Triple

T16824908
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wilbur Smith E408993 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The River God
The River God is a historical adventure novel by Wilbur Smith set in ancient Egypt, following the slave Taita through war, love, and political intrigue along the Nile.
 E1234681 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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 River God | Statement: [Wilbur Smith, notableWork, The River God]

Disambiguation candidates (2 decisions)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The River God
Context triple: [Wilbur Smith, notableWork, The River God]
  • A. The Book of the River
    The Book of the River is a science fiction novel by Ian Watson that blends cosmic-scale ideas with philosophical and psychological themes along a mysterious river journey.
  • B. Beyond the River
    Beyond the River is a historical-geographical term used in ancient Near Eastern sources to denote the region west of the Euphrates River, encompassing parts of Syria and Palestine.
  • C. The Endless River
    The Endless River is a 2014 ambient and instrumental studio album by Pink Floyd, built largely from unreleased Division Bell-era recordings and serving as a final tribute to late keyboardist Richard Wright.
  • D. The River King
    The River King is a 2005 mystery drama film, based on Alice Hoffman's novel, that follows a detective investigating a student's suspicious death at an elite New England prep school.
  • E. The Stone in the River
    The Stone in the River is an alias used for Abra Stone, a powerful psychic character from Stephen King’s Bill Hodges trilogy and the novel "Doctor Sleep."
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The River God
Target entity description: The River God is a historical adventure novel by Wilbur Smith set in ancient Egypt, following the slave Taita through war, love, and political intrigue along the Nile.
  • A. The Book of the River
    The Book of the River is a science fiction novel by Ian Watson that blends cosmic-scale ideas with philosophical and psychological themes along a mysterious river journey.
  • B. Beyond the River
    Beyond the River is a historical-geographical term used in ancient Near Eastern sources to denote the region west of the Euphrates River, encompassing parts of Syria and Palestine.
  • C. The Endless River
    The Endless River is a 2014 ambient and instrumental studio album by Pink Floyd, built largely from unreleased Division Bell-era recordings and serving as a final tribute to late keyboardist Richard Wright.
  • D. The River King
    The River King is a 2005 mystery drama film, based on Alice Hoffman's novel, that follows a detective investigating a student's suspicious death at an elite New England prep school.
  • E. The Stone in the River
    The Stone in the River is an alias used for Abra Stone, a powerful psychic character from Stephen King’s Bill Hodges trilogy and the novel "Doctor Sleep."
  • F. None of above. chosen

How the object was described

The object's one-sentence description was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the object name and this triple as context.

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 River God
Triple: [Wilbur Smith, notableWork, The River God]
Generated description
The River God is a historical adventure novel by Wilbur Smith set in ancient Egypt, following the slave Taita through war, love, and political intrigue along the Nile.

Provenance (5 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d88394566c8190b3dcbdc72935f7fa elicitation completed
NER batch_69e3b310ffec81908087e5aaacc4a7c2 ner completed
NED1 batch_6a00b29c170c81908fcc88c31e266ffb ned_source_triple completed
NED2 batch_6a00b46ab0608190bc59abb99842e6d4 ned_description completed
NEDg batch_6a00b3cb7a2c8190a90ed07bc06dfc1b nedg completed
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:23 a.m.