Triple

T8624633
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ousmane Sembène E204252 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Xala
Xala is a 1974 satirical film (and earlier novel) by Ousmane Sembène that critiques post-independence African elites through the story of a corrupt businessman afflicted with impotence.
 E754277 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: Xala | Statement: [Ousmane Sembène, notableWork, Xala]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Xala
Context triple: [Ousmane Sembène, notableWork, Xala]
  • A. Sikasso
    Sikasso is a major city in southern Mali known as an important agricultural and commercial center near the borders with Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire.
  • B. Mopti
    Mopti is a major city in central Mali known as a bustling river port and commercial hub situated at the confluence of the Niger and Bani rivers.
  • C. Foumban
    Foumban is a historic Cameroonian city renowned as the cultural and political center of the Bamoun people, noted for its traditional arts, crafts, and royal palace.
  • D. Guéckédou
    Guéckédou is a town in southern Guinea known as a regional trading center near the borders with Sierra Leone and Liberia.
  • E. Koulikoro
    Koulikoro is a town and region in southwestern Mali, situated along the Niger River and serving as an important administrative and transport hub.
  • 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: Xala
Triple: [Ousmane Sembène, notableWork, Xala]
Generated description
Xala is a 1974 satirical film (and earlier novel) by Ousmane Sembène that critiques post-independence African elites through the story of a corrupt businessman afflicted with impotence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Xala
Target entity description: Xala is a 1974 satirical film (and earlier novel) by Ousmane Sembène that critiques post-independence African elites through the story of a corrupt businessman afflicted with impotence.
  • A. Sikasso
    Sikasso is a major city in southern Mali known as an important agricultural and commercial center near the borders with Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire.
  • B. Mopti
    Mopti is a major city in central Mali known as a bustling river port and commercial hub situated at the confluence of the Niger and Bani rivers.
  • C. Foumban
    Foumban is a historic Cameroonian city renowned as the cultural and political center of the Bamoun people, noted for its traditional arts, crafts, and royal palace.
  • D. Guéckédou
    Guéckédou is a town in southern Guinea known as a regional trading center near the borders with Sierra Leone and Liberia.
  • E. Koulikoro
    Koulikoro is a town and region in southwestern Mali, situated along the Niger River and serving as an important administrative and transport hub.
  • 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_69ca834a4ea0819094970dceb9e389f3 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc4728360c8190b5e600596cbced0c completed March 31, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf425b8a2c81909b1f8ce5da6d36fd completed April 3, 2026, 4:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf43bd0f8c8190be2f7dc86f1e76e1 completed April 3, 2026, 4:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf444c9cb08190a37f34faa4a3458d completed April 3, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:26 p.m.