Triple

T10060367
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mai E208971 entity
Predicate governs P760 FINISHED
Object Kanem-Bornu Empire E227595 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Kanem-Bornu Empire | Statement: [Mai, governs, Kanem-Bornu Empire]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kanem-Bornu Empire
Context triple: [Mai, governs, Kanem-Bornu Empire]
  • A. Kanem Empire chosen
    The Kanem Empire was a powerful medieval African kingdom centered around Lake Chad that flourished as a hub of trans-Saharan trade and Islamic scholarship from roughly the 9th to the 14th century.
  • B. Bambara Empire
    The Bambara Empire was a powerful 17th–19th century West African state centered in present-day Mali, known for its military expansion, vibrant trade, and rich Bambara cultural traditions.
  • C. Songhai Empire
    The Songhai Empire was a powerful and wealthy medieval West African state centered along the Niger River, renowned for its control of trans-Saharan trade and cities like Gao and Timbuktu.
  • D. Mali Empire
    The Mali Empire was a powerful medieval West African state renowned for its wealth, trans-Saharan trade networks, and centers of Islamic learning such as Timbuktu.
  • E. Fulani Empire
    The Fulani Empire was a powerful 19th-century West African Islamic state centered in what is now northern Nigeria, established through a jihad that reshaped the region’s political and religious landscape.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69ca836094408190a36a1ea7e9a86fcd completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdcfd0d23081909510785ef8a186a3 completed April 2, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d3697d5b008190b274a086172c7a7d completed April 6, 2026, 8:06 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:57 p.m.