Triple
T5186830
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
E117051
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | We Were Eight Years in Power |
E119517
|
NE FINISHED |
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: We Were Eight Years in Power | Statement: [Ta-Nehisi Coates, notableWork, We Were Eight Years in Power]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: We Were Eight Years in Power Context triple: [Ta-Nehisi Coates, notableWork, We Were Eight Years in Power]
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A.
We Were Eight Years in Power
chosen
We Were Eight Years in Power is a collection of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s essays reflecting on the Obama presidency, race, and American history, drawn largely from his work in The Atlantic.
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B.
Between the World and Me
"Between the World and Me" is a critically acclaimed nonfiction book by Ta-Nehisi Coates that reflects on race, identity, and the Black experience in America through a personal letter to his son.
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C.
The Beautiful Struggle
The Beautiful Struggle is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s coming-of-age memoir about growing up in Baltimore amid violence, hip-hop culture, and his father’s Black nationalist ideals.
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D.
A Seat at the Table
A Seat at the Table is Solange Knowles's critically acclaimed 2016 R&B album that explores Black identity, empowerment, and healing through introspective, socially conscious songs.
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E.
I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 documentary film that uses James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript and archival footage to examine the history of racism in the United States through his reflections on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69bd44620ff48190bcac01782107a397 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd79c3e9e08190848be4208b72f310 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 4:45 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bee08807748190ae8f34a6e8875c15 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 6:16 p.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:46 p.m.