Triple
T18186116
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature |
E435418
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entity |
| Predicate | relatedWork |
P37
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FINISHED |
| Object | Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination | Statement: [Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature, relatedWork, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Context triple: [Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature, relatedWork, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination]
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A.
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
chosen
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination is Toni Morrison’s influential critical study examining how constructions of Blackness shape the themes, characters, and narratives of canonical American literature.
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B.
Playing in the Dark (essays and criticism contexts)
Playing in the Dark is a critical work by Toni Morrison that examines how white American literature has been shaped by constructions of Blackness and Africanist presence.
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C.
“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.
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D.
Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks is a seminal 1952 work of anti-colonial theory and psychoanalysis in which Frantz Fanon examines the psychological effects of racism and colonialism on Black identity.
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E.
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature is a widely used scholarly collection that surveys and contextualizes major works by African American writers from the eighteenth century to the present.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69d8b90c7ec081909b4694ccecb449c6 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e4dffe9e8081909c6bff40bbd279d2 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 2 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:31 a.m.