Triple
T20946829
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Maxwell Coetzee |
E515863
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Life & Times of Michael K |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
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: Life & Times of Michael K | Statement: [John Maxwell Coetzee, notableWork, Life & Times of Michael K]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life & Times of Michael K Context triple: [John Maxwell Coetzee, notableWork, Life & Times of Michael K]
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A.
Life & Times of Michael K
chosen
Life & Times of Michael K is a Booker Prize–winning novel by J. M. Coetzee that follows a marginalized man’s journey across a war-torn South Africa, exploring themes of freedom, identity, and state power.
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B.
Season of Migration to the North
Season of Migration to the North is a landmark 1966 novel by Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih that explores themes of colonialism, identity, and cultural conflict between Europe and Africa.
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C.
A Bend in the River
A Bend in the River is a 1979 novel by V. S. Naipaul that explores postcolonial turmoil and personal dislocation in an unnamed Central African country.
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D.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1995 film adaptation of Alan Paton's classic South African novel, depicting racial injustice and reconciliation during the apartheid era.
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E.
A Dry White Season
A Dry White Season is a 1989 anti-apartheid drama film set in South Africa, based on André Brink’s novel, that explores racial injustice through the story of a white teacher who investigates the death of a Black friend in police custody.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e0b4fcd678819087a304291f14330a |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6fad97aa48190b4be692e3afce8c9 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 4:19 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:56 p.m.