Triple

T6919825
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Salman Rushdie bibliography E160153 entity
Predicate includesWork P2011 FINISHED
Object Shalimar the Clown
Shalimar the Clown is a novel by Salman Rushdie that intertwines a tragic love story with political violence and terrorism, set against the backdrop of Kashmir and spanning several continents and decades.
E628526 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: Shalimar the Clown | Statement: [Salman Rushdie bibliography, includesWork, Shalimar the Clown]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shalimar the Clown
Context triple: [Salman Rushdie bibliography, includesWork, Shalimar the Clown]
  • A. Clowns
    "Clowns" is a photographic series by Cindy Sherman in which she uses elaborate costumes and makeup to explore identity, performance, and the unsettling aspects of clown imagery.
  • B. A Thousand Clowns
    A Thousand Clowns is a 1962 stage comedy by Herb Gardner, later adapted into a 1965 film, about an eccentric bachelor fighting to retain custody of his nephew while resisting conformity.
  • C. Baghead
    Baghead is a 2008 indie horror-comedy film about struggling filmmakers who retreat to a cabin in the woods to write a screenplay, only to encounter a mysterious figure with a bag over their head.
  • D. That Yellow Bastard
    That Yellow Bastard is a neo-noir crime thriller segment of Frank Miller’s Sin City, centered on an aging cop’s final battle to save a young woman from a grotesquely deformed serial predator.
  • 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: Shalimar the Clown
Triple: [Salman Rushdie bibliography, includesWork, Shalimar the Clown]
Generated description
Shalimar the Clown is a novel by Salman Rushdie that intertwines a tragic love story with political violence and terrorism, set against the backdrop of Kashmir and spanning several continents and decades.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shalimar the Clown
Target entity description: Shalimar the Clown is a novel by Salman Rushdie that intertwines a tragic love story with political violence and terrorism, set against the backdrop of Kashmir and spanning several continents and decades.
  • A. Clowns
    "Clowns" is a photographic series by Cindy Sherman in which she uses elaborate costumes and makeup to explore identity, performance, and the unsettling aspects of clown imagery.
  • B. A Thousand Clowns
    A Thousand Clowns is a 1962 stage comedy by Herb Gardner, later adapted into a 1965 film, about an eccentric bachelor fighting to retain custody of his nephew while resisting conformity.
  • C. Baghead
    Baghead is a 2008 indie horror-comedy film about struggling filmmakers who retreat to a cabin in the woods to write a screenplay, only to encounter a mysterious figure with a bag over their head.
  • D. That Yellow Bastard
    That Yellow Bastard is a neo-noir crime thriller segment of Frank Miller’s Sin City, centered on an aging cop’s final battle to save a young woman from a grotesquely deformed serial predator.
  • 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_69c6883ab1008190a07129ff06f625d9 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d9f8fc888190949d5779ccbe91e6 completed March 27, 2026, 7:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7512f7fac81908d0891f4de301535 completed March 28, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c751db72408190b89e2ab08730ca43 completed March 28, 2026, 3:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c75264e65081908859551feaf1006c completed March 28, 2026, 4 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:26 p.m.