Triple

T12168752
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Damballa E289899 entity
Predicate veneratedBy P8505 FINISHED
Object Houngans
Houngans are male priests in Haitian Vodou who serve as spiritual leaders, ritual specialists, and intermediaries between humans and the loa (spirits).
E964382 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: Houngans | Statement: [Damballa, veneratedBy, Houngans]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Houngans
Context triple: [Damballa, veneratedBy, Houngans]
  • A. Marapu priests
    Marapu priests are traditional religious leaders of the indigenous Marapu belief system in Sumba, Indonesia, responsible for conducting rituals, sacrifices, and ceremonies that mediate between humans and ancestral spirits.
  • B. Mazu
    Mazu is a revered Chinese sea goddess and patron deity of sailors and coastal communities, especially venerated in southern China and Taiwan.
  • C. Banlam people
    The Banlam people, also known as Hoklo, are a Han Chinese subgroup originating from southern Fujian whose language and culture have significantly influenced communities across Southeast Asia and beyond.
  • D. Wong-Goo-Tt-Oo people
    The Wong-Goo-Tt-Oo people are an Aboriginal Australian group whose ancestral lands lie in the coastal and island regions of Western Australia’s Pilbara, with deep cultural, spiritual, and historical connections to that country.
  • E. Gongnie
    Gongnie was the personal name of King You of Zhou, the last king of the Western Zhou dynasty in ancient China.
  • 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: Houngans
Triple: [Damballa, veneratedBy, Houngans]
Generated description
Houngans are male priests in Haitian Vodou who serve as spiritual leaders, ritual specialists, and intermediaries between humans and the loa (spirits).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Houngans
Target entity description: Houngans are male priests in Haitian Vodou who serve as spiritual leaders, ritual specialists, and intermediaries between humans and the loa (spirits).
  • A. Marapu priests
    Marapu priests are traditional religious leaders of the indigenous Marapu belief system in Sumba, Indonesia, responsible for conducting rituals, sacrifices, and ceremonies that mediate between humans and ancestral spirits.
  • B. Mazu
    Mazu is a revered Chinese sea goddess and patron deity of sailors and coastal communities, especially venerated in southern China and Taiwan.
  • C. Banlam people
    The Banlam people, also known as Hoklo, are a Han Chinese subgroup originating from southern Fujian whose language and culture have significantly influenced communities across Southeast Asia and beyond.
  • D. Wong-Goo-Tt-Oo people
    The Wong-Goo-Tt-Oo people are an Aboriginal Australian group whose ancestral lands lie in the coastal and island regions of Western Australia’s Pilbara, with deep cultural, spiritual, and historical connections to that country.
  • E. Gongnie
    Gongnie was the personal name of King You of Zhou, the last king of the Western Zhou dynasty in ancient China.
  • 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_69d6ab4d6c00819095a9a7c35de83cfb completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d915d85c088190a74fb7590877659b completed April 10, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f5f6a45568819090662cd3547c9253 completed May 2, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f5ff826ea08190a6780351e4b927ac completed May 2, 2026, 1:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f60185ce8c8190abe3b1f633aac55d completed May 2, 2026, 1:52 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:50 p.m.