Triple

T21746914
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Voices of a People’s History of the United States E536812 entity
Predicate editor P1954 FINISHED
Object Howard Zinn — 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: Howard Zinn | Statement: [Voices of a People’s History of the United States, editor, Howard Zinn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Howard Zinn
Context triple: [Voices of a People’s History of the United States, editor, Howard Zinn]
  • A. Howard Zinn chosen
    Howard Zinn was an American historian, playwright, and social activist best known for his influential book "A People’s History of the United States," which presented U.S. history from the perspective of marginalized groups.
  • B. Raymond D. Zinn
    Raymond D. Zinn is a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-founder and former CEO of semiconductor company Micrel, recognized for his leadership and contributions to the semiconductor industry.
  • C. Paul Buhle
    Paul Buhle is an American historian and editor known for his work on radical politics, labor history, and comics, often exploring the intersection of leftist movements and popular culture.
  • D. Richard Hofstadter
    Richard Hofstadter was a prominent 20th-century American historian and public intellectual known for his influential analyses of U.S. political culture, including works like "The American Political Tradition" and "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life."
  • E. Alan Brinkley
    Alan Brinkley was a prominent American historian and Columbia University professor known for his influential works on 20th-century U.S. political and intellectual history.
  • 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_69e0c46df5448190b4322127ffc4c690 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f01a771b908190886cade242e263e4 completed April 28, 2026, 2:24 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:49 p.m.