Triple

T10034188
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wole Soyinka E204921 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Madmen and Specialists
Madmen and Specialists is a dark, absurdist play by Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka that explores the moral decay and psychological devastation wrought by war and tyranny.
E836788 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: Madmen and Specialists | Statement: [Wole Soyinka, notableWork, Madmen and Specialists]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Madmen and Specialists
Context triple: [Wole Soyinka, notableWork, Madmen and Specialists]
  • A. The Mandarins
    The Mandarins is a 1954 existentialist novel by Simone de Beauvoir that portrays the personal and political struggles of French intellectuals in the aftermath of World War II.
  • B. The New Men
    The New Men is a 1954 novel by C. P. Snow in his "Strangers and Brothers" series, focusing on the ethical and political dilemmas surrounding the development of nuclear weapons in Britain during World War II.
  • C. The Maddening
    The Maddening is a 1995 psychological thriller film starring Burt Reynolds as a deranged patriarch who imprisons a young woman and her family.
  • D. Ages of Man
    Ages of Man is an ancient Greek myth, famously recounted by Hesiod, that divides human history into successive declining eras from a Golden Age to an Iron Age.
  • E. Modern Man
    "Modern Man" is a song by the Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire from their critically acclaimed 2010 album *The Suburbs*.
  • 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: Madmen and Specialists
Triple: [Wole Soyinka, notableWork, Madmen and Specialists]
Generated description
Madmen and Specialists is a dark, absurdist play by Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka that explores the moral decay and psychological devastation wrought by war and tyranny.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Madmen and Specialists
Target entity description: Madmen and Specialists is a dark, absurdist play by Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka that explores the moral decay and psychological devastation wrought by war and tyranny.
  • A. The Mandarins
    The Mandarins is a 1954 existentialist novel by Simone de Beauvoir that portrays the personal and political struggles of French intellectuals in the aftermath of World War II.
  • B. The New Men
    The New Men is a 1954 novel by C. P. Snow in his "Strangers and Brothers" series, focusing on the ethical and political dilemmas surrounding the development of nuclear weapons in Britain during World War II.
  • C. The Maddening
    The Maddening is a 1995 psychological thriller film starring Burt Reynolds as a deranged patriarch who imprisons a young woman and her family.
  • D. Ages of Man
    Ages of Man is an ancient Greek myth, famously recounted by Hesiod, that divides human history into successive declining eras from a Golden Age to an Iron Age.
  • E. Modern Man
    "Modern Man" is a song by the Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire from their critically acclaimed 2010 album *The Suburbs*.
  • 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_69ca834d77188190ad645e33e8ca3200 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdce490ff08190963d841b05d150a7 completed April 2, 2026, 2:02 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d28250be608190b7e2b809672cdd78 completed April 5, 2026, 3:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2834f6d488190812f91a5b4971c1e completed April 5, 2026, 3:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d28432d900819091ff0d324a6bb28a completed April 5, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:54 p.m.