Triple

T5366826
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o E103150 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object In the House of the Interpreter
"In the House of the Interpreter" is a memoir by Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o recounting his experiences at a colonial-era boarding school and the political upheavals of Kenya’s struggle for independence.
E516074 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: In the House of the Interpreter | Statement: [Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, notableWork, In the House of the Interpreter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: In the House of the Interpreter
Context triple: [Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, notableWork, In the House of the Interpreter]
  • A. The Seer
    The Seer is a 1947 abstract painting by American artist Adolph Gottlieb, exemplifying his Pictograph style that combines symbolic imagery with expressive abstraction.
  • B. The Jewel That Was Ours
    The Jewel That Was Ours is a crime novel in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series, featuring a complex murder investigation intertwined with the theft of a valuable historical artifact in Oxford.
  • C. The Telling
    The Telling is a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin set in her Hainish universe, exploring themes of cultural suppression, storytelling, and the clash between tradition and authoritarian modernity.
  • D. Book of the Sleeping
    Book of the Sleeping is the English rendering of the title of the Sauptika Parva, a section of the Indian epic Mahabharata that narrates the night-time massacre of sleeping warriors.
  • E. Whisperers
    The Whisperers are a brutal post-apocalyptic cult in The Walking Dead universe who survive by wearing the skins of walkers and living among the dead.
  • 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: In the House of the Interpreter
Triple: [Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, notableWork, In the House of the Interpreter]
Generated description
"In the House of the Interpreter" is a memoir by Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o recounting his experiences at a colonial-era boarding school and the political upheavals of Kenya’s struggle for independence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: In the House of the Interpreter
Target entity description: "In the House of the Interpreter" is a memoir by Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o recounting his experiences at a colonial-era boarding school and the political upheavals of Kenya’s struggle for independence.
  • A. The Seer
    The Seer is a 1947 abstract painting by American artist Adolph Gottlieb, exemplifying his Pictograph style that combines symbolic imagery with expressive abstraction.
  • B. The Jewel That Was Ours
    The Jewel That Was Ours is a crime novel in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series, featuring a complex murder investigation intertwined with the theft of a valuable historical artifact in Oxford.
  • C. The Telling
    The Telling is a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin set in her Hainish universe, exploring themes of cultural suppression, storytelling, and the clash between tradition and authoritarian modernity.
  • D. Book of the Sleeping
    Book of the Sleeping is the English rendering of the title of the Sauptika Parva, a section of the Indian epic Mahabharata that narrates the night-time massacre of sleeping warriors.
  • E. Whisperers
    The Whisperers are a brutal post-apocalyptic cult in The Walking Dead universe who survive by wearing the skins of walkers and living among the dead.
  • 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_69bd43daa3e4819090b59d127db70e57 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd8684103081908ed79625b59e4b24 completed March 20, 2026, 5:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf2924caf48190b05f3ccbe54997d7 completed March 21, 2026, 11:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf2a09891c81908509695a41d1aa02 completed March 21, 2026, 11:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf2ad48fc48190bb0c7de4df879c3b completed March 21, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:02 p.m.