Triple

T1111889
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Igbo E11012 entity
Predicate notableWriter P10455 FINISHED
Object Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe was a pioneering Nigerian novelist, best known for his influential work "Things Fall Apart" and for shaping modern African literature.
E128536 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: Chinua Achebe | Statement: [Igbo, notableWriter, Chinua Achebe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chinua Achebe
Context triple: [Igbo, notableWriter, Chinua Achebe]
  • A. Nnimmo Bassey
    Nnimmo Bassey is a Nigerian environmental activist, architect, and poet known for his leadership in climate justice and opposition to oil exploitation in the Niger Delta.
  • B. Abdulrazak Gurnah
    Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate renowned for his works exploring themes of colonialism, displacement, and migration.
  • C. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is a Kenyan writer, theorist of postcolonial literature, and prominent advocate for African languages whose novels, essays, and plays critique colonialism and its legacies.
  • D. Richard Wright
    Richard Wright was a pioneering 20th-century African American author whose powerful novels and essays, such as "Native Son" and "Black Boy," exposed the brutal realities of racism and profoundly shaped later Black writers and intellectuals.
  • E. J. M. Coetzee
    J. M. Coetzee is a South African-born novelist, essayist, and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate renowned for his austere, morally probing fiction exploring power, cruelty, and the human condition.
  • 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: Chinua Achebe
Triple: [Igbo, notableWriter, Chinua Achebe]
Generated description
Chinua Achebe was a pioneering Nigerian novelist, best known for his influential work "Things Fall Apart" and for shaping modern African literature.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chinua Achebe
Target entity description: Chinua Achebe was a pioneering Nigerian novelist, best known for his influential work "Things Fall Apart" and for shaping modern African literature.
  • A. Nnimmo Bassey
    Nnimmo Bassey is a Nigerian environmental activist, architect, and poet known for his leadership in climate justice and opposition to oil exploitation in the Niger Delta.
  • B. Abdulrazak Gurnah
    Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate renowned for his works exploring themes of colonialism, displacement, and migration.
  • C. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is a Kenyan writer, theorist of postcolonial literature, and prominent advocate for African languages whose novels, essays, and plays critique colonialism and its legacies.
  • D. Richard Wright
    Richard Wright was a pioneering 20th-century African American author whose powerful novels and essays, such as "Native Son" and "Black Boy," exposed the brutal realities of racism and profoundly shaped later Black writers and intellectuals.
  • E. J. M. Coetzee
    J. M. Coetzee is a South African-born novelist, essayist, and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate renowned for his austere, morally probing fiction exploring power, cruelty, and the human condition.
  • 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_69a493252a648190ac48f8742474a5e8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bb7742788190b320aec99e76ca41 completed March 1, 2026, 10:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac5395666c8190b709f91315d785c0 completed March 7, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac55571e008190a53313b04b9e152c completed March 7, 2026, 4:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac55c3e48c8190a38f8adc2fea5794 completed March 7, 2026, 4:43 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.