Triple
T12431014
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Zaria Emirate |
E297027
|
entity |
| Predicate | historicalAffiliation |
P1168
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Caliphate of Sokoto |
E59895
|
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: Caliphate of Sokoto | Statement: [Zaria Emirate, historicalAffiliation, Caliphate of Sokoto]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Caliphate of Sokoto Context triple: [Zaria Emirate, historicalAffiliation, Caliphate of Sokoto]
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A.
Sokoto Caliphate
chosen
The Sokoto Caliphate was a powerful 19th-century Islamic empire in West Africa that became a major center of Islamic learning, governance, and trade.
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B.
Zazzau Emirate
Zazzau Emirate is a historic Hausa kingdom and traditional emirate centered on the city of Zaria, known for its role as a major political and commercial hub in precolonial northern Nigeria.
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C.
Imamate of Futa Jallon
The Imamate of Futa Jallon was an 18th–19th century Islamic theocratic state established by Fulani jihad leaders in the highlands of what is now Guinea, becoming a major center of West African Muslim scholarship and politics.
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D.
Wadai Sultanate
The Wadai Sultanate was a powerful pre-colonial Islamic kingdom in central Africa, centered in what is now eastern Chad, that dominated regional trade and politics from the early modern period until French conquest in the early 20th century.
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E.
Bornu Empire
The Bornu Empire was a powerful West African state that succeeded the Kanem Empire and dominated the Lake Chad region for centuries through trans-Saharan trade, Islamic scholarship, and military strength.
- 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_69d6ada0640c81908c061d7fb3d47786 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d94d7f2fd08190ab959742dbd8f9c0 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f79418e26c819088f3aa608d9d65d6 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 6:29 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:55 p.m.