Triple

T994730
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ta-Nehisi Coates E21469 entity
Predicate wrote P2831 FINISHED
Object We Were Eight Years in Power E119517 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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, wrote, 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, wrote, We Were Eight Years in Power]
  • A. We Were Eight Years in Power chosen
    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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69ac5995ad6c8190a324094151442bce completed March 7, 2026, 5 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.