Triple
T14077685
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | A Dry White Season |
E338779
|
entity |
| Predicate | starring |
P1507
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Winston Ntshona |
E392261
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Winston Ntshona | Statement: [A Dry White Season, starring, Winston Ntshona]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Winston Ntshona Context triple: [A Dry White Season, starring, Winston Ntshona]
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A.
Winston Ntshona
chosen
Winston Ntshona was a South African actor and playwright renowned for his politically charged stage work and his collaborations with Athol Fugard and John Kani, including the Tony Award-winning play "Sizwe Banzi Is Dead."
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B.
Isaías Samakuva
Isaías Samakuva is an Angolan politician best known for serving as the longtime president of the UNITA opposition party following the country’s civil war.
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C.
Thalmus Rasulala
Thalmus Rasulala was an American actor known for his roles in 1970s film and television, particularly in blaxploitation cinema and popular TV series.
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D.
Jonas Gwangwa
Jonas Gwangwa was a renowned South African jazz trombonist, composer, and anti-apartheid cultural figure who gained international recognition for his film and protest music.
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E.
Alex Magaisa
Alex Magaisa was a prominent Zimbabwean constitutional law expert, academic, and political commentator known for his influential analysis of Zimbabwe’s legal and political landscape.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d81c687b0c819087fd9ed4198403f8 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de5c5e027881908f610f5bab7598d4 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 3:25 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fcb670f51c819088e8d0137f8d3bb1 |
completed | May 7, 2026, 3:57 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:21 p.m.