Triple
T22041028
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The American Mercury |
E544636
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasContributor |
P4244
|
FINISHED |
| Object | W. E. B. Du Bois |
E30664
|
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: W. E. B. Du Bois | Statement: [The American Mercury, hasContributor, W. E. B. Du Bois]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. E. B. Du Bois Context triple: [The American Mercury, hasContributor, W. E. B. Du Bois]
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A.
W. E. B. Du Bois
chosen
W. E. B. Du Bois was an influential African American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP, renowned for his pioneering work on race and inequality.
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B.
J. Du Bois
J. Du Bois is an American chemist known for his contributions to synthetic organic chemistry, particularly in the development of novel C–H bond functionalization methods.
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C.
William Du Bois Duddell
William Du Bois Duddell was a British physicist and electrical engineer best known for his pioneering work on electrical oscillations and the invention of the "singing arc."
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D.
William Dubois
William Dubois was the individual after whom Camp Dubois—associated with the Lewis and Clark Expedition—was named, likely a figure of local or historical significance in that context.
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E.
Josiah E. DuBois Jr.
Josiah E. DuBois Jr. was a U.S. Treasury Department lawyer and key Holocaust whistleblower whose efforts helped expose government inaction and led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.
- 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_69e11e32445c8190ab97089b48a130bb |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f12828fc788190a22c0e9c2372656b |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:35 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a0a7b6f2a1c819090cfa07e83f24368 |
completed | May 18, 2026, 2:37 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:25 p.m.