Triple

T22189184
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ben Okri E548372 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object An African Elegy
An African Elegy is a poetry collection by Nigerian writer Ben Okri that blends magical realism, spiritual reflection, and political insight to explore African experience and resilience.
E1524258 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: An African Elegy | Statement: [Ben Okri, notableWork, An African Elegy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: An African Elegy
Context triple: [Ben Okri, notableWork, An African Elegy]
  • A. Homage to Africa
    Homage to Africa is a landmark free jazz album by drummer Sunny Murray, known for its adventurous improvisation and exploration of African-inspired rhythms and textures.
  • B. I Dreamed of Africa
    I Dreamed of Africa is a 2000 biographical drama film, directed by Hugh Hudson and starring Kim Basinger, that chronicles Kuki Gallmann’s life and experiences in Kenya.
  • C. Monuments to an Elegy
    Monuments to an Elegy is a 2014 alternative rock album by The Smashing Pumpkins that blends guitar-driven songs with electronic elements as part of the band’s Teargarden by Kaleidyscope project.
  • D. Letters from Africa
    Letters from Africa is a collection of Isak Dinesen’s (Karen Blixen’s) personal letters that vividly chronicle her years living and running a coffee farm in colonial Kenya.
  • E. The Song of Jacob Zulu
    The Song of Jacob Zulu is a critically acclaimed play that dramatizes the trial of a young Black South African man during apartheid, exploring themes of justice, oppression, and moral responsibility.
  • 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: An African Elegy
Triple: [Ben Okri, notableWork, An African Elegy]
Generated description
An African Elegy is a poetry collection by Nigerian writer Ben Okri that blends magical realism, spiritual reflection, and political insight to explore African experience and resilience.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: An African Elegy
Target entity description: An African Elegy is a poetry collection by Nigerian writer Ben Okri that blends magical realism, spiritual reflection, and political insight to explore African experience and resilience.
  • A. Homage to Africa
    Homage to Africa is a landmark free jazz album by drummer Sunny Murray, known for its adventurous improvisation and exploration of African-inspired rhythms and textures.
  • B. I Dreamed of Africa
    I Dreamed of Africa is a 2000 biographical drama film, directed by Hugh Hudson and starring Kim Basinger, that chronicles Kuki Gallmann’s life and experiences in Kenya.
  • C. Monuments to an Elegy
    Monuments to an Elegy is a 2014 alternative rock album by The Smashing Pumpkins that blends guitar-driven songs with electronic elements as part of the band’s Teargarden by Kaleidyscope project.
  • D. Letters from Africa
    Letters from Africa is a collection of Isak Dinesen’s (Karen Blixen’s) personal letters that vividly chronicle her years living and running a coffee farm in colonial Kenya.
  • E. The Song of Jacob Zulu
    The Song of Jacob Zulu is a critically acclaimed play that dramatizes the trial of a young Black South African man during apartheid, exploring themes of justice, oppression, and moral responsibility.
  • 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_69e11e3e0c7c8190b30d278845e2497e completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f12aab3d2c81908a3b5a5c127c4aac completed April 28, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0aa60a4de88190bd4a7902e9d4c0b8 completed May 18, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0aa6d1f634819082d1edd70217b70c completed May 18, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0aa7879e048190bd4b8e7f7cfbaec4 completed May 18, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:35 p.m.