Triple
T14077708
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | A Dry White Season |
E338779
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasLiterarySource |
P10578
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FINISHED |
| Object | A Dry White Season (novel) |
E338779
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: A Dry White Season (novel) | Statement: [A Dry White Season, hasLiterarySource, A Dry White Season (novel)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Dry White Season (novel) Context triple: [A Dry White Season, hasLiterarySource, A Dry White Season (novel)]
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A.
A Dry White Season
chosen
A Dry White Season is a 1989 anti-apartheid drama film set in South Africa, based on André Brink’s novel, that explores racial injustice through the story of a white teacher who investigates the death of a Black friend in police custody.
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B.
The Killings at Badger's Drift
The Killings at Badger's Drift is a British television crime drama episode that serves as the first case in the long-running Midsomer Murders series, introducing DCI Tom Barnaby and the sinister goings-on in the fictional English county of Midsomer.
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C.
Anthills of the Savannah
Anthills of the Savannah is a political novel by Chinua Achebe that explores power, corruption, and resistance in a fictional postcolonial African state.
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D.
Life & Times of Michael K
Life & Times of Michael K is a Booker Prize–winning novel by J. M. Coetzee that follows a marginalized man’s journey across a war-torn South Africa, exploring themes of freedom, identity, and state power.
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E.
A Bend in the River
A Bend in the River is a 1979 novel by V. S. Naipaul that explores postcolonial turmoil and personal dislocation in an unnamed Central African country.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d81c687b0c819087fd9ed4198403f8 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de5c5e027881908f610f5bab7598d4 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 3:25 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fcd0a175a48190b596ea4cf917e80e |
completed | May 7, 2026, 5:49 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:21 p.m.