Triple

T12273347
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zakes Mda E292523 entity
Predicate awardReceived P11 FINISHED
Object Sunday Times Fiction Prize
The Sunday Times Fiction Prize is a prestigious South African literary award recognizing outstanding works of fiction by local authors.
 E974751 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: Sunday Times Fiction Prize | Statement: [Zakes Mda, awardReceived, Sunday Times Fiction Prize]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sunday Times Fiction Prize
Context triple: [Zakes Mda, awardReceived, Sunday Times Fiction Prize]
  • A. Commonwealth Short Story Prize
    The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is an annual international literary award that recognizes and promotes outstanding unpublished short fiction by writers from Commonwealth countries.
  • B. Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
    The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award is a prestigious British literary prize that recognizes outstanding works by emerging authors aged 35 or under.
  • C. The Writers' Prize for Fiction
    The Writers' Prize for Fiction is a British literary award that recognizes outstanding works of fiction by contemporary writers.
  • D. Whitbread Novel Award
    The Whitbread Novel Award was a major British literary prize, later renamed the Costa Book Award for Novel, recognizing outstanding works of fiction by authors based in the UK and Ireland.
  • E. Guardian Fiction Prize
    The Guardian Fiction Prize was a prestigious British literary award presented annually by The Guardian newspaper to recognize outstanding works of contemporary fiction.
  • 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: Sunday Times Fiction Prize
Triple: [Zakes Mda, awardReceived, Sunday Times Fiction Prize]
Generated description
The Sunday Times Fiction Prize is a prestigious South African literary award recognizing outstanding works of fiction by local authors.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sunday Times Fiction Prize
Target entity description: The Sunday Times Fiction Prize is a prestigious South African literary award recognizing outstanding works of fiction by local authors.
  • A. Commonwealth Short Story Prize
    The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is an annual international literary award that recognizes and promotes outstanding unpublished short fiction by writers from Commonwealth countries.
  • B. Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
    The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award is a prestigious British literary prize that recognizes outstanding works by emerging authors aged 35 or under.
  • C. The Writers' Prize for Fiction
    The Writers' Prize for Fiction is a British literary award that recognizes outstanding works of fiction by contemporary writers.
  • D. Whitbread Novel Award
    The Whitbread Novel Award was a major British literary prize, later renamed the Costa Book Award for Novel, recognizing outstanding works of fiction by authors based in the UK and Ireland.
  • E. Guardian Fiction Prize
    The Guardian Fiction Prize was a prestigious British literary award presented annually by The Guardian newspaper to recognize outstanding works of contemporary fiction.
  • 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.