Triple

T5240452
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mac Maharaj E118326 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Sathyandranath Ragunanan
Sathyandranath Ragunanan, better known as Mac Maharaj, is a South African anti-apartheid activist, former political prisoner, and politician who served as a close ally of Nelson Mandela and later as a government minister and presidential spokesperson.
 E507129 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: Sathyandranath Ragunanan | Statement: [Mac Maharaj, givenName, Sathyandranath Ragunanan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sathyandranath Ragunanan
Context triple: [Mac Maharaj, givenName, Sathyandranath Ragunanan]
  • A. N. Rangasamy
    N. Rangasamy is an Indian politician who has served multiple terms as the Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Puducherry and is known for founding the All India N.R. Congress party.
  • B. Shankar Sastry
    Shankar Sastry is a prominent control theorist and engineer known for his influential contributions to control systems, robotics, and cyber-physical systems, as well as his leadership roles in academia.
  • C. Ramakrishnan Raman
    Ramakrishnan Raman is an Indian academic and administrator who serves as the Vice-Chancellor of Symbiosis International University, overseeing its strategic and educational leadership.
  • D. R. Venkataraman
    R. Venkataraman was an Indian lawyer, freedom fighter, and statesman who served as the eighth President of India from 1987 to 1992.
  • E. Sundaresh Menon
    Sundaresh Menon is a Singaporean jurist who serves as the country’s top judge and head of its judiciary.
  • 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: Sathyandranath Ragunanan
Triple: [Mac Maharaj, givenName, Sathyandranath Ragunanan]
Generated description
Sathyandranath Ragunanan, better known as Mac Maharaj, is a South African anti-apartheid activist, former political prisoner, and politician who served as a close ally of Nelson Mandela and later as a government minister and presidential spokesperson.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sathyandranath Ragunanan
Target entity description: Sathyandranath Ragunanan, better known as Mac Maharaj, is a South African anti-apartheid activist, former political prisoner, and politician who served as a close ally of Nelson Mandela and later as a government minister and presidential spokesperson.
  • A. N. Rangasamy
    N. Rangasamy is an Indian politician who has served multiple terms as the Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Puducherry and is known for founding the All India N.R. Congress party.
  • B. Shankar Sastry
    Shankar Sastry is a prominent control theorist and engineer known for his influential contributions to control systems, robotics, and cyber-physical systems, as well as his leadership roles in academia.
  • C. Ramakrishnan Raman
    Ramakrishnan Raman is an Indian academic and administrator who serves as the Vice-Chancellor of Symbiosis International University, overseeing its strategic and educational leadership.
  • D. R. Venkataraman
    R. Venkataraman was an Indian lawyer, freedom fighter, and statesman who served as the eighth President of India from 1987 to 1992.
  • E. Sundaresh Menon
    Sundaresh Menon is a Singaporean jurist who serves as the country’s top judge and head of its judiciary.
  • 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_69bd4467db0881909b3b0982df32cc8f completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7b2a52fc8190a22631e1853c74a3 completed March 20, 2026, 4:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69befe65e3048190899a6316dc4c89eb completed March 21, 2026, 8:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69beff4322308190b252820e7213f05e completed March 21, 2026, 8:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69beffe02d208190b857d6aaa4d85dae completed March 21, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:49 p.m.