Triple

T5842897
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Dixon Jr. E129634 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object Ku Klux Klan (in his Reconstruction trilogy)
The Ku Klux Klan in Thomas Dixon Jr.’s Reconstruction trilogy is a romanticized, fictionalized version of the white supremacist organization, portrayed as heroic defenders of the post–Civil War South.
E129632 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: Ku Klux Klan (in his Reconstruction trilogy) | Statement: [Thomas Dixon Jr., basedOn, Ku Klux Klan (in his Reconstruction trilogy)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ku Klux Klan (in his Reconstruction trilogy)
Context triple: [Thomas Dixon Jr., basedOn, Ku Klux Klan (in his Reconstruction trilogy)]
  • A. The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
    The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a 1905 white supremacist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. that glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and provided the basis for D. W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation.
  • B. Children of the Confederacy
    Children of the Confederacy is a youth auxiliary organization that promotes Confederate heritage and values among children and teenagers, historically linked to the Lost Cause movement in the American South.
  • C. Ghosts of Mississippi
    Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American courtroom drama film about the retrial of civil rights activist Medgar Evers’ assassin, featuring James Woods in an acclaimed supporting role.
  • D. The Cross and the Lynching Tree
    The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a theological work by James H. Cone that explores the connection between the Christian crucifixion narrative and the history of racial terror and lynching in the United States.
  • E. Absalom, Absalom!
    Absalom, Absalom! is a 1936 novel by William Faulkner that intricately explores themes of Southern history, race, and family through a fragmented, multi-perspective narrative centered on the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen in Mississippi.
  • 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: Ku Klux Klan (in his Reconstruction trilogy)
Triple: [Thomas Dixon Jr., basedOn, Ku Klux Klan (in his Reconstruction trilogy)]
Generated description
The Ku Klux Klan in Thomas Dixon Jr.’s Reconstruction trilogy is a romanticized, fictionalized version of the white supremacist organization, portrayed as heroic defenders of the post–Civil War South.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ku Klux Klan (in his Reconstruction trilogy)
Target entity description: The Ku Klux Klan in Thomas Dixon Jr.’s Reconstruction trilogy is a romanticized, fictionalized version of the white supremacist organization, portrayed as heroic defenders of the post–Civil War South.
  • A. The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan chosen
    The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a 1905 white supremacist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. that glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and provided the basis for D. W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation.
  • B. Children of the Confederacy
    Children of the Confederacy is a youth auxiliary organization that promotes Confederate heritage and values among children and teenagers, historically linked to the Lost Cause movement in the American South.
  • C. Ghosts of Mississippi
    Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American courtroom drama film about the retrial of civil rights activist Medgar Evers’ assassin, featuring James Woods in an acclaimed supporting role.
  • D. The Cross and the Lynching Tree
    The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a theological work by James H. Cone that explores the connection between the Christian crucifixion narrative and the history of racial terror and lynching in the United States.
  • E. Absalom, Absalom!
    Absalom, Absalom! is a 1936 novel by William Faulkner that intricately explores themes of Southern history, race, and family through a fragmented, multi-perspective narrative centered on the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen in Mississippi.
  • F. None of above.

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_69c0084bd31c8190a796bb6284845e83 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c034d9da0c8190970319d0dc2fc73f completed March 22, 2026, 6:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0a1a2506481908a3e638c1121bfd0 completed March 23, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0a27765688190b02a1b0cd39a87fe completed March 23, 2026, 2:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0a2fd7ec081909033994e5556a6ae completed March 23, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:54 p.m.