Triple

T5380508
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject J. M. Coetzee E113069 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Life & Times of Michael K
Life & Times of Michael K is a Booker Prize–winning novel by J. M. Coetzee that follows a marginalized man’s journey across a war-torn South Africa, exploring themes of freedom, identity, and state power.
E515401 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: Life & Times of Michael K | Statement: [J. M. Coetzee, notableWork, Life & Times of Michael K]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life & Times of Michael K
Context triple: [J. M. Coetzee, notableWork, Life & Times of Michael K]
  • A. Season of Migration to the North
    Season of Migration to the North is a landmark 1966 novel by Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih that explores themes of colonialism, identity, and cultural conflict between Europe and Africa.
  • B. Cry, the Beloved Country
    Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1995 film adaptation of Alan Paton's classic South African novel, depicting racial injustice and reconciliation during the apartheid era.
  • C. A Dry White Season
    A Dry White Season is a 1989 anti-apartheid drama film set in South Africa, based on André Brink’s novel, that explores racial injustice through the story of a white teacher who investigates the death of a Black friend in police custody.
  • D. The Killings at Badger's Drift
    The Killings at Badger's Drift is a British television crime drama episode that serves as the first case in the long-running Midsomer Murders series, introducing DCI Tom Barnaby and the sinister goings-on in the fictional English county of Midsomer.
  • E. Young Mungo
    Young Mungo is a critically acclaimed novel by Douglas Stuart that explores queer love, masculinity, and sectarian violence in working-class Glasgow.
  • 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: Life & Times of Michael K
Triple: [J. M. Coetzee, notableWork, Life & Times of Michael K]
Generated description
Life & Times of Michael K is a Booker Prize–winning novel by J. M. Coetzee that follows a marginalized man’s journey across a war-torn South Africa, exploring themes of freedom, identity, and state power.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life & Times of Michael K
Target entity description: Life & Times of Michael K is a Booker Prize–winning novel by J. M. Coetzee that follows a marginalized man’s journey across a war-torn South Africa, exploring themes of freedom, identity, and state power.
  • A. Season of Migration to the North
    Season of Migration to the North is a landmark 1966 novel by Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih that explores themes of colonialism, identity, and cultural conflict between Europe and Africa.
  • B. Cry, the Beloved Country
    Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1995 film adaptation of Alan Paton's classic South African novel, depicting racial injustice and reconciliation during the apartheid era.
  • C. A Dry White Season
    A Dry White Season is a 1989 anti-apartheid drama film set in South Africa, based on André Brink’s novel, that explores racial injustice through the story of a white teacher who investigates the death of a Black friend in police custody.
  • D. The Killings at Badger's Drift
    The Killings at Badger's Drift is a British television crime drama episode that serves as the first case in the long-running Midsomer Murders series, introducing DCI Tom Barnaby and the sinister goings-on in the fictional English county of Midsomer.
  • E. Young Mungo
    Young Mungo is a critically acclaimed novel by Douglas Stuart that explores queer love, masculinity, and sectarian violence in working-class Glasgow.
  • 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_69bd4436a1988190af18dcff7fd306b4 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd86ce56c88190a66b3852416edccb completed March 20, 2026, 5:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf2949cd9881908ca0d8fdf1642f71 completed March 21, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf2a46c4808190bd706cbb76bbfbc2 completed March 21, 2026, 11:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf2ab19a50819098ef5a611daa8cd6 completed March 21, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:03 p.m.