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”]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.