Triple
T5366859
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o |
E103150
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableIdea |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | decolonising the mind |
E516067
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: decolonising the mind | Statement: [Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, notableIdea, decolonising the mind]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: decolonising the mind Context triple: [Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, notableIdea, decolonising the mind]
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A.
Decolonising the Mind
chosen
Decolonising the Mind is a seminal collection of essays by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o that critiques the cultural and psychological impacts of colonialism and advocates for writing in African languages as an act of resistance.
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B.
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason is a seminal theoretical work by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak that interrogates how Western philosophy, literature, and colonial discourse construct and silence the subaltern.
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C.
The Africa We Want
"The Africa We Want" is the aspirational slogan encapsulating the African Union’s long-term vision for a peaceful, prosperous, and integrated continent under Agenda 2063.
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D.
Nationalism in Colonial Africa
"Nationalism in Colonial Africa" is a seminal historical study by Thomas Lionel Hodgkin that analyzes the rise, development, and political impact of nationalist movements across Africa under colonial rule.
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E.
The Making of Black Revolutionaries
The Making of Black Revolutionaries is James Forman’s autobiographical account of his life and leadership in the civil rights and Black Power movements, offering an insider’s history of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and 1960s Black activism.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69bf334553148190a5c53bda473c17c3 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 12:09 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:02 p.m.