Triple

T1086255
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Cairo Trilogy E24056 entity
Predicate centralCharacter P9202 FINISHED
Object al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad
al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad is the authoritarian yet pleasure-seeking patriarch whose complex personality and family life anchor Naguib Mahfouz’s renowned Cairo Trilogy.
E135841 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: al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad | Statement: [The Cairo Trilogy, centralCharacter, al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad
Context triple: [The Cairo Trilogy, centralCharacter, al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad]
  • A. Sheikh Othman
    Sheikh Othman is a district in the city of Aden in southern Yemen, historically part of the former British Colony of Aden.
  • B. Hamzah bin Hussein
    Hamzah bin Hussein is a Jordanian prince, the half-brother of King Abdullah II and former crown prince of Jordan.
  • C. Abd al‑Qadir al‑Jilani
    Abd al‑Qadir al‑Jilani was a prominent 12th‑century Islamic scholar and mystic revered as the founder of the Qadiriyya Sufi order and a major spiritual figure in Sunni Islam.
  • D. Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī
    Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī, better known as Saadia Gaon, was a prominent 10th-century Jewish philosopher, exegete, and Gaon of the Sura academy, renowned for his works on Jewish law, grammar, and rational theology.
  • E. Ibn Muqla
    Ibn Muqla was a 10th-century Abbasid vizier and master calligrapher renowned for codifying the proportional rules that shaped classical Arabic scripts, especially Naskh.
  • 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: al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad
Triple: [The Cairo Trilogy, centralCharacter, al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad]
Generated description
al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad is the authoritarian yet pleasure-seeking patriarch whose complex personality and family life anchor Naguib Mahfouz’s renowned Cairo Trilogy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad
Target entity description: al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad is the authoritarian yet pleasure-seeking patriarch whose complex personality and family life anchor Naguib Mahfouz’s renowned Cairo Trilogy.
  • A. Sheikh Othman
    Sheikh Othman is a district in the city of Aden in southern Yemen, historically part of the former British Colony of Aden.
  • B. Hamzah bin Hussein
    Hamzah bin Hussein is a Jordanian prince, the half-brother of King Abdullah II and former crown prince of Jordan.
  • C. Abd al‑Qadir al‑Jilani
    Abd al‑Qadir al‑Jilani was a prominent 12th‑century Islamic scholar and mystic revered as the founder of the Qadiriyya Sufi order and a major spiritual figure in Sunni Islam.
  • D. Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī
    Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī, better known as Saadia Gaon, was a prominent 10th-century Jewish philosopher, exegete, and Gaon of the Sura academy, renowned for his works on Jewish law, grammar, and rational theology.
  • E. Ibn Muqla
    Ibn Muqla was a 10th-century Abbasid vizier and master calligrapher renowned for codifying the proportional rules that shaped classical Arabic scripts, especially Naskh.
  • 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_69a49404428c819092dcc9632f5f7b8b completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b963161081908a523c8d63871652 completed March 1, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac763a7cd481909bf83a2e67c0d9f5 completed March 7, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac76aea5f88190b15ec903a2f952bc completed March 7, 2026, 7:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac770b03f88190ac47ad3fcace0b54 completed March 7, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.