Triple

T4793053
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Kentridge E106647 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Ubu Tells the Truth
Ubu Tells the Truth is an animated film by South African artist William Kentridge that uses his distinctive charcoal-drawing style to explore themes of power, violence, and apartheid-era injustice.
E468471 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: Ubu Tells the Truth | Statement: [William Kentridge, notableWork, Ubu Tells the Truth]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ubu Tells the Truth
Context triple: [William Kentridge, notableWork, Ubu Tells the Truth]
  • A. Portrait of Ubu
    Portrait of Ubu is a surrealist photograph by Dora Maar depicting a mysterious, organic form that became an iconic image of avant-garde art in the 1930s.
  • B. The Great Masturbator
    The Great Masturbator is a 1929 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that depicts a distorted, dreamlike self-portrait exploring themes of sexuality, anxiety, and desire.
  • C. Irma Vep
    Irma Vep is a French-American television miniseries that blends meta-cinema, crime, and dark comedy as it follows an actress remaking a classic silent-era vampire serial.
  • D. Jar of Flies
    Jar of Flies is a critically acclaimed 1994 EP by American rock band Alice in Chains, known for its dark, acoustic sound and introspective themes.
  • E. The Day of the Clown
    "The Day of the Clown" is an episode of the Doctor Who spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures, featuring a sinister clown-linked alien threat and introducing the character Rani Chandra as a new member of Sarah Jane's team.
  • 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: Ubu Tells the Truth
Triple: [William Kentridge, notableWork, Ubu Tells the Truth]
Generated description
Ubu Tells the Truth is an animated film by South African artist William Kentridge that uses his distinctive charcoal-drawing style to explore themes of power, violence, and apartheid-era injustice.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ubu Tells the Truth
Target entity description: Ubu Tells the Truth is an animated film by South African artist William Kentridge that uses his distinctive charcoal-drawing style to explore themes of power, violence, and apartheid-era injustice.
  • A. Portrait of Ubu
    Portrait of Ubu is a surrealist photograph by Dora Maar depicting a mysterious, organic form that became an iconic image of avant-garde art in the 1930s.
  • B. The Great Masturbator
    The Great Masturbator is a 1929 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that depicts a distorted, dreamlike self-portrait exploring themes of sexuality, anxiety, and desire.
  • C. Irma Vep
    Irma Vep is a French-American television miniseries that blends meta-cinema, crime, and dark comedy as it follows an actress remaking a classic silent-era vampire serial.
  • D. Jar of Flies
    Jar of Flies is a critically acclaimed 1994 EP by American rock band Alice in Chains, known for its dark, acoustic sound and introspective themes.
  • E. The Day of the Clown
    "The Day of the Clown" is an episode of the Doctor Who spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures, featuring a sinister clown-linked alien threat and introducing the character Rani Chandra as a new member of Sarah Jane's team.
  • 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_69bd43f591c881909e5a532388b0f3f3 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd66072ebc8190ae0e6cef1e7b07e4 completed March 20, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be43f0be108190aebcc9b1a824e624 completed March 21, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be44b374a081908862ebad48332d16 completed March 21, 2026, 7:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be4530fe5c8190aa976151cdd5bc7a completed March 21, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:22 p.m.