Triple

T14819451
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mansa Magha E348405 entity
Predicate hasCapitalDuringReign P9119 FINISHED
Object Niani (traditional capital of Mali Empire)
Niani was a prominent medieval West African city that served as the political and commercial heart of the Mali Empire at the height of its power.
E1121599 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: Niani (traditional capital of Mali Empire) | Statement: [Mansa Magha, hasCapitalDuringReign, Niani (traditional capital of Mali Empire)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Niani (traditional capital of Mali Empire)
Context triple: [Mansa Magha, hasCapitalDuringReign, Niani (traditional capital of Mali Empire)]
  • A. Djenné
    Djenné is an ancient Malian town renowned for its mud-brick architecture and historic Great Mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the most famous examples of Sudano-Sahelian architecture.
  • B. Djenné Songhay
    Djenné Songhay is a regional variety of the Songhay language spoken around the town of Djenné in Mali.
  • C. Bignona
    Bignona is a town in southern Senegal’s Casamance region, known as a local center of trade and cultural diversity.
  • D. Ségou
    Ségou is a historic city in central Mali known for its role as a former Bambara kingdom capital, its Niger River location, and its rich cultural and artistic heritage.
  • E. Kaolack
    Kaolack is a major city in western Senegal known as a regional commercial hub and center of peanut 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: Niani (traditional capital of Mali Empire)
Triple: [Mansa Magha, hasCapitalDuringReign, Niani (traditional capital of Mali Empire)]
Generated description
Niani was a prominent medieval West African city that served as the political and commercial heart of the Mali Empire at the height of its power.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Niani (traditional capital of Mali Empire)
Target entity description: Niani was a prominent medieval West African city that served as the political and commercial heart of the Mali Empire at the height of its power.
  • A. Djenné
    Djenné is an ancient Malian town renowned for its mud-brick architecture and historic Great Mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the most famous examples of Sudano-Sahelian architecture.
  • B. Djenné Songhay
    Djenné Songhay is a regional variety of the Songhay language spoken around the town of Djenné in Mali.
  • C. Bignona
    Bignona is a town in southern Senegal’s Casamance region, known as a local center of trade and cultural diversity.
  • D. Ségou
    Ségou is a historic city in central Mali known for its role as a former Bambara kingdom capital, its Niger River location, and its rich cultural and artistic heritage.
  • E. Kaolack
    Kaolack is a major city in western Senegal known as a regional commercial hub and center of peanut 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_69d822eb8f588190bf53445e730a934f completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69decfe4cf38819090f25ef045351d5d completed April 14, 2026, 11:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe389940e081908ad627955cb8d52e completed May 8, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe3a315d2c81908db44e7792908e39 completed May 8, 2026, 7:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe3bda81cc8190b256ec6284383dde completed May 8, 2026, 7:39 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:50 a.m.