Triple

T1825641
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject VGIK E40646 entity
Predicate notableAlumnus P304 FINISHED
Object Ousmane Sembène
Ousmane Sembène was a pioneering Senegalese film director, producer, and writer often hailed as the "father of African cinema" for his politically engaged, socially conscious films.
E204252 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: Ousmane Sembène | Statement: [VGIK, notableAlumnus, Ousmane Sembène]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ousmane Sembène
Context triple: [VGIK, notableAlumnus, Ousmane Sembène]
  • A. Frantz Fanon
    Frantz Fanon was a Martinican psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary writer whose works on colonialism, racism, and liberation, such as "The Wretched of the Earth," profoundly shaped anti-colonial and Black radical thought worldwide.
  • B. Assia Djebar
    Assia Djebar was an influential Algerian novelist, filmmaker, and feminist whose French-language works powerfully explored themes of colonialism, gender, and national identity.
  • C. André Malraux
    André Malraux was a prominent 20th-century French novelist, art theorist, and statesman closely associated with Charles de Gaulle and known for his influential role in shaping modern French cultural policy.
  • D. Mia Couto
    Mia Couto is a Mozambican writer renowned for his lyrical, magical-realist prose that explores postcolonial identity, memory, and social change in Lusophone Africa.
  • E. Jacques Samossoud
    Jacques Samossoud was a Russian-born conductor best known as the second husband of Clara Clemens, the daughter of author Mark Twain.
  • 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: Ousmane Sembène
Triple: [VGIK, notableAlumnus, Ousmane Sembène]
Generated description
Ousmane Sembène was a pioneering Senegalese film director, producer, and writer often hailed as the "father of African cinema" for his politically engaged, socially conscious films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ousmane Sembène
Target entity description: Ousmane Sembène was a pioneering Senegalese film director, producer, and writer often hailed as the "father of African cinema" for his politically engaged, socially conscious films.
  • A. Frantz Fanon
    Frantz Fanon was a Martinican psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary writer whose works on colonialism, racism, and liberation, such as "The Wretched of the Earth," profoundly shaped anti-colonial and Black radical thought worldwide.
  • B. Assia Djebar
    Assia Djebar was an influential Algerian novelist, filmmaker, and feminist whose French-language works powerfully explored themes of colonialism, gender, and national identity.
  • C. André Malraux
    André Malraux was a prominent 20th-century French novelist, art theorist, and statesman closely associated with Charles de Gaulle and known for his influential role in shaping modern French cultural policy.
  • D. Mia Couto
    Mia Couto is a Mozambican writer renowned for his lyrical, magical-realist prose that explores postcolonial identity, memory, and social change in Lusophone Africa.
  • E. Jacques Samossoud
    Jacques Samossoud was a Russian-born conductor best known as the second husband of Clara Clemens, the daughter of author Mark Twain.
  • 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_69a8864644bc8190b2358ab897194ac1 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb00f13888190aa5582263d55d371 completed March 7, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adbf6927fc8190ad9ce95c92153c64 completed March 8, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adc0bf37ac8190b9cbbc5454061e75 completed March 8, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adc197f78481909f848e2ee2741e8d completed March 8, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.