Triple

T12273321
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zakes Mda E292523 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Ways of Dying
Ways of Dying is a post-apartheid South African novel by Zakes Mda that follows a self-appointed professional mourner navigating grief, community, and transformation in a rapidly changing society.
E974895 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: Ways of Dying | Statement: [Zakes Mda, notableWork, Ways of Dying]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ways of Dying
Context triple: [Zakes Mda, notableWork, Ways of Dying]
  • A. Art of Dying
    "Art of Dying" is a spiritually themed rock song by George Harrison, featured on his acclaimed 1970 solo album All Things Must Pass.
  • B. Last to Die
    "Last to Die" is a crime thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen featuring medical examiner Maura Isles and detective Jane Rizzoli as they investigate a series of murders linked to a group of traumatized orphans.
  • C. Last to Die
    Last to Die is a Magic: The Gathering card, likely a creature or spell, associated with the Magic game universe.
  • D. De mortalitate
    De mortalitate is a Christian theological treatise by Cyprian of Carthage that reflects on death, suffering, and the hope of eternal life amid plague and persecution.
  • E. The Living and the Dead
    The Living and the Dead is a British supernatural drama television series set in Victorian rural England, blending ghostly mysteries with psychological and folk-horror elements.
  • 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: Ways of Dying
Triple: [Zakes Mda, notableWork, Ways of Dying]
Generated description
Ways of Dying is a post-apartheid South African novel by Zakes Mda that follows a self-appointed professional mourner navigating grief, community, and transformation in a rapidly changing society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ways of Dying
Target entity description: Ways of Dying is a post-apartheid South African novel by Zakes Mda that follows a self-appointed professional mourner navigating grief, community, and transformation in a rapidly changing society.
  • A. Art of Dying
    "Art of Dying" is a spiritually themed rock song by George Harrison, featured on his acclaimed 1970 solo album All Things Must Pass.
  • B. Last to Die
    "Last to Die" is a crime thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen featuring medical examiner Maura Isles and detective Jane Rizzoli as they investigate a series of murders linked to a group of traumatized orphans.
  • C. Last to Die
    Last to Die is a Magic: The Gathering card, likely a creature or spell, associated with the Magic game universe.
  • D. De mortalitate
    De mortalitate is a Christian theological treatise by Cyprian of Carthage that reflects on death, suffering, and the hope of eternal life amid plague and persecution.
  • E. The Living and the Dead
    The Living and the Dead is a British supernatural drama television series set in Victorian rural England, blending ghostly mysteries with psychological and folk-horror elements.
  • 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_69d6ab6856488190b5d31178d5015f8e completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d91cee7158819093fff74db6867896 completed April 10, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f61e6b50a48190b1beabd149d5830f completed May 2, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f61f9386548190a749445a404db3a2 completed May 2, 2026, 4 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6208024988190b279c10a1ace9a28 completed May 2, 2026, 4:04 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:52 p.m.