Triple

T5452844

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019	`E122407`	entity
Predicate	editorRoleOf	`P31471`	FINISHED
Object	Keisha N. Blain is a historian of African American history Keisha N. Blain is a prominent historian and writer specializing in African American history and Black internationalism, known for her influential scholarship on race, politics, and social movements.	`E520705`	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: Keisha N. Blain is a historian of African American history | Statement: [Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019, editorRoleOf, Keisha N. Blain is a historian of African American history]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Keisha N. Blain is a historian of African American history
Context triple: [Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019, editorRoleOf, Keisha N. Blain is a historian of African American history]

A. Barbara Ransby
Barbara Ransby is an American historian, writer, and activist known for her influential scholarship on Black women’s leadership in civil rights and Black freedom movements.
B. Robin D. G. Kelley
Robin D. G. Kelley is an American historian and scholar of African American history, radical social movements, and Black intellectual and cultural life.
C. Ja'Net DuBois
Ja'Net DuBois was an American actress and singer best known for her role as Willona Woods on the sitcom "Good Times" and for co-writing and singing the theme song for "The Jeffersons."
D. Patricia Hill Collins
Patricia Hill Collins is an influential American sociologist and Black feminist theorist known for her work on intersectionality, Black women's intellectual traditions, and critical race theory.
E. Tressie McMillan Cottom
Tressie McMillan Cottom is an American sociologist, writer, and public intellectual known for her work on race, inequality, and higher education.
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: Keisha N. Blain is a historian of African American history
Triple: [Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019, editorRoleOf, Keisha N. Blain is a historian of African American history]

Generated description

Keisha N. Blain is a prominent historian and writer specializing in African American history and Black internationalism, known for her influential scholarship on race, politics, and social movements.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Keisha N. Blain is a historian of African American history
Target entity description: Keisha N. Blain is a prominent historian and writer specializing in African American history and Black internationalism, known for her influential scholarship on race, politics, and social movements.

A. Barbara Ransby
Barbara Ransby is an American historian, writer, and activist known for her influential scholarship on Black women’s leadership in civil rights and Black freedom movements.
B. Robin D. G. Kelley
Robin D. G. Kelley is an American historian and scholar of African American history, radical social movements, and Black intellectual and cultural life.
C. Ja'Net DuBois
Ja'Net DuBois was an American actress and singer best known for her role as Willona Woods on the sitcom "Good Times" and for co-writing and singing the theme song for "The Jeffersons."
D. Patricia Hill Collins
Patricia Hill Collins is an influential American sociologist and Black feminist theorist known for her work on intersectionality, Black women's intellectual traditions, and critical race theory.
E. Tressie McMillan Cottom
Tressie McMillan Cottom is an American sociologist, writer, and public intellectual known for her work on race, inequality, and higher education.
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_69bd46424248819085282ddf50a565f3`	completed	March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69bd964583008190bf7b94f656e4ecf2`	completed	March 20, 2026, 6:47 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69bf4140248081908c7f42b91579a837`	completed	March 22, 2026, 1:09 a.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69bf41dd96448190973b7241df5dbb24`	completed	March 22, 2026, 1:11 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69bf42b97d40819087a98c1cc58bb964`	completed	March 22, 2026, 1:15 a.m.

Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:08 p.m.