Triple

T2140922
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Asian American literature E46756 entity
Predicate notableAuthor P4290 FINISHED
Object Joy Kogawa
Joy Kogawa is a Japanese Canadian author best known for her novel "Obasan," which explores the internment and persecution of Japanese Canadians during World War II.
 E237634 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: Joy Kogawa | Statement: [Asian American literature, notableAuthor, Joy Kogawa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Joy Kogawa
Context triple: [Asian American literature, notableAuthor, Joy Kogawa]
  • A. Maxine Hong Kingston
    Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author renowned for her groundbreaking blend of autobiography, myth, and fiction in works such as "The Woman Warrior" and "China Men."
  • B. Yoko Tawada
    Yoko Tawada is a Japanese-German writer known for her innovative, multilingual literature that explores themes of language, identity, and cultural displacement.
  • C. Margaret Atwood
    Margaret Atwood is a renowned Canadian author and poet best known for her speculative fiction works such as "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Oryx and Crake."
  • D. Michael Ondaatje
    Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet best known for his Booker Prize–winning novel "The English Patient."
  • E. Helen Garner
    Helen Garner is an acclaimed Australian novelist, short story writer, and journalist known for her incisive explorations of everyday life, relationships, and moral complexity.
  • 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: Joy Kogawa
Triple: [Asian American literature, notableAuthor, Joy Kogawa]
Generated description
Joy Kogawa is a Japanese Canadian author best known for her novel "Obasan," which explores the internment and persecution of Japanese Canadians during World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Joy Kogawa
Target entity description: Joy Kogawa is a Japanese Canadian author best known for her novel "Obasan," which explores the internment and persecution of Japanese Canadians during World War II.
  • A. Maxine Hong Kingston
    Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author renowned for her groundbreaking blend of autobiography, myth, and fiction in works such as "The Woman Warrior" and "China Men."
  • B. Yoko Tawada
    Yoko Tawada is a Japanese-German writer known for her innovative, multilingual literature that explores themes of language, identity, and cultural displacement.
  • C. Margaret Atwood
    Margaret Atwood is a renowned Canadian author and poet best known for her speculative fiction works such as "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Oryx and Crake."
  • D. Michael Ondaatje
    Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet best known for his Booker Prize–winning novel "The English Patient."
  • E. Helen Garner
    Helen Garner is an acclaimed Australian novelist, short story writer, and journalist known for her incisive explorations of everyday life, relationships, and moral complexity.
  • 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_69a88a174ab48190a5db20c132e5dccf completed March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbe04135c8190ab100b4b3879cb01 completed March 7, 2026, 5:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae51b37ce08190add9df46cc17ba89 completed March 9, 2026, 4:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae52e539f081908424c4093c125861 completed March 9, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae5357e1088190bcffccb37030f3fc completed March 9, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:44 p.m.