Triple
T922541
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | American Book Award |
E19913
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableRecipient |
P108
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o |
E103150
|
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: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Statement: [American Book Award, notableRecipient, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Context triple: [American Book Award, notableRecipient, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o]
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A.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
chosen
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is a Kenyan writer, theorist of postcolonial literature, and prominent advocate for African languages whose novels, essays, and plays critique colonialism and its legacies.
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B.
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate renowned for his works exploring themes of colonialism, displacement, and migration.
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C.
Breyten Breytenbach
Breyten Breytenbach is a renowned South African Afrikaans poet, writer, and painter known for his anti-apartheid activism and influential literary work.
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D.
Mia Couto
Mia Couto is a Mozambican writer renowned for his lyrical, magical-realist prose that explores postcolonial identity, memory, and social change in Lusophone Africa.
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E.
Olara Otunnu
Olara Otunnu is a Ugandan diplomat, lawyer, and human rights advocate known for his work on behalf of war-affected children and his leadership roles at the United Nations.
- 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_69a493a099788190a696d9d8408cbaf4 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4b314f6fc81908a3ccc2e741e3c2b |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:43 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a7cf6652d0819084d6216646bd4fc5 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 6:21 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.