Triple

T5281942
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject We Were Eight Years in Power E119517 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration”
“The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration” is an essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates that examines how U.S. criminal justice policies have devastated Black families and communities.
E508352 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 Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration” | Statement: [We Were Eight Years in Power, hasPart, “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration”]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration”
Context triple: [We Were Eight Years in Power, hasPart, “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration”]
  • A. Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration
    Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration is a museum in Montgomery, Alabama that traces the history of racial injustice in the United States from slavery through Jim Crow to the modern criminal justice system.
  • B. Are Prisons Obsolete?
    Are Prisons Obsolete? is a influential book by Angela Davis that critiques the prison-industrial complex and argues for prison abolition as part of broader social and political transformation.
  • C. Prisons of Poverty
    Prisons of Poverty is a sociological study by Loïc Wacquant that critiques the rise of punitive penal policies and mass incarceration as tools for managing poverty and social marginality in advanced capitalist societies.
  • D. Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? The African American Family in Transition
    "Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? The African American Family in Transition" is a sociopolitical and cultural critique that examines the challenges facing African American men and families while advocating for self-determination, responsibility, and community empowerment.
  • E. Black and White America
    "Black and White America" is a funk-rock and soul-infused studio album by American musician Lenny Kravitz that explores themes of race, identity, and social issues.
  • 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 Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration”
Triple: [We Were Eight Years in Power, hasPart, “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration”]
Generated description
“The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration” is an essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates that examines how U.S. criminal justice policies have devastated Black families and communities.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration”
Target entity description: “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration” is an essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates that examines how U.S. criminal justice policies have devastated Black families and communities.
  • A. Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration
    Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration is a museum in Montgomery, Alabama that traces the history of racial injustice in the United States from slavery through Jim Crow to the modern criminal justice system.
  • B. Are Prisons Obsolete?
    Are Prisons Obsolete? is a influential book by Angela Davis that critiques the prison-industrial complex and argues for prison abolition as part of broader social and political transformation.
  • C. Prisons of Poverty
    Prisons of Poverty is a sociological study by Loïc Wacquant that critiques the rise of punitive penal policies and mass incarceration as tools for managing poverty and social marginality in advanced capitalist societies.
  • D. Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? The African American Family in Transition
    "Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? The African American Family in Transition" is a sociopolitical and cultural critique that examines the challenges facing African American men and families while advocating for self-determination, responsibility, and community empowerment.
  • E. Black and White America
    "Black and White America" is a funk-rock and soul-infused studio album by American musician Lenny Kravitz that explores themes of race, identity, and social issues.
  • 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.