Triple
T994697
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
E21469
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
We Were Eight Years in Power
We Were Eight Years in Power is a collection of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s essays reflecting on the Obama presidency, race, and American history, drawn largely from his work in The Atlantic.
|
E119517
|
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: We Were Eight Years in Power | Statement: [Ta-Nehisi Coates, notableWork, We Were Eight Years in Power]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: We Were Eight Years in Power Context triple: [Ta-Nehisi Coates, notableWork, We Were Eight Years in Power]
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A.
Between the World and Me
"Between the World and Me" is a critically acclaimed nonfiction book by Ta-Nehisi Coates that reflects on race, identity, and the Black experience in America through a personal letter to his son.
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B.
The Beautiful Struggle
The Beautiful Struggle is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s coming-of-age memoir about growing up in Baltimore amid violence, hip-hop culture, and his father’s Black nationalist ideals.
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C.
I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 documentary film that uses James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript and archival footage to examine the history of racism in the United States through his reflections on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.
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D.
Black America Again
Black America Again is a socially conscious hip-hop album by Common that addresses systemic racism, black identity, and political resistance in contemporary America.
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E.
Voices of Freedom
Voices of Freedom is a collection of antislavery poems by John Greenleaf Whittier that powerfully advocated for the abolitionist cause in 19th-century America.
- 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: We Were Eight Years in Power Triple: [Ta-Nehisi Coates, notableWork, We Were Eight Years in Power]
Generated description
We Were Eight Years in Power is a collection of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s essays reflecting on the Obama presidency, race, and American history, drawn largely from his work in The Atlantic.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: We Were Eight Years in Power Target entity description: We Were Eight Years in Power is a collection of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s essays reflecting on the Obama presidency, race, and American history, drawn largely from his work in The Atlantic.
-
A.
Between the World and Me
"Between the World and Me" is a critically acclaimed nonfiction book by Ta-Nehisi Coates that reflects on race, identity, and the Black experience in America through a personal letter to his son.
-
B.
The Beautiful Struggle
The Beautiful Struggle is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s coming-of-age memoir about growing up in Baltimore amid violence, hip-hop culture, and his father’s Black nationalist ideals.
-
C.
I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 documentary film that uses James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript and archival footage to examine the history of racism in the United States through his reflections on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.
-
D.
Black America Again
Black America Again is a socially conscious hip-hop album by Common that addresses systemic racism, black identity, and political resistance in contemporary America.
-
E.
Voices of Freedom
Voices of Freedom is a collection of antislavery poems by John Greenleaf Whittier that powerfully advocated for the abolitionist cause in 19th-century America.
- 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_69a493c476b48190b41fc5e793171cc6 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4b4c75de88190bf7fec7a053f7a90 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:51 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac3ba34c808190a745740c93cd520c |
completed | March 7, 2026, 2:52 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ac3c11ea9c8190addcaacd445c32bc |
completed | March 7, 2026, 2:54 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ac3cd94ab48190ade678fdce311b03 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 2:57 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.