Triple
T2083506
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The God of Small Things |
E45295
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacters |
P9202
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Velutha
Velutha is a skilled Paravan carpenter and central tragic figure in Arundhati Roy’s novel "The God of Small Things," whose forbidden love and Dalit identity expose the brutality of caste and social hypocrisy.
|
E232306
|
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: Velutha | Statement: [The God of Small Things, mainCharacters, Velutha]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Velutha Context triple: [The God of Small Things, mainCharacters, Velutha]
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A.
Kovalan
Kovalan is a tragic hero from ancient Tamil literature, best known as the ill-fated husband of Kannagi in the epic Silappatikaram.
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B.
Kovai
Kovai is the commonly used local name for Coimbatore, a major industrial and educational city in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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C.
Venkata
Venkata is the given name of Indian physicist and Nobel laureate C. V. Raman, renowned for discovering the Raman effect in light scattering.
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D.
Alamelu Mangamma
Alamelu Mangamma was the wife of C. Rajagopalachari, a prominent Indian independence activist and the last Governor-General of India.
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E.
Shabara Svamin
Shabara Svamin was an influential early Indian philosopher and commentator whose work on the Mimamsa school’s foundational texts significantly shaped Hindu ritual and hermeneutic thought.
- 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: Velutha Triple: [The God of Small Things, mainCharacters, Velutha]
Generated description
Velutha is a skilled Paravan carpenter and central tragic figure in Arundhati Roy’s novel "The God of Small Things," whose forbidden love and Dalit identity expose the brutality of caste and social hypocrisy.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Velutha Target entity description: Velutha is a skilled Paravan carpenter and central tragic figure in Arundhati Roy’s novel "The God of Small Things," whose forbidden love and Dalit identity expose the brutality of caste and social hypocrisy.
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A.
Kovalan
Kovalan is a tragic hero from ancient Tamil literature, best known as the ill-fated husband of Kannagi in the epic Silappatikaram.
-
B.
Kovai
Kovai is the commonly used local name for Coimbatore, a major industrial and educational city in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
-
C.
Venkata
Venkata is the given name of Indian physicist and Nobel laureate C. V. Raman, renowned for discovering the Raman effect in light scattering.
-
D.
Alamelu Mangamma
Alamelu Mangamma was the wife of C. Rajagopalachari, a prominent Indian independence activist and the last Governor-General of India.
-
E.
Shabara Svamin
Shabara Svamin was an influential early Indian philosopher and commentator whose work on the Mimamsa school’s foundational texts significantly shaped Hindu ritual and hermeneutic thought.
- 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_69a8891869c88190a02643e3bb746f59 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abba524b60819089a11957ce6dbc4b |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:40 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ae273d3f5881909fa6d935fa85c225 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 1:49 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ae2a5767388190b16c0d2ce3af647c |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:03 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ae2b5ff1b88190a9754f0e892b6607 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:07 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.