Triple

T5281937
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject We Were Eight Years in Power E119517 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object “This Is How We Lost to the White Man”
“This Is How We Lost to the White Man” is an essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates that examines Bill Cosby’s respectability politics and the broader history of Black leadership, responsibility, and racial inequality in America.
E508348 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: “This Is How We Lost to the White Man” | Statement: [We Were Eight Years in Power, hasPart, “This Is How We Lost to the White Man”]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “This Is How We Lost to the White Man”
Context triple: [We Were Eight Years in Power, hasPart, “This Is How We Lost to the White Man”]
  • A. This Is a Black Man’s Country
    "This Is a Black Man’s Country" is an early reggae track by Jamaican singer Horace Andy that helped launch his recording career.
  • B. 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.
  • C. The War You Don't See
    The War You Don't See is a documentary film by journalist John Pilger that critically examines how the media shapes public perception of war and conflict.
  • D. A Place Among the Nations
    A Place Among the Nations is a political and historical book by Benjamin Netanyahu that presents a defense of Zionism and the Jewish people's claim to the land of Israel.
  • E. Trail of Broken Treaties
    The Trail of Broken Treaties was a 1972 cross-country protest caravan and occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., organized by Native American activists to demand recognition of treaty rights and tribal sovereignty.
  • 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: “This Is How We Lost to the White Man”
Triple: [We Were Eight Years in Power, hasPart, “This Is How We Lost to the White Man”]
Generated description
“This Is How We Lost to the White Man” is an essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates that examines Bill Cosby’s respectability politics and the broader history of Black leadership, responsibility, and racial inequality in America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “This Is How We Lost to the White Man”
Target entity description: “This Is How We Lost to the White Man” is an essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates that examines Bill Cosby’s respectability politics and the broader history of Black leadership, responsibility, and racial inequality in America.
  • A. This Is a Black Man’s Country
    "This Is a Black Man’s Country" is an early reggae track by Jamaican singer Horace Andy that helped launch his recording career.
  • B. 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.
  • C. The War You Don't See
    The War You Don't See is a documentary film by journalist John Pilger that critically examines how the media shapes public perception of war and conflict.
  • D. A Place Among the Nations
    A Place Among the Nations is a political and historical book by Benjamin Netanyahu that presents a defense of Zionism and the Jewish people's claim to the land of Israel.
  • E. Trail of Broken Treaties
    The Trail of Broken Treaties was a 1972 cross-country protest caravan and occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., organized by Native American activists to demand recognition of treaty rights and tribal sovereignty.
  • 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_69bd446d05a8819092ad333a3f9c8d5c completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd84c69780819097a1ea9385e11077 completed March 20, 2026, 5:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf06e27b5081908b755a817d4c260a completed March 21, 2026, 9 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf08bf26448190bd3a3f632ea79d85 completed March 21, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf091f09f88190aa382387e6b94662 completed March 21, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:52 p.m.