Triple

T5281943
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject We Were Eight Years in Power E119517 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object “My President Was Black”
“My President Was Black” is an essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates reflecting on the significance, legacy, and racial politics of Barack Obama’s presidency.
 E508353 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: “My President Was Black” | Statement: [We Were Eight Years in Power, hasPart, “My President Was Black”]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: “My President Was Black”
Context triple: [We Were Eight Years in Power, hasPart, “My President Was Black”]
  • A. Meet the Blacks
    Meet the Blacks is a 2016 American horror-comedy film that parodies home-invasion and Purge-style movies, featuring comedian Gary Owen among its cast.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Bicentennial Nigger
    Bicentennial Nigger is a 1976 stand-up comedy album by Richard Pryor that showcases his sharp, politically charged humor about race and American society.
  • D. Madam President
    Madam President is the formal style of address used for a woman serving as President of the Senate in Belgium.
  • E. Madam President
    Madam President is the formal style of address used for a female head of state serving as President of Romania.
  • 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: “My President Was Black”
Triple: [We Were Eight Years in Power, hasPart, “My President Was Black”]
Generated description
“My President Was Black” is an essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates reflecting on the significance, legacy, and racial politics of Barack Obama’s presidency.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: “My President Was Black”
Target entity description: “My President Was Black” is an essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates reflecting on the significance, legacy, and racial politics of Barack Obama’s presidency.
  • A. Meet the Blacks
    Meet the Blacks is a 2016 American horror-comedy film that parodies home-invasion and Purge-style movies, featuring comedian Gary Owen among its cast.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Bicentennial Nigger
    Bicentennial Nigger is a 1976 stand-up comedy album by Richard Pryor that showcases his sharp, politically charged humor about race and American society.
  • D. Madam President
    Madam President is the formal style of address used for a woman serving as President of the Senate in Belgium.
  • E. Madam President
    Madam President is the formal style of address used for a female head of state serving as President of Romania.
  • 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.