Triple

T1822914
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Josiah E. DuBois Jr. E40581 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object DuBois
DuBois is a surname most notably associated with figures such as civil rights leader and scholar W. E. B. Du Bois and various other prominent individuals in American history.
E30664 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: DuBois | Statement: [Josiah E. DuBois Jr., familyName, DuBois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: DuBois
Context triple: [Josiah E. DuBois Jr., familyName, DuBois]
  • A. Ibram
    Ibram is the given name of Ibram X. Kendi, a prominent American historian and leading scholar of antiracism.
  • B. Horace Cayton
    Horace Cayton was an influential African American sociologist, journalist, and author whose work documented Black urban life and helped shape the intellectual landscape of the Chicago Black Renaissance.
  • C. Josiah E. DuBois Jr.
    Josiah E. DuBois Jr. was a U.S. Treasury Department lawyer and key Holocaust whistleblower whose efforts helped expose government inaction and led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.
  • D. W. E. B. Du Bois
    W. E. B. Du Bois was an influential African American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP, renowned for his pioneering work on race and inequality.
  • E. Ibram Henry Rogers
    Ibram Henry Rogers, better known as Ibram X. Kendi, is an American historian, author, and leading scholar of antiracism and race studies.
  • 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: DuBois
Triple: [Josiah E. DuBois Jr., familyName, DuBois]
Generated description
DuBois is a surname most notably associated with figures such as civil rights leader and scholar W. E. B. Du Bois and various other prominent individuals in American history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: DuBois
Target entity description: DuBois is a surname most notably associated with figures such as civil rights leader and scholar W. E. B. Du Bois and various other prominent individuals in American history.
  • A. Ibram
    Ibram is the given name of Ibram X. Kendi, a prominent American historian and leading scholar of antiracism.
  • B. Horace Cayton
    Horace Cayton was an influential African American sociologist, journalist, and author whose work documented Black urban life and helped shape the intellectual landscape of the Chicago Black Renaissance.
  • C. Josiah E. DuBois Jr.
    Josiah E. DuBois Jr. was a U.S. Treasury Department lawyer and key Holocaust whistleblower whose efforts helped expose government inaction and led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.
  • D. W. E. B. Du Bois chosen
    W. E. B. Du Bois was an influential African American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP, renowned for his pioneering work on race and inequality.
  • E. Ibram Henry Rogers
    Ibram Henry Rogers, better known as Ibram X. Kendi, is an American historian, author, and leading scholar of antiracism and race studies.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a8864526c081908a3a4d74f689e2c5 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa662d13e88190a22b0faf0d848c7d completed March 6, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adbf6722f081908c5368a09d1507ac completed March 8, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adc0a4ab488190b8ff962980abb5b7 completed March 8, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adc13330888190a2b99c6fcbb97d49 completed March 8, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.