Triple

T11796269
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Afro-Asian communities E280513 entity
Predicate historicalContext P36 FINISHED
Object Indian Ocean slave trade
The Indian Ocean slave trade was a centuries-long system of enslavement and forced migration across East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and surrounding regions that profoundly shaped Afro-Asian societies and cultures.
E947826 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 slave trade | Statement: [Afro-Asian communities, historicalContext, Indian Ocean slave trade]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Indian Ocean slave trade
Context triple: [Afro-Asian communities, historicalContext, Indian Ocean slave trade]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Lancaster slave trade
    The Lancaster slave trade was the involvement of the English city and port of Lancaster in the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • D. Dahomey and the Slave Trade
    "Dahomey and the Slave Trade" is a historical study by Karl Polanyi examining the economic and social structures of the Kingdom of Dahomey in relation to the Atlantic slave trade.
  • E. Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade
    Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade is an influential 1788 pamphlet by former slave ship captain turned Anglican clergyman John Newton, in which he condemns and details the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.
  • 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 slave trade
Triple: [Afro-Asian communities, historicalContext, Indian Ocean slave trade]
Generated description
The Indian Ocean slave trade was a centuries-long system of enslavement and forced migration across East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and surrounding regions that profoundly shaped Afro-Asian societies and cultures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Indian Ocean slave trade
Target entity description: The Indian Ocean slave trade was a centuries-long system of enslavement and forced migration across East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and surrounding regions that profoundly shaped Afro-Asian societies and cultures.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Lancaster slave trade
    The Lancaster slave trade was the involvement of the English city and port of Lancaster in the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • D. Dahomey and the Slave Trade
    "Dahomey and the Slave Trade" is a historical study by Karl Polanyi examining the economic and social structures of the Kingdom of Dahomey in relation to the Atlantic slave trade.
  • E. Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade
    Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade is an influential 1788 pamphlet by former slave ship captain turned Anglican clergyman John Newton, in which he condemns and details the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.
  • 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_69d6ab258b808190b1735835c841e3a4 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a5a1cda0819092d66a82fd882786 completed April 10, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f131110aa081909aa0b0d532e473a5 completed April 28, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f14e879aa88190a95f13e23dd346f4 completed April 29, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f156fa5cc48190a43c1d2e5df346fe completed April 29, 2026, 12:55 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:42 p.m.