Triple

T11921421
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Hanning Speke E283664 entity
Predicate participantIn P149 FINISHED
Object Burton–Speke expedition to East Africa
The Burton–Speke expedition to East Africa was a mid-19th-century British exploratory journey that sought the source of the Nile and led to the first European visits to the African Great Lakes region.
E954634 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: Burton–Speke expedition to East Africa | Statement: [John Hanning Speke, participantIn, Burton–Speke expedition to East Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Burton–Speke expedition to East Africa
Context triple: [John Hanning Speke, participantIn, Burton–Speke expedition to East Africa]
  • A. Zambezi expedition
    The Zambezi expedition was a mid-19th-century British exploratory and scientific journey, led by David Livingstone, aimed at charting the Zambezi River and assessing its potential for commerce and missionary work in central Africa.
  • B. Bechuanaland Expedition
    The Bechuanaland Expedition was a British military campaign in the mid-1880s aimed at asserting imperial control and restoring order in the Bechuanaland region of southern Africa.
  • C. Nimrod Expedition
    The Nimrod Expedition was Ernest Shackleton’s 1907–1909 British Antarctic expedition that made record-setting southern and polar achievements and significantly advanced scientific and geographic knowledge of Antarctica.
  • D. 1906 Ruwenzori expedition
    The 1906 Ruwenzori expedition was an Italian-led mountaineering and scientific journey that achieved the first ascents of several peaks in Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains and conducted extensive geographic and glaciological studies.
  • E. Forbes Expedition
    The Forbes Expedition was a 1758 British military campaign during the French and Indian War that successfully captured Fort Duquesne, securing the Ohio Country and paving the way for the founding of Pittsburgh.
  • 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: Burton–Speke expedition to East Africa
Triple: [John Hanning Speke, participantIn, Burton–Speke expedition to East Africa]
Generated description
The Burton–Speke expedition to East Africa was a mid-19th-century British exploratory journey that sought the source of the Nile and led to the first European visits to the African Great Lakes region.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Burton–Speke expedition to East Africa
Target entity description: The Burton–Speke expedition to East Africa was a mid-19th-century British exploratory journey that sought the source of the Nile and led to the first European visits to the African Great Lakes region.
  • A. Zambezi expedition
    The Zambezi expedition was a mid-19th-century British exploratory and scientific journey, led by David Livingstone, aimed at charting the Zambezi River and assessing its potential for commerce and missionary work in central Africa.
  • B. Bechuanaland Expedition
    The Bechuanaland Expedition was a British military campaign in the mid-1880s aimed at asserting imperial control and restoring order in the Bechuanaland region of southern Africa.
  • C. Nimrod Expedition
    The Nimrod Expedition was Ernest Shackleton’s 1907–1909 British Antarctic expedition that made record-setting southern and polar achievements and significantly advanced scientific and geographic knowledge of Antarctica.
  • D. 1906 Ruwenzori expedition
    The 1906 Ruwenzori expedition was an Italian-led mountaineering and scientific journey that achieved the first ascents of several peaks in Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains and conducted extensive geographic and glaciological studies.
  • E. Forbes Expedition
    The Forbes Expedition was a 1758 British military campaign during the French and Indian War that successfully captured Fort Duquesne, securing the Ohio Country and paving the way for the founding of Pittsburgh.
  • 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_69d6ab2ce9c48190b5d39511b524f666 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8e8e1b08481909ed291667035f330 completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f44033c288819099587af3f895eac5 completed May 1, 2026, 5:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f448fa8eec81909fe6ac0902f46998 completed May 1, 2026, 6:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f44aef15148190ba8090681b921ffa completed May 1, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:45 p.m.