Triple

T12273324
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zakes Mda E292523 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Madonna of Excelsior
The Madonna of Excelsior is a novel by South African writer Zakes Mda that explores apartheid-era racial politics, forbidden relationships, and the complexities of identity in a small Free State town.
E974744 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 Madonna of Excelsior | Statement: [Zakes Mda, notableWork, The Madonna of Excelsior]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Madonna of Excelsior
Context triple: [Zakes Mda, notableWork, The Madonna of Excelsior]
  • A. The Madonna of the Candelabra
    The Madonna of the Candelabra is a Renaissance painting traditionally attributed to Raphael, depicting the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child flanked by angels and notable for its refined composition and luminous color.
  • B. The Madonna of the Yarnwinder
    The Madonna of the Yarnwinder is a Renaissance painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, depicting the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child contemplating a yarnwinder that symbolizes the cross.
  • C. Madonna delle Milizie
    Madonna delle Milizie is a revered Marian figure venerated in Scicli, Sicily, traditionally associated with a miraculous intervention in battle and celebrated as the town’s patron protectress.
  • D. Lucca Madonna
    Lucca Madonna is a small 15th-century oil painting by Jan van Eyck depicting the Virgin Mary enthroned with the Christ Child in a richly detailed domestic interior.
  • E. Madonna di San Luca
    Madonna di San Luca is a revered Marian icon housed in Bologna’s hilltop Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca, long associated with local religious devotion and processions.
  • 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 Madonna of Excelsior
Triple: [Zakes Mda, notableWork, The Madonna of Excelsior]
Generated description
The Madonna of Excelsior is a novel by South African writer Zakes Mda that explores apartheid-era racial politics, forbidden relationships, and the complexities of identity in a small Free State town.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Madonna of Excelsior
Target entity description: The Madonna of Excelsior is a novel by South African writer Zakes Mda that explores apartheid-era racial politics, forbidden relationships, and the complexities of identity in a small Free State town.
  • A. The Madonna of the Candelabra
    The Madonna of the Candelabra is a Renaissance painting traditionally attributed to Raphael, depicting the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child flanked by angels and notable for its refined composition and luminous color.
  • B. The Madonna of the Yarnwinder
    The Madonna of the Yarnwinder is a Renaissance painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, depicting the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child contemplating a yarnwinder that symbolizes the cross.
  • C. Madonna delle Milizie
    Madonna delle Milizie is a revered Marian figure venerated in Scicli, Sicily, traditionally associated with a miraculous intervention in battle and celebrated as the town’s patron protectress.
  • D. Lucca Madonna
    Lucca Madonna is a small 15th-century oil painting by Jan van Eyck depicting the Virgin Mary enthroned with the Christ Child in a richly detailed domestic interior.
  • E. Madonna di San Luca
    Madonna di San Luca is a revered Marian icon housed in Bologna’s hilltop Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca, long associated with local religious devotion and processions.
  • 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_69d6ab6856488190b5d31178d5015f8e completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d91cee7158819093fff74db6867896 completed April 10, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f61e6b50a48190b1beabd149d5830f completed May 2, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f61f9386548190a749445a404db3a2 completed May 2, 2026, 4 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6207f164c8190b663a50ee3c761d6 completed May 2, 2026, 4:04 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:52 p.m.