Triple

T115430
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Aden (until 1937, administratively linked) E2327 entity
Predicate linkedTo P37 FINISHED
Object Indian Ocean trade network
The Indian Ocean trade network was a vast, centuries-long maritime system connecting East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia through the exchange of goods, cultures, and ideas driven by monsoon winds.
E12764 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: Indian Ocean trade network | Statement: [Aden (until 1937, administratively linked), linkedTo, Indian Ocean trade network]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Indian Ocean trade network
Context triple: [Aden (until 1937, administratively linked), linkedTo, Indian Ocean trade network]
  • A. Spanish galleon trade
    The Spanish galleon trade was a transoceanic maritime commerce system that linked Asia, the Americas, and Europe from the 16th to 19th centuries, primarily transporting silver, spices, silk, and other luxury goods across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
  • B. Atlantic slave trade
    The Atlantic slave trade was a transoceanic system from the 16th to 19th centuries in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas and sold into chattel slavery, profoundly shaping the economic and social history of the Atlantic world.
  • C. The Crossroads of the World
    The Crossroads of the World is a famous nickname for New York City's Times Square, a major commercial and entertainment hub renowned for its bright billboards, Broadway theaters, and bustling pedestrian traffic.
  • D. Colony of Aden
    The Colony of Aden was a British Crown colony centered on the port city of Aden in present-day Yemen, serving as a key strategic and commercial hub from 1937 until its incorporation into the Federation of South Arabia.
  • E. Columbian Exchange
    The Columbian Exchange was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, people, diseases, and ideas between the Americas and the rest of the world that reshaped global ecosystems, diets, populations, and economies.
  • 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: Indian Ocean trade network
Triple: [Aden (until 1937, administratively linked), linkedTo, Indian Ocean trade network]
Generated description
The Indian Ocean trade network was a vast, centuries-long maritime system connecting East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia through the exchange of goods, cultures, and ideas driven by monsoon winds.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Indian Ocean trade network
Target entity description: The Indian Ocean trade network was a vast, centuries-long maritime system connecting East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia through the exchange of goods, cultures, and ideas driven by monsoon winds.
  • A. Spanish galleon trade
    The Spanish galleon trade was a transoceanic maritime commerce system that linked Asia, the Americas, and Europe from the 16th to 19th centuries, primarily transporting silver, spices, silk, and other luxury goods across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
  • B. Atlantic slave trade
    The Atlantic slave trade was a transoceanic system from the 16th to 19th centuries in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas and sold into chattel slavery, profoundly shaping the economic and social history of the Atlantic world.
  • C. The Crossroads of the World
    The Crossroads of the World is a famous nickname for New York City's Times Square, a major commercial and entertainment hub renowned for its bright billboards, Broadway theaters, and bustling pedestrian traffic.
  • D. Colony of Aden
    The Colony of Aden was a British Crown colony centered on the port city of Aden in present-day Yemen, serving as a key strategic and commercial hub from 1937 until its incorporation into the Federation of South Arabia.
  • E. Columbian Exchange
    The Columbian Exchange was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, people, diseases, and ideas between the Americas and the rest of the world that reshaped global ecosystems, diets, populations, and economies.
  • 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_69a2506c5428819085c28a8884790e29 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a256f1278881909dc9c17113d2cca2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2917c62d8819080f6f8330efb76ed completed Feb. 28, 2026, 6:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2929077a08190a22d3b003fa026a8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2948c9fb4819089c8ae184adc44d9 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:09 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:24 a.m.