Triple

T3282361
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book E68900 entity
Predicate protagonist P268 FINISHED
Object Wittman Ah Sing
Wittman Ah Sing is the Chinese American, Beat-influenced aspiring writer and performance artist who serves as the central, self-mythologizing figure in Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel *Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book*.
E345188 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: Wittman Ah Sing | Statement: [Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, protagonist, Wittman Ah Sing]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wittman Ah Sing
Context triple: [Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, protagonist, Wittman Ah Sing]
  • A. Soo Beng Kiang
    Soo Beng Kiang is a former Malaysian badminton player best known as a top men's doubles specialist in the 1990s.
  • B. Hau Lee
    Hau Lee is a prominent operations and supply chain management scholar known for his influential research on global supply networks and his long-standing professorship at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
  • C. Lai Teck
    Lai Teck was the elusive and controversial secretary-general of the Malayan Communist Party before and during World War II, later exposed as a triple agent whose betrayal crippled the communist movement in Malaya.
  • D. Charles C. Tan
    Charles C. Tan was a notable benefactor and alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley, for whom the university’s chemical engineering building, Tan Hall, is named.
  • E. Ming Lee
    Ming Lee is the strict yet loving mother of protagonist Meilin in Pixar's animated film "Turning Red," whose own emotional struggles and family legacy drive much of the story's conflict and heart.
  • 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: Wittman Ah Sing
Triple: [Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, protagonist, Wittman Ah Sing]
Generated description
Wittman Ah Sing is the Chinese American, Beat-influenced aspiring writer and performance artist who serves as the central, self-mythologizing figure in Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel *Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wittman Ah Sing
Target entity description: Wittman Ah Sing is the Chinese American, Beat-influenced aspiring writer and performance artist who serves as the central, self-mythologizing figure in Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel *Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book*.
  • A. Soo Beng Kiang
    Soo Beng Kiang is a former Malaysian badminton player best known as a top men's doubles specialist in the 1990s.
  • B. Hau Lee
    Hau Lee is a prominent operations and supply chain management scholar known for his influential research on global supply networks and his long-standing professorship at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
  • C. Lai Teck
    Lai Teck was the elusive and controversial secretary-general of the Malayan Communist Party before and during World War II, later exposed as a triple agent whose betrayal crippled the communist movement in Malaya.
  • D. Charles C. Tan
    Charles C. Tan was a notable benefactor and alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley, for whom the university’s chemical engineering building, Tan Hall, is named.
  • E. Ming Lee
    Ming Lee is the strict yet loving mother of protagonist Meilin in Pixar's animated film "Turning Red," whose own emotional struggles and family legacy drive much of the story's conflict and heart.
  • 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_69ad859c463481909ca4be267336c290 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb0345d448190a1f936abe7748e33 completed March 8, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2e85528c88190b1e98c680baf3fa8 completed March 12, 2026, 4:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2ec48bf888190a5eeac0aa2cc50c3 completed March 12, 2026, 4:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2ecd134e88190933e52d7f1f5be2a completed March 12, 2026, 4:41 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:10 p.m.