Triple
T9393159
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Styron |
E226074
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Confessions of Nat Turner is William Styron’s controversial, Pulitzer Prize–winning historical novel that fictionalizes the life and 1831 slave rebellion of Nat Turner in Virginia.
|
E796377
|
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 Confessions of Nat Turner | Statement: [William Styron, notableWork, The Confessions of Nat Turner]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Confessions of Nat Turner Context triple: [William Styron, notableWork, The Confessions of Nat Turner]
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A.
Nat Turner’s confessions
Nat Turner’s confessions are the recorded jailhouse accounts in which the leader of the 1831 Southampton County slave rebellion described his life, religious visions, and motivations for the uprising.
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B.
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
"Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" is an 1856 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores resistance to slavery through the story of fugitive slaves living in the Great Dismal Swamp.
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C.
American Negro Slave Revolts
American Negro Slave Revolts is a seminal historical study by Herbert Aptheker that documents and analyzes the resistance and uprisings of enslaved African Americans in the United States.
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D.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States is a mid-19th-century travel narrative and social commentary that examines the economy, society, and conditions of slavery in the American South.
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E.
The Slave
The Slave is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer that explores themes of faith, love, and spiritual resilience in 17th-century Poland through the story of a Jewish man enslaved after a massacre.
- 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 Confessions of Nat Turner Triple: [William Styron, notableWork, The Confessions of Nat Turner]
Generated description
The Confessions of Nat Turner is William Styron’s controversial, Pulitzer Prize–winning historical novel that fictionalizes the life and 1831 slave rebellion of Nat Turner in Virginia.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Confessions of Nat Turner Target entity description: The Confessions of Nat Turner is William Styron’s controversial, Pulitzer Prize–winning historical novel that fictionalizes the life and 1831 slave rebellion of Nat Turner in Virginia.
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A.
Nat Turner’s confessions
Nat Turner’s confessions are the recorded jailhouse accounts in which the leader of the 1831 Southampton County slave rebellion described his life, religious visions, and motivations for the uprising.
-
B.
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
"Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" is an 1856 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores resistance to slavery through the story of fugitive slaves living in the Great Dismal Swamp.
-
C.
American Negro Slave Revolts
American Negro Slave Revolts is a seminal historical study by Herbert Aptheker that documents and analyzes the resistance and uprisings of enslaved African Americans in the United States.
-
D.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States is a mid-19th-century travel narrative and social commentary that examines the economy, society, and conditions of slavery in the American South.
-
E.
The Slave
The Slave is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer that explores themes of faith, love, and spiritual resilience in 17th-century Poland through the story of a Jewish man enslaved after a massacre.
- 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_69ca842f7e3481908bf5bcf52e032dbd |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd510fec6481908b51c497744068c8 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 5:08 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d10108cd0c8190a38ee2325d3475ce |
completed | April 4, 2026, 12:16 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69d1028690e48190ad737550f1425028 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 12:22 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69d102f969188190b62fe3b8e7035b1d |
completed | April 4, 2026, 12:24 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:45 p.m.