Triple
T4609776
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Serpent and the Rainbow |
E100525
|
entity |
| Predicate | starring |
P1507
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Zakes Mokae
Zakes Mokae was a South African-born actor renowned for his powerful stage and film performances, particularly in works confronting apartheid and racial injustice.
|
E456212
|
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: Zakes Mokae | Statement: [The Serpent and the Rainbow, starring, Zakes Mokae]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zakes Mokae Context triple: [The Serpent and the Rainbow, starring, Zakes Mokae]
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A.
Mbongeni Ngema
Mbongeni Ngema is a South African playwright, composer, and director best known for creating the anti-apartheid musical "Sarafina!" and other influential works in theatre and film.
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B.
Zakes Mda
Zakes Mda is a prominent South African novelist, playwright, and academic known for his influential works exploring post-apartheid society and Xhosa cultural identity.
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C.
Piet Uys
Piet Uys was a 19th-century Voortrekker leader from the Cape Colony who played a prominent role in the Great Trek in South African history.
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D.
Raymond Mhlaba
Raymond Mhlaba was a South African anti-apartheid activist, senior African National Congress leader, and later a provincial premier who became notable for his role in the struggle against apartheid and his imprisonment alongside Nelson Mandela.
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E.
Fulatha Tshabalala
Fulatha Tshabalala was a Ndebele woman best known as the mother of Lobengula Khumalo, the second and last king of the Northern Ndebele (Matabele) kingdom in what is now Zimbabwe.
- 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: Zakes Mokae Triple: [The Serpent and the Rainbow, starring, Zakes Mokae]
Generated description
Zakes Mokae was a South African-born actor renowned for his powerful stage and film performances, particularly in works confronting apartheid and racial injustice.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zakes Mokae Target entity description: Zakes Mokae was a South African-born actor renowned for his powerful stage and film performances, particularly in works confronting apartheid and racial injustice.
-
A.
Mbongeni Ngema
Mbongeni Ngema is a South African playwright, composer, and director best known for creating the anti-apartheid musical "Sarafina!" and other influential works in theatre and film.
-
B.
Zakes Mda
Zakes Mda is a prominent South African novelist, playwright, and academic known for his influential works exploring post-apartheid society and Xhosa cultural identity.
-
C.
Piet Uys
Piet Uys was a 19th-century Voortrekker leader from the Cape Colony who played a prominent role in the Great Trek in South African history.
-
D.
Raymond Mhlaba
Raymond Mhlaba was a South African anti-apartheid activist, senior African National Congress leader, and later a provincial premier who became notable for his role in the struggle against apartheid and his imprisonment alongside Nelson Mandela.
-
E.
Fulatha Tshabalala
Fulatha Tshabalala was a Ndebele woman best known as the mother of Lobengula Khumalo, the second and last king of the Northern Ndebele (Matabele) kingdom in what is now Zimbabwe.
- 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_69bd43cce1e08190a07d53af6a9b6c24 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd599f08d88190ad4bed8bafb592cd |
completed | March 20, 2026, 2:28 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bdfa7e918881908743818e0645da46 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 1:55 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69bdfb6fa3fc8190b79b641025710eb1 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 1:59 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69bdfbeddd7c8190955bd3363fec4ca1 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 2:01 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:12 p.m.