Triple
T9459491
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Richard Roundtree |
E228105
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entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Roots (1977 television miniseries)
Roots (1977 television miniseries) is a landmark American TV drama that chronicles multiple generations of an African American family from enslavement to emancipation, widely acclaimed for its powerful portrayal of slavery’s brutality and its impact on U.S. culture and television history.
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E801103
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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: Roots (1977 television miniseries) | Statement: [Richard Roundtree, notableWork, Roots (1977 television miniseries)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roots (1977 television miniseries) Context triple: [Richard Roundtree, notableWork, Roots (1977 television miniseries)]
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A.
Roots (2016 miniseries)
Roots (2016 miniseries) is a 2016 television adaptation of Alex Haley’s landmark novel tracing multiple generations of an African American family from enslavement to emancipation.
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B.
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Saga of an American Family is Alex Haley’s landmark 1976 historical novel that traces multiple generations of an African American family from their origins in West Africa through slavery and beyond in the United States.
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C.
Malcolm X in Roots: The Next Generations
Malcolm X in Roots: The Next Generations is a dramatized portrayal of the influential African-American civil rights leader featured in the sequel to Alex Haley’s landmark television miniseries Roots.
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D.
Eyes on the Prize
"Eyes on the Prize" is a traditional American civil rights anthem that became widely known through its use in the 1960s movement and later popular recordings, including Bruce Springsteen’s folk revival projects.
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E.
The Piano Lesson (TV film)
The Piano Lesson is a television film adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize–winning play about a 1930s African American family torn over whether to sell a heirloom piano carved with their ancestors’ history.
- 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: Roots (1977 television miniseries) Triple: [Richard Roundtree, notableWork, Roots (1977 television miniseries)]
Generated description
Roots (1977 television miniseries) is a landmark American TV drama that chronicles multiple generations of an African American family from enslavement to emancipation, widely acclaimed for its powerful portrayal of slavery’s brutality and its impact on U.S. culture and television history.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roots (1977 television miniseries) Target entity description: Roots (1977 television miniseries) is a landmark American TV drama that chronicles multiple generations of an African American family from enslavement to emancipation, widely acclaimed for its powerful portrayal of slavery’s brutality and its impact on U.S. culture and television history.
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A.
Roots (2016 miniseries)
Roots (2016 miniseries) is a 2016 television adaptation of Alex Haley’s landmark novel tracing multiple generations of an African American family from enslavement to emancipation.
-
B.
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Saga of an American Family is Alex Haley’s landmark 1976 historical novel that traces multiple generations of an African American family from their origins in West Africa through slavery and beyond in the United States.
-
C.
Malcolm X in Roots: The Next Generations
Malcolm X in Roots: The Next Generations is a dramatized portrayal of the influential African-American civil rights leader featured in the sequel to Alex Haley’s landmark television miniseries Roots.
-
D.
Eyes on the Prize
"Eyes on the Prize" is a traditional American civil rights anthem that became widely known through its use in the 1960s movement and later popular recordings, including Bruce Springsteen’s folk revival projects.
-
E.
The Piano Lesson (TV film)
The Piano Lesson is a television film adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize–winning play about a 1930s African American family torn over whether to sell a heirloom piano carved with their ancestors’ history.
- 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_69ca843b123881909b0e60028475d12d |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:10 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd7fc916348190aeb3874a89071677 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 8:27 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d122965aa48190bb35202b8dd0fdbd |
completed | April 4, 2026, 2:39 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69d12474e91c8190b3f127a44fb0f345 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 2:47 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69d12521921881909fa14b99c6dd5158 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 2:50 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:52 p.m.