Triple
T20683231
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | "This Is How We Lost to the White Man" |
E508348
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainSubject |
P3
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Bill Cosby |
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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: Bill Cosby | Statement: ["This Is How We Lost to the White Man", mainSubject, Bill Cosby]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Cosby Context triple: ["This Is How We Lost to the White Man", mainSubject, Bill Cosby]
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A.
Bill Cosby
chosen
Bill Cosby is an American comedian, actor, and producer who rose to fame with stand-up comedy and the groundbreaking television series "The Cosby Show," later becoming a highly controversial figure due to numerous sexual assault allegations and convictions.
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B.
William Cosby
William Cosby was an 18th-century British colonial governor of New York whose actions against newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger led to a landmark trial for freedom of the press.
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C.
Erinn Cosby
Erinn Cosby is an American artist and photographer best known as one of Bill Cosby’s daughters and the sister of the late Ennis Cosby.
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D.
Ennis Cosby
Ennis Cosby was the son of comedian Bill Cosby and academic Camille Cosby, known publicly for his tragic murder in 1997 while studying to become a special education teacher.
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E.
Ted Allen
Ted Allen is an American food and wine expert and television personality best known as the longtime host of the competitive cooking show "Chopped."
- 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_69e0b4c1ed408190b72dd26b1e33f8a1 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6bea9771881908a077d01f53f6d52 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 12:02 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:45 a.m.