Triple

T13738706
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Senegambia E330021 entity
Predicate historicalPolities P8531 FINISHED
Object Kaabu Empire
The Kaabu Empire was a powerful Mandinka-dominated West African state that flourished from the 13th to the 19th century in the Senegambia region, known for its military strength and role in regional trade and culture.
E1070067 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: Kaabu Empire | Statement: [Senegambia, historicalPolities, Kaabu Empire]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kaabu Empire
Context triple: [Senegambia, historicalPolities, Kaabu Empire]
  • A. Bambara Empire
    The Bambara Empire was a powerful 17th–19th century West African state centered in present-day Mali, known for its military expansion, vibrant trade, and rich Bambara cultural traditions.
  • B. Fulani Empire
    The Fulani Empire was a powerful 19th-century West African Islamic state centered in what is now northern Nigeria, established through a jihad that reshaped the region’s political and religious landscape.
  • C. Songhai Empire
    The Songhai Empire was a powerful and wealthy medieval West African state centered along the Niger River, renowned for its control of trans-Saharan trade and cities like Gao and Timbuktu.
  • D. Kebbi Kingdom
    Kebbi Kingdom was a historic Hausa state in what is now northwestern Nigeria, known for its role in regional trade and military power in the central Sudan region.
  • E. Kanem Empire
    The Kanem Empire was a powerful medieval African kingdom centered around Lake Chad that flourished as a hub of trans-Saharan trade and Islamic scholarship from roughly the 9th to the 14th century.
  • 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: Kaabu Empire
Triple: [Senegambia, historicalPolities, Kaabu Empire]
Generated description
The Kaabu Empire was a powerful Mandinka-dominated West African state that flourished from the 13th to the 19th century in the Senegambia region, known for its military strength and role in regional trade and culture.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kaabu Empire
Target entity description: The Kaabu Empire was a powerful Mandinka-dominated West African state that flourished from the 13th to the 19th century in the Senegambia region, known for its military strength and role in regional trade and culture.
  • A. Bambara Empire
    The Bambara Empire was a powerful 17th–19th century West African state centered in present-day Mali, known for its military expansion, vibrant trade, and rich Bambara cultural traditions.
  • B. Fulani Empire
    The Fulani Empire was a powerful 19th-century West African Islamic state centered in what is now northern Nigeria, established through a jihad that reshaped the region’s political and religious landscape.
  • C. Songhai Empire
    The Songhai Empire was a powerful and wealthy medieval West African state centered along the Niger River, renowned for its control of trans-Saharan trade and cities like Gao and Timbuktu.
  • D. Kebbi Kingdom
    Kebbi Kingdom was a historic Hausa state in what is now northwestern Nigeria, known for its role in regional trade and military power in the central Sudan region.
  • E. Kanem Empire
    The Kanem Empire was a powerful medieval African kingdom centered around Lake Chad that flourished as a hub of trans-Saharan trade and Islamic scholarship from roughly the 9th to the 14th century.
  • 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_69d80772315881908f980cae40d91664 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de0204d50c8190a5413cc9a1b26e14 completed April 14, 2026, 8:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7ce64676c8190921796666ecd3dba completed May 3, 2026, 10:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f9fd56da288190b2bd33bc496c3fb9 completed May 5, 2026, 2:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fb039fdb1c8190ad5286d1cfe80a29 completed May 6, 2026, 9:02 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:55 p.m.