Triple

T8972606
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Conor Cruise O'Brien E214302 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object To Katanga and Back
"To Katanga and Back" is a political and historical account by Irish diplomat and writer Conor Cruise O'Brien, detailing his experiences and analysis of the United Nations' role in the Congo Crisis of the early 1960s.
E770292 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: To Katanga and Back | Statement: [Conor Cruise O'Brien, notableWork, To Katanga and Back]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: To Katanga and Back
Context triple: [Conor Cruise O'Brien, notableWork, To Katanga and Back]
  • A. Las Reglas de Congo
    Las Reglas de Congo is an Afro-Cuban religious and magical tradition of Central African (Kongo) origin, centered on spirit veneration, ancestor worship, and ritual use of sacred cauldrons and natural forces.
  • B. Sovereign of the Congo Free State
    The Sovereign of the Congo Free State was the monarch who personally ruled the Congo Free State as a private colonial possession, most infamously held by King Leopold II of Belgium during a period marked by extreme exploitation and atrocities.
  • C. Burundi Blues
    "Burundi Blues" is a 1990s dance track by British collective Beats International that blends electronic beats with world music influences.
  • D. Anyanya Rebellion
    The Anyanya Rebellion was a southern Sudanese separatist insurgency that fought against the northern-dominated government during the First Sudanese Civil War from 1955 to 1972.
  • E. Mbanderu
    Mbanderu is a subgroup of the Herero people with its own distinct dialect and cultural traditions, primarily found in Namibia and Botswana.
  • 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: To Katanga and Back
Triple: [Conor Cruise O'Brien, notableWork, To Katanga and Back]
Generated description
"To Katanga and Back" is a political and historical account by Irish diplomat and writer Conor Cruise O'Brien, detailing his experiences and analysis of the United Nations' role in the Congo Crisis of the early 1960s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: To Katanga and Back
Target entity description: "To Katanga and Back" is a political and historical account by Irish diplomat and writer Conor Cruise O'Brien, detailing his experiences and analysis of the United Nations' role in the Congo Crisis of the early 1960s.
  • A. Las Reglas de Congo
    Las Reglas de Congo is an Afro-Cuban religious and magical tradition of Central African (Kongo) origin, centered on spirit veneration, ancestor worship, and ritual use of sacred cauldrons and natural forces.
  • B. Sovereign of the Congo Free State
    The Sovereign of the Congo Free State was the monarch who personally ruled the Congo Free State as a private colonial possession, most infamously held by King Leopold II of Belgium during a period marked by extreme exploitation and atrocities.
  • C. Burundi Blues
    "Burundi Blues" is a 1990s dance track by British collective Beats International that blends electronic beats with world music influences.
  • D. Anyanya Rebellion
    The Anyanya Rebellion was a southern Sudanese separatist insurgency that fought against the northern-dominated government during the First Sudanese Civil War from 1955 to 1972.
  • E. Mbanderu
    Mbanderu is a subgroup of the Herero people with its own distinct dialect and cultural traditions, primarily found in Namibia and Botswana.
  • 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_69ca839dbf608190a2f5990477115d29 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc678242908190a32a73423319ebb3 completed April 1, 2026, 12:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfc9632afc8190a4dc14d33e8757ee completed April 3, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfcb178d488190ab8ea897f964c10a completed April 3, 2026, 2:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfcc1bb3248190ac94ed37be2dcde4 completed April 3, 2026, 2:18 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:02 p.m.