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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.