Triple

T5797248
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chinua Achebe E128536 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object A Man of the People
A Man of the People is a satirical novel by Chinua Achebe that explores postcolonial African politics, corruption, and moral decay through the conflict between a cynical politician and his idealistic former student.
E548358 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: A Man of the People | Statement: [Chinua Achebe, notableWork, A Man of the People]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Man of the People
Context triple: [Chinua Achebe, notableWork, A Man of the People]
  • A. All the King's Men
    All the King's Men is a 2006 political drama film adapted from Robert Penn Warren’s novel about the rise and fall of a populist Southern politician.
  • B. Devil on the Cross
    Devil on the Cross is a politically charged novel by Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o that critiques neocolonialism and corruption in post-independence Kenya.
  • C. Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
    The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People is a Nigerian grassroots organization, co-founded and popularized by activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, that campaigns for the environmental, economic, and political rights of the Ogoni people in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
  • D. Freedom for My People
    "Freedom for My People" is a brief gospel-influenced musical interlude by the band U2, featured on their 1988 album and film project "Rattle and Hum."
  • E. The Big Man
    The Big Man was the towering, charismatic saxophonist Clarence Clemons, best known for his powerful performances with Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.
  • 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: A Man of the People
Triple: [Chinua Achebe, notableWork, A Man of the People]
Generated description
A Man of the People is a satirical novel by Chinua Achebe that explores postcolonial African politics, corruption, and moral decay through the conflict between a cynical politician and his idealistic former student.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Man of the People
Target entity description: A Man of the People is a satirical novel by Chinua Achebe that explores postcolonial African politics, corruption, and moral decay through the conflict between a cynical politician and his idealistic former student.
  • A. All the King's Men
    All the King's Men is a 2006 political drama film adapted from Robert Penn Warren’s novel about the rise and fall of a populist Southern politician.
  • B. Devil on the Cross
    Devil on the Cross is a politically charged novel by Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o that critiques neocolonialism and corruption in post-independence Kenya.
  • C. Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
    The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People is a Nigerian grassroots organization, co-founded and popularized by activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, that campaigns for the environmental, economic, and political rights of the Ogoni people in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
  • D. Freedom for My People
    "Freedom for My People" is a brief gospel-influenced musical interlude by the band U2, featured on their 1988 album and film project "Rattle and Hum."
  • E. The Big Man
    The Big Man was the towering, charismatic saxophonist Clarence Clemons, best known for his powerful performances with Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.
  • 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_69c00845ca68819081a2ce3ecca577f7 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02a945fe0819095e62d480c84a2b5 completed March 22, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0982ce0ac8190b9f12cedb66c5eb3 completed March 23, 2026, 1:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c099b16d148190b442739fbe2802ad completed March 23, 2026, 1:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c09a13a19c8190a04807755d16fb95 completed March 23, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:51 p.m.