Triple

T4946400
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kazuo Ishiguro E111060 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object When We Were Orphans
When We Were Orphans is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro that blends mystery and psychological drama as it follows an English detective revisiting his childhood in Shanghai to uncover the truth about his parents’ disappearance.
E480702 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: When We Were Orphans | Statement: [Kazuo Ishiguro, notableWork, When We Were Orphans]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: When We Were Orphans
Context triple: [Kazuo Ishiguro, notableWork, When We Were Orphans]
  • A. Song for Orphans
    "Song for Orphans" is a reflective, lyrically rich rock song by Bruce Springsteen that revisits themes of youth, faith, and idealism, featured on his 2020 album "Letter to You."
  • B. First They Killed My Father
    First They Killed My Father is a biographical war drama film depicting a Cambodian child's harrowing experiences under the Khmer Rouge regime, adapted from Loung Ung's memoir.
  • C. The Two Orphans
    The Two Orphans is a 19th-century French melodramatic play by Adolphe d’Ennery and Eugène Cormon, best known for its story of two sisters separated and endangered during the turmoil of the French Revolution and for inspiring numerous stage and film adaptations.
  • D. The Seamstress
    The Seamstress is a painting by French Post-Impressionist artist Édouard Vuillard, known for its intimate domestic interior and subtle, decorative use of color and pattern.
  • E. We Were All Uprooted
    "We Were All Uprooted" is an atmospheric, synthesizer-driven instrumental track by Vangelis, featured on his 1973 album "Earth."
  • 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: When We Were Orphans
Triple: [Kazuo Ishiguro, notableWork, When We Were Orphans]
Generated description
When We Were Orphans is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro that blends mystery and psychological drama as it follows an English detective revisiting his childhood in Shanghai to uncover the truth about his parents’ disappearance.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: When We Were Orphans
Target entity description: When We Were Orphans is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro that blends mystery and psychological drama as it follows an English detective revisiting his childhood in Shanghai to uncover the truth about his parents’ disappearance.
  • A. Song for Orphans
    "Song for Orphans" is a reflective, lyrically rich rock song by Bruce Springsteen that revisits themes of youth, faith, and idealism, featured on his 2020 album "Letter to You."
  • B. First They Killed My Father
    First They Killed My Father is a biographical war drama film depicting a Cambodian child's harrowing experiences under the Khmer Rouge regime, adapted from Loung Ung's memoir.
  • C. The Two Orphans
    The Two Orphans is a 19th-century French melodramatic play by Adolphe d’Ennery and Eugène Cormon, best known for its story of two sisters separated and endangered during the turmoil of the French Revolution and for inspiring numerous stage and film adaptations.
  • D. The Seamstress
    The Seamstress is a painting by French Post-Impressionist artist Édouard Vuillard, known for its intimate domestic interior and subtle, decorative use of color and pattern.
  • E. We Were All Uprooted
    "We Were All Uprooted" is an atmospheric, synthesizer-driven instrumental track by Vangelis, featured on his 1973 album "Earth."
  • 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_69bd441721cc819085c7e33fe0876818 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd70aa890c81908e685ec5e88cae1f completed March 20, 2026, 4:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be77c873dc81909129644cf929ed5e completed March 21, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be78db96e081909eec1b8e287e6ef9 completed March 21, 2026, 10:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be7940416881908167cd24b11d8be0 completed March 21, 2026, 10:56 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:31 p.m.