Triple

T382215
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The English Patient E8704 entity
Predicate authorOfSourceWork P2353 FINISHED
Object Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet best known for his Booker Prize–winning novel "The English Patient."
E48045 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: Michael Ondaatje | Statement: [The English Patient, authorOfSourceWork, Michael Ondaatje]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Ondaatje
Context triple: [The English Patient, authorOfSourceWork, Michael Ondaatje]
  • A. Margaret Atwood
    Margaret Atwood is a renowned Canadian author and poet best known for her speculative fiction works such as "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Oryx and Crake."
  • B. Campbell McInnes
    Campbell McInnes is a film producer best known for his work on the political drama "Chappaquiddick," which explores the 1969 incident involving Senator Ted Kennedy.
  • C. Helen Garner
    Helen Garner is an acclaimed Australian novelist, short story writer, and journalist known for her incisive explorations of everyday life, relationships, and moral complexity.
  • D. Salman Rushdie
    Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist renowned for his magical realist works, particularly "Midnight's Children" and the controversial "The Satanic Verses."
  • E. Jhumpa Lahiri
    Jhumpa Lahiri is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author known for her nuanced portrayals of the Indian-American immigrant experience and themes of identity, displacement, and cultural conflict.
  • 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: Michael Ondaatje
Triple: [The English Patient, authorOfSourceWork, Michael Ondaatje]
Generated description
Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet best known for his Booker Prize–winning novel "The English Patient."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Ondaatje
Target entity description: Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet best known for his Booker Prize–winning novel "The English Patient."
  • A. Margaret Atwood
    Margaret Atwood is a renowned Canadian author and poet best known for her speculative fiction works such as "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Oryx and Crake."
  • B. Campbell McInnes
    Campbell McInnes is a film producer best known for his work on the political drama "Chappaquiddick," which explores the 1969 incident involving Senator Ted Kennedy.
  • C. Helen Garner
    Helen Garner is an acclaimed Australian novelist, short story writer, and journalist known for her incisive explorations of everyday life, relationships, and moral complexity.
  • D. Salman Rushdie
    Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist renowned for his magical realist works, particularly "Midnight's Children" and the controversial "The Satanic Verses."
  • E. Jhumpa Lahiri
    Jhumpa Lahiri is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author known for her nuanced portrayals of the Indian-American immigrant experience and themes of identity, displacement, and cultural conflict.
  • 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_69a2e7f47dd08190a4e294ccbbe46cd4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec2e3d5c8190b358bd9fd6b16a14 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3fb0100fc8190819b977bb7a98d7f completed March 1, 2026, 8:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3fb6569e881909d52f07a4207ed24 completed March 1, 2026, 8:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3fbdfdfcc81909ae03736623594d5 completed March 1, 2026, 8:42 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.