Triple

T6361946
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas King E143130 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America is a non-fiction book by Thomas King that blends history, memoir, and sharp cultural critique to examine the treatment and representation of Indigenous peoples in North America.
E587971 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 Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America | Statement: [Thomas King, notableWork, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Context triple: [Thomas King, notableWork, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America]
  • A. “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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
    Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a nonfiction book by Isabel Wilkerson that examines the hidden caste systems shaping social hierarchy and inequality in the United States and around the world.
  • D. The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indians
    The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indians is an anthropological study and interpretation of Native American ritual and mythology by ethnologist Paul Radin.
  • E. The Idea of North
    The Idea of North is a 1967 experimental radio documentary by Canadian pianist and broadcaster Glenn Gould that explores themes of isolation, solitude, and northern identity through layered spoken voices and sound.
  • 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 Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Triple: [Thomas King, notableWork, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America]
Generated description
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America is a non-fiction book by Thomas King that blends history, memoir, and sharp cultural critique to examine the treatment and representation of Indigenous peoples in North America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Target entity description: The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America is a non-fiction book by Thomas King that blends history, memoir, and sharp cultural critique to examine the treatment and representation of Indigenous peoples in North America.
  • A. “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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
    Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a nonfiction book by Isabel Wilkerson that examines the hidden caste systems shaping social hierarchy and inequality in the United States and around the world.
  • D. The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indians
    The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indians is an anthropological study and interpretation of Native American ritual and mythology by ethnologist Paul Radin.
  • E. The Idea of North
    The Idea of North is a 1967 experimental radio documentary by Canadian pianist and broadcaster Glenn Gould that explores themes of isolation, solitude, and northern identity through layered spoken voices and sound.
  • 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_69c008d7a9c4819098d647ec47776917 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0680c02b481908618317566e31a5c completed March 22, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c62d6d906481908b5883bff18ceec8 completed March 27, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c62e2072808190a4f2dd262b631c88 completed March 27, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c62f1bbdac8190b0cff9fbcddd68a7 completed March 27, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:32 p.m.