Triple

T10690874
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cecil Skotnes E252003 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Assassination of Shaka
The Assassination of Shaka is a renowned graphic art cycle by South African artist Cecil Skotnes that powerfully depicts the life and death of the Zulu king Shaka through carved and painted wooden panels.
E879293 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: The Assassination of Shaka | Statement: [Cecil Skotnes, notableWork, The Assassination of Shaka]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Assassination of Shaka
Context triple: [Cecil Skotnes, notableWork, The Assassination of Shaka]
  • A. King of the Zulu
    The King of the Zulu is the traditional monarch and cultural leader of the Zulu people, a major ethnic group primarily located in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Zulu Dawn
    Zulu Dawn is a 1979 British war film dramatizing the 1879 Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War.
  • D. O Olho de Hertzog
    O Olho de Hertzog is a novel by Portuguese writer Orlando da Costa, known for its exploration of colonialism, identity, and political tension in a Lusophone African context.
  • E. Simba Rebellion
    The Simba Rebellion was a 1964 armed uprising in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, during which rebel forces briefly seized large areas of the country amid the broader Congo Crisis.
  • 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: The Assassination of Shaka
Triple: [Cecil Skotnes, notableWork, The Assassination of Shaka]
Generated description
The Assassination of Shaka is a renowned graphic art cycle by South African artist Cecil Skotnes that powerfully depicts the life and death of the Zulu king Shaka through carved and painted wooden panels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Assassination of Shaka
Target entity description: The Assassination of Shaka is a renowned graphic art cycle by South African artist Cecil Skotnes that powerfully depicts the life and death of the Zulu king Shaka through carved and painted wooden panels.
  • A. King of the Zulu
    The King of the Zulu is the traditional monarch and cultural leader of the Zulu people, a major ethnic group primarily located in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Zulu Dawn
    Zulu Dawn is a 1979 British war film dramatizing the 1879 Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War.
  • D. O Olho de Hertzog
    O Olho de Hertzog is a novel by Portuguese writer Orlando da Costa, known for its exploration of colonialism, identity, and political tension in a Lusophone African context.
  • E. Simba Rebellion
    The Simba Rebellion was a 1964 armed uprising in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, during which rebel forces briefly seized large areas of the country amid the broader Congo Crisis.
  • 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_69d6aa5bd7c08190a816e733b4045c23 completed April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d6fd3705788190bcbdef93b4c5f574 completed April 9, 2026, 1:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d988a59d6c8190a0e170acfb3af6da completed April 10, 2026, 11:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d98aeb82988190a17b009c74279423 completed April 10, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d98c2aae048190b348e5614ff23f03 completed April 10, 2026, 11:47 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:11 p.m.