Triple

T1241892
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Midaq Alley E26674 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Hussain Kirsha
Hussain Kirsha is a character in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Midaq Alley," known as the son of a café owner whose ambitions and moral compromises reflect the social changes in mid-20th-century Cairo.
E153269 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: Hussain Kirsha | Statement: [Midaq Alley, hasCharacter, Hussain Kirsha]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hussain Kirsha
Context triple: [Midaq Alley, hasCharacter, Hussain Kirsha]
  • A. Karim Ahmad Khan
    Karim Ahmad Khan is a British barrister and international lawyer who serves as the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, known for his work in international criminal and humanitarian law.
  • B. Najm Hosain Syed
    Najm Hosain Syed is a prominent Pakistani writer, critic, and playwright renowned for his influential contributions to modern Punjabi literature and literary criticism.
  • C. Khader Khan
    Khader Khan is a powerful and charismatic Mumbai mafia don and philosophical mentor figure in Gregory David Roberts’ novel *Shantaram*.
  • D. Fayyazuddin
    Fayyazuddin is a Pakistani theoretical physicist known for his contributions to particle physics and for being a prominent student and collaborator of Nobel laureate Abdus Salam.
  • E. Kader Asmal
    Kader Asmal was a prominent South African anti-apartheid activist, legal scholar, and cabinet minister who played a key role in shaping the country’s post-apartheid constitutional and human rights framework.
  • 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: Hussain Kirsha
Triple: [Midaq Alley, hasCharacter, Hussain Kirsha]
Generated description
Hussain Kirsha is a character in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Midaq Alley," known as the son of a café owner whose ambitions and moral compromises reflect the social changes in mid-20th-century Cairo.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hussain Kirsha
Target entity description: Hussain Kirsha is a character in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Midaq Alley," known as the son of a café owner whose ambitions and moral compromises reflect the social changes in mid-20th-century Cairo.
  • A. Karim Ahmad Khan
    Karim Ahmad Khan is a British barrister and international lawyer who serves as the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, known for his work in international criminal and humanitarian law.
  • B. Najm Hosain Syed
    Najm Hosain Syed is a prominent Pakistani writer, critic, and playwright renowned for his influential contributions to modern Punjabi literature and literary criticism.
  • C. Khader Khan
    Khader Khan is a powerful and charismatic Mumbai mafia don and philosophical mentor figure in Gregory David Roberts’ novel *Shantaram*.
  • D. Fayyazuddin
    Fayyazuddin is a Pakistani theoretical physicist known for his contributions to particle physics and for being a prominent student and collaborator of Nobel laureate Abdus Salam.
  • E. Kader Asmal
    Kader Asmal was a prominent South African anti-apartheid activist, legal scholar, and cabinet minister who played a key role in shaping the country’s post-apartheid constitutional and human rights framework.
  • 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_69a4948689d08190b3a4a3f388c02148 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bf44ac3c8190a28a333b320305fd completed March 1, 2026, 10:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acc61b45748190a12e1aec029b76df completed March 8, 2026, 12:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acc697fdc8819081b8e06981417064 completed March 8, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc722d8608190acbef82f180b75d1 completed March 8, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.