the Discovery of America
The Quincentenary of the Discovery of America was the 500th anniversary commemoration in 1992 of Christopher Columbus’s 1492 voyage and the subsequent European encounter with the Americas.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Who Discovered America? The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas Target entity description: "Who Discovered America? The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas" is a controversial book by Gavin Menzies that challenges conventional views on the first settlers of the Americas by proposing alternative pre-Columbian contact theories.
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A.
The Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas
The Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas was the central concept of HemisFair ’68, highlighting the historical and cultural interactions among the diverse peoples and nations of the American continents.
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B.
The Discoverers
The Discoverers is a 2012 American comedy-drama film in which Griffin Dunne plays a beleaguered history professor forced into a dysfunctional family road trip that intersects with a group of historical reenactors.
-
C.
Americans Before Columbus
Americans Before Columbus is a publication that explores the histories, cultures, and experiences of Indigenous peoples in the Americas prior to European contact.
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D.
Africa and the Discovery of America
Africa and the Discovery of America is a three-volume historical study by Leo Wiener arguing for significant African influence on the pre-Columbian Americas.
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E.
Quincentenary of the Discovery of America
The Quincentenary of the Discovery of America was the 500th anniversary commemoration in 1992 of Christopher Columbus’s 1492 voyage and the subsequent European encounter with the Americas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 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_69d8b9f4c22c819093c2680434472894 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:51 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e49792ccf88190a0984963bb385688 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 8:51 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:17 a.m.