Triple

T6920702
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject White Teeth E160176 entity
Predicate protagonist P268 FINISHED
Object Samad Iqbal
Samad Iqbal is a central character in Zadie Smith’s novel "White Teeth," portrayed as a Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant in London struggling with cultural identity, faith, and generational conflict.
E630039 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: Samad Iqbal | Statement: [White Teeth, protagonist, Samad Iqbal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samad Iqbal
Context triple: [White Teeth, protagonist, Samad Iqbal]
  • A. Ghulam Qadir
    Ghulam Qadir was an 18th-century Rohilla chieftain notorious for his brutal treatment of the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II and his role in the empire’s violent decline.
  • B. Shaukat Ali
    Shaukat Ali was a prominent Indian Muslim nationalist leader and activist best known for his role in the Khilafat Movement alongside his brother Mohammad Ali Jauhar.
  • C. Muhammad Kam Bakhsh
    Muhammad Kam Bakhsh was the youngest son of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (Alamgir I), known for his brief and ultimately unsuccessful bid for power during the empire’s decline.
  • D. Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
    Muhammed Zafar Iqbal is a prominent Bangladeshi science fiction writer, physicist, and academic known for his influential work in literature and science education.
  • E. Abdul Rab Nishtar
    Abdul Rab Nishtar was a prominent Pakistani politician and independence activist who played a key leadership role in the Pakistan Movement and later served as a federal minister and Governor of the North-West Frontier Province.
  • 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: Samad Iqbal
Triple: [White Teeth, protagonist, Samad Iqbal]
Generated description
Samad Iqbal is a central character in Zadie Smith’s novel "White Teeth," portrayed as a Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant in London struggling with cultural identity, faith, and generational conflict.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samad Iqbal
Target entity description: Samad Iqbal is a central character in Zadie Smith’s novel "White Teeth," portrayed as a Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant in London struggling with cultural identity, faith, and generational conflict.
  • A. Ghulam Qadir
    Ghulam Qadir was an 18th-century Rohilla chieftain notorious for his brutal treatment of the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II and his role in the empire’s violent decline.
  • B. Shaukat Ali
    Shaukat Ali was a prominent Indian Muslim nationalist leader and activist best known for his role in the Khilafat Movement alongside his brother Mohammad Ali Jauhar.
  • C. Muhammad Kam Bakhsh
    Muhammad Kam Bakhsh was the youngest son of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (Alamgir I), known for his brief and ultimately unsuccessful bid for power during the empire’s decline.
  • D. Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
    Muhammed Zafar Iqbal is a prominent Bangladeshi science fiction writer, physicist, and academic known for his influential work in literature and science education.
  • E. Abdul Rab Nishtar
    Abdul Rab Nishtar was a prominent Pakistani politician and independence activist who played a key leadership role in the Pakistan Movement and later served as a federal minister and Governor of the North-West Frontier Province.
  • 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_69c6884d350081908d8a970e4d40ad78 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d9fa452c8190b2bea2d47309c889 completed March 27, 2026, 7:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c751345edc8190ab0f34120a42571e completed March 28, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c751abed548190ac2152acd3029d2d completed March 28, 2026, 3:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7558dd72081909af14d319ce01ff6 completed March 28, 2026, 4:14 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:26 p.m.