Triple

T3281051
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry Louis Gates Jr. E68871 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Signifying Monkey
The Signifying Monkey is a seminal scholarly work by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that analyzes African American literary theory and vernacular traditions through the lens of signifying and rhetorical play.
E343930 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 Signifying Monkey | Statement: [Henry Louis Gates Jr., notableWork, The Signifying Monkey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Signifying Monkey
Context triple: [Henry Louis Gates Jr., notableWork, The Signifying Monkey]
  • A. Word and Object
    "Word and Object" is a seminal 1960 work of analytic philosophy by W.V.O. Quine that develops his views on meaning, reference, and the indeterminacy of translation.
  • B. How to Do Things with Words
    How to Do Things with Words is a foundational work in 20th-century philosophy of language by J. L. Austin that introduced speech act theory and transformed understandings of how language functions in practice.
  • C. The Ecstasy of Influence
    The Ecstasy of Influence is a 2011 essay collection by Jonathan Lethem that explores plagiarism, creativity, and artistic influence through a mix of criticism, memoir, and cultural commentary.
  • D. The White Negro
    The White Negro is a provocative 1957 essay by Norman Mailer that explores hipster culture, race, and existential rebellion in mid-20th-century America.
  • E. A Fable for Critics
    A Fable for Critics is a satirical poem by James Russell Lowell that humorously critiques and caricatures his contemporary American authors and the literary scene of his time.
  • 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 Signifying Monkey
Triple: [Henry Louis Gates Jr., notableWork, The Signifying Monkey]
Generated description
The Signifying Monkey is a seminal scholarly work by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that analyzes African American literary theory and vernacular traditions through the lens of signifying and rhetorical play.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Signifying Monkey
Target entity description: The Signifying Monkey is a seminal scholarly work by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that analyzes African American literary theory and vernacular traditions through the lens of signifying and rhetorical play.
  • A. Word and Object
    "Word and Object" is a seminal 1960 work of analytic philosophy by W.V.O. Quine that develops his views on meaning, reference, and the indeterminacy of translation.
  • B. How to Do Things with Words
    How to Do Things with Words is a foundational work in 20th-century philosophy of language by J. L. Austin that introduced speech act theory and transformed understandings of how language functions in practice.
  • C. The Ecstasy of Influence
    The Ecstasy of Influence is a 2011 essay collection by Jonathan Lethem that explores plagiarism, creativity, and artistic influence through a mix of criticism, memoir, and cultural commentary.
  • D. The White Negro
    The White Negro is a provocative 1957 essay by Norman Mailer that explores hipster culture, race, and existential rebellion in mid-20th-century America.
  • E. A Fable for Critics
    A Fable for Critics is a satirical poem by James Russell Lowell that humorously critiques and caricatures his contemporary American authors and the literary scene of his time.
  • 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_69ad859c463481909ca4be267336c290 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb032d76c81909c568a4e56d12ce9 completed March 8, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2e851d2bc8190ba887cd1c81c880d completed March 12, 2026, 4:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2e8e42ecc8190b81d1b64f9fba0c1 completed March 12, 2026, 4:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2e954ec18819096f31feb9e985b6a completed March 12, 2026, 4:27 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:10 p.m.