Triple

T11754509
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Things Fall Apart E279489 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Obierika
Obierika is a thoughtful and reflective elder of the Igbo community in Chinua Achebe’s novel "Things Fall Apart," often serving as a moral and philosophical counterpoint to the protagonist Okonkwo.
 E945081 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: Obierika | Statement: [Things Fall Apart, mainCharacter, Obierika]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Obierika
Context triple: [Things Fall Apart, mainCharacter, Obierika]
  • A. Maurusz
    Maurusz is a Polish diminutive or affectionate form of the male given name Maurus (Maurycy).
  • B. Tyrš
    Tyrš is a Czech surname most notably associated with Miroslav Tyrš, a key founder of the Sokol physical education movement.
  • C. Łuck
    Łuck is the Polish name for Lutsk, a historic city in western Ukraine known for its medieval castle and role as a regional cultural center.
  • D. Sylko
    Sylko is a brand of sewing and embroidery threads historically associated with the textile company J. & P. Coats.
  • E. Storozhynets
    Storozhynets is a small city in western Ukraine that serves as a local administrative and cultural center in the Chernivtsi region.
  • 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: Obierika
Triple: [Things Fall Apart, mainCharacter, Obierika]
Generated description
Obierika is a thoughtful and reflective elder of the Igbo community in Chinua Achebe’s novel "Things Fall Apart," often serving as a moral and philosophical counterpoint to the protagonist Okonkwo.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Obierika
Target entity description: Obierika is a thoughtful and reflective elder of the Igbo community in Chinua Achebe’s novel "Things Fall Apart," often serving as a moral and philosophical counterpoint to the protagonist Okonkwo.
  • A. Maurusz
    Maurusz is a Polish diminutive or affectionate form of the male given name Maurus (Maurycy).
  • B. Tyrš
    Tyrš is a Czech surname most notably associated with Miroslav Tyrš, a key founder of the Sokol physical education movement.
  • C. Łuck
    Łuck is the Polish name for Lutsk, a historic city in western Ukraine known for its medieval castle and role as a regional cultural center.
  • D. Sylko
    Sylko is a brand of sewing and embroidery threads historically associated with the textile company J. & P. Coats.
  • E. Storozhynets
    Storozhynets is a small city in western Ukraine that serves as a local administrative and cultural center in the Chernivtsi region.
  • 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_69d6ab01038c819080714901502c84fc completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a50b8a14819092a7397d73f0a8e3 completed April 10, 2026, 7:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f01a21559c819097d0287dd8e2f411 completed April 28, 2026, 2:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f0319622c48190bee6c906f08c0a8c completed April 28, 2026, 4:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f05ad36e4c8190b7239e5b33713369 completed April 28, 2026, 6:59 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:41 p.m.