Triple

T3281053
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry Louis Gates Jr. E68871 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Loose Canons
Loose Canons is a collection of essays by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that examines issues of race, literature, and the Western canon in contemporary cultural debates.
E343932 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: Loose Canons | Statement: [Henry Louis Gates Jr., notableWork, Loose Canons]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Loose Canons
Context triple: [Henry Louis Gates Jr., notableWork, Loose Canons]
  • A. Custer Died for Your Sins
    "Custer Died for Your Sins" is a groundbreaking 1969 book by Vine Deloria Jr. that sharply critiques U.S. policies toward Native Americans and helped catalyze the Native American civil rights movement and literary renaissance.
  • B. Bow Down to Washington
    "Bow Down to Washington" is the traditional fight song of the University of Washington, widely recognized and played at the school's athletic events, especially football games.
  • C. Heard 'Em Say
    "Heard 'Em Say" is a reflective, soulful hip-hop song by Kanye West featuring Adam Levine, known for its introspective lyrics and mellow production.
  • D. The Bravados
    The Bravados is a 1958 American Western film starring Gregory Peck as a vengeful rancher hunting down a group of escaped convicts.
  • E. A Regular Guy
    A Regular Guy is a novel by American author Mona Simpson that explores family dynamics, identity, and the emotional complexities surrounding a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and his estranged daughter.
  • 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: Loose Canons
Triple: [Henry Louis Gates Jr., notableWork, Loose Canons]
Generated description
Loose Canons is a collection of essays by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that examines issues of race, literature, and the Western canon in contemporary cultural debates.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Loose Canons
Target entity description: Loose Canons is a collection of essays by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that examines issues of race, literature, and the Western canon in contemporary cultural debates.
  • A. Custer Died for Your Sins
    "Custer Died for Your Sins" is a groundbreaking 1969 book by Vine Deloria Jr. that sharply critiques U.S. policies toward Native Americans and helped catalyze the Native American civil rights movement and literary renaissance.
  • B. Bow Down to Washington
    "Bow Down to Washington" is the traditional fight song of the University of Washington, widely recognized and played at the school's athletic events, especially football games.
  • C. Heard 'Em Say
    "Heard 'Em Say" is a reflective, soulful hip-hop song by Kanye West featuring Adam Levine, known for its introspective lyrics and mellow production.
  • D. The Bravados
    The Bravados is a 1958 American Western film starring Gregory Peck as a vengeful rancher hunting down a group of escaped convicts.
  • E. A Regular Guy
    A Regular Guy is a novel by American author Mona Simpson that explores family dynamics, identity, and the emotional complexities surrounding a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and his estranged daughter.
  • 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.