Triple

T2565156
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Weldon Johnson E57333 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a 1912 novel by James Weldon Johnson that explores race, identity, and passing in early 20th-century America through the life story of a mixed-race narrator.
E278417 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: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man | Statement: [James Weldon Johnson, notableWork, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Context triple: [James Weldon Johnson, notableWork, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man]
  • A. Notes of a Native Son
    Notes of a Native Son is James Baldwin’s influential 1955 collection of essays examining race, identity, and social injustice in mid-20th-century America.
  • B. The Souls of Black Folk
    The Souls of Black Folk is a seminal 1903 collection of essays by W. E. B. Du Bois that explores African American life after the Civil War and famously introduces the concepts of "double consciousness" and "the veil."
  • C. The New Negro (anthology)
    The New Negro is a landmark 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke that helped define and propel the Harlem Renaissance by showcasing the literature, art, and thought of a new generation of Black American creators.
  • D. The Dying Negro
    The Dying Negro is an 18th-century abolitionist poem co-authored by Thomas Day that powerfully condemns the brutality of the transatlantic slave trade.
  • E. Negro Life at the South
    "Negro Life at the South" is an 1859 genre painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts the everyday lives of enslaved African Americans in a Washington, D.C. backyard, offering a complex, nuanced view of slavery on the eve of the Civil War.
  • 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: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Triple: [James Weldon Johnson, notableWork, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man]
Generated description
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a 1912 novel by James Weldon Johnson that explores race, identity, and passing in early 20th-century America through the life story of a mixed-race narrator.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Target entity description: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a 1912 novel by James Weldon Johnson that explores race, identity, and passing in early 20th-century America through the life story of a mixed-race narrator.
  • A. Notes of a Native Son
    Notes of a Native Son is James Baldwin’s influential 1955 collection of essays examining race, identity, and social injustice in mid-20th-century America.
  • B. The Souls of Black Folk
    The Souls of Black Folk is a seminal 1903 collection of essays by W. E. B. Du Bois that explores African American life after the Civil War and famously introduces the concepts of "double consciousness" and "the veil."
  • C. The New Negro (anthology)
    The New Negro is a landmark 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke that helped define and propel the Harlem Renaissance by showcasing the literature, art, and thought of a new generation of Black American creators.
  • D. The Dying Negro
    The Dying Negro is an 18th-century abolitionist poem co-authored by Thomas Day that powerfully condemns the brutality of the transatlantic slave trade.
  • E. Negro Life at the South
    "Negro Life at the South" is an 1859 genre painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts the everyday lives of enslaved African Americans in a Washington, D.C. backyard, offering a complex, nuanced view of slavery on the eve of the Civil War.
  • F. None of above. chosen

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_69ab4a4ef9008190a0e6d4422b9418b7 completed March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd35dce0081909fcac5ac5ad6b841 completed March 7, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af5d283ab48190a04fab64a6492306 completed March 9, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af5dea244c81909bd6bcdba0edf958 completed March 9, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af5e69ac3481908f48ad0efcd13767 completed March 9, 2026, 11:57 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:48 p.m.