Triple

T1805017
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jaffna Tamil E40200 entity
Predicate differsFrom P278 FINISHED
Object Colombo Tamil
Colombo Tamil is a dialect of Tamil spoken primarily by the Tamil community in and around Colombo, Sri Lanka, characterized by distinct phonological and lexical features influenced by urban and multilingual contact.
E201097 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: Colombo Tamil | Statement: [Jaffna Tamil, differsFrom, Colombo Tamil]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colombo Tamil
Context triple: [Jaffna Tamil, differsFrom, Colombo Tamil]
  • A. Colombo
    Colombo is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka, historically significant as a key Indian Ocean trading hub.
  • B. Jaffna Tamil
    Jaffna Tamil is a distinct regional variety of the Tamil language spoken primarily in and around Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka, known for its conservative linguistic features and unique phonology and vocabulary.
  • C. Colombo District
    Colombo District is a key administrative region in western Sri Lanka that encompasses the nation’s commercial capital and surrounding urban and suburban areas.
  • D. Jaffna
    Jaffna is a historic city in northern Sri Lanka, known as a cultural and political center of Sri Lankan Tamils and for its strategic coastal location.
  • E. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
    Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the administrative capital of Sri Lanka, located near Colombo and serving as the seat of the national legislature.
  • 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: Colombo Tamil
Triple: [Jaffna Tamil, differsFrom, Colombo Tamil]
Generated description
Colombo Tamil is a dialect of Tamil spoken primarily by the Tamil community in and around Colombo, Sri Lanka, characterized by distinct phonological and lexical features influenced by urban and multilingual contact.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colombo Tamil
Target entity description: Colombo Tamil is a dialect of Tamil spoken primarily by the Tamil community in and around Colombo, Sri Lanka, characterized by distinct phonological and lexical features influenced by urban and multilingual contact.
  • A. Colombo
    Colombo is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka, historically significant as a key Indian Ocean trading hub.
  • B. Jaffna Tamil
    Jaffna Tamil is a distinct regional variety of the Tamil language spoken primarily in and around Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka, known for its conservative linguistic features and unique phonology and vocabulary.
  • C. Colombo District
    Colombo District is a key administrative region in western Sri Lanka that encompasses the nation’s commercial capital and surrounding urban and suburban areas.
  • D. Jaffna
    Jaffna is a historic city in northern Sri Lanka, known as a cultural and political center of Sri Lankan Tamils and for its strategic coastal location.
  • E. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
    Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the administrative capital of Sri Lanka, located near Colombo and serving as the seat of the national legislature.
  • 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_69a88643a3388190a612f2ebe1fb29e7 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa659648e8819085fafb60dc03f14b completed March 6, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adb5df20948190943a60c209270b62 completed March 8, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adb69c149081908b5b819c068a1ce2 completed March 8, 2026, 5:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adb8be528c819092a5e22b099fc2a0 completed March 8, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.