Triple

T6929274
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Souls of Black Folk E160391 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Of the Meaning of Progress
"Of the Meaning of Progress" is an essay by W.E.B. Du Bois in *The Souls of Black Folk* that reflects on the limits and contradictions of social and economic "progress" for African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South.
E628884 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: Of the Meaning of Progress | Statement: [The Souls of Black Folk, hasPart, Of the Meaning of Progress]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Of the Meaning of Progress
Context triple: [The Souls of Black Folk, hasPart, Of the Meaning of Progress]
  • A. Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought
    "Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought" is a 1901 futurist work by H. G. Wells in which he predicts how advancing technology and science will reshape society, politics, and everyday life.
  • B. The World’s Progress
    The World’s Progress is a comprehensive reference work compiled by American publisher George Palmer Putnam that surveys major events, discoveries, and developments throughout world history.
  • C. Illusions of Progress
    Illusions of Progress is a political and social critique by Georges Sorel that challenges optimistic beliefs in linear social advancement and rational reform.
  • D. The Law of Civilization and Decay
    The Law of Civilization and Decay is a historical and sociological study by Brooks Adams that analyzes the rise and fall of civilizations through economic and psychological forces.
  • E. This Unsuccessful Age or The Pains of Economic Progress
    "This Unsuccessful Age or The Pains of Economic Progress" is a work by German economist Walter Eucken that critically examines the social and moral consequences of modern economic development and advocates for an order-based economic policy.
  • 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: Of the Meaning of Progress
Triple: [The Souls of Black Folk, hasPart, Of the Meaning of Progress]
Generated description
"Of the Meaning of Progress" is an essay by W.E.B. Du Bois in *The Souls of Black Folk* that reflects on the limits and contradictions of social and economic "progress" for African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Of the Meaning of Progress
Target entity description: "Of the Meaning of Progress" is an essay by W.E.B. Du Bois in *The Souls of Black Folk* that reflects on the limits and contradictions of social and economic "progress" for African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South.
  • A. Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought
    "Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought" is a 1901 futurist work by H. G. Wells in which he predicts how advancing technology and science will reshape society, politics, and everyday life.
  • B. The World’s Progress
    The World’s Progress is a comprehensive reference work compiled by American publisher George Palmer Putnam that surveys major events, discoveries, and developments throughout world history.
  • C. Illusions of Progress
    Illusions of Progress is a political and social critique by Georges Sorel that challenges optimistic beliefs in linear social advancement and rational reform.
  • D. The Law of Civilization and Decay
    The Law of Civilization and Decay is a historical and sociological study by Brooks Adams that analyzes the rise and fall of civilizations through economic and psychological forces.
  • E. This Unsuccessful Age or The Pains of Economic Progress
    "This Unsuccessful Age or The Pains of Economic Progress" is a work by German economist Walter Eucken that critically examines the social and moral consequences of modern economic development and advocates for an order-based economic policy.
  • 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_69c6884e15208190b9e91487eaafcf85 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6da1f5fcc8190b43f53f90fc1821c completed March 27, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7514774d88190af212d7953014703 completed March 28, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7524d677c81909531ba9bb46f2632 completed March 28, 2026, 4 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c752bef2808190843f3cad53aa5702 completed March 28, 2026, 4:02 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:27 p.m.