Triple

T18154052
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Richard Rathbone E434581 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object West Africa: A History
West Africa: A History is a scholarly book by historian Richard Rathbone that surveys the political, social, and economic development of West Africa from precolonial times through the modern era.
E1309818 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: West Africa: A History | Statement: [Richard Rathbone, notableWork, West Africa: A History]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: West Africa: A History
Context triple: [Richard Rathbone, notableWork, West Africa: A History]
  • A. Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800
    Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800 is a scholarly book by historian Christopher Ehret that surveys the development and diversity of African societies and states from early times up to the end of the eighteenth century.
  • B. Ghana: An African Portrait
    "Ghana: An African Portrait" is a photographic book by Paul Strand that presents a nuanced visual and cultural exploration of Ghana and its people.
  • C. A History of the Colonization of the Western Coast of Africa
    *A History of the Colonization of the Western Coast of Africa* is a 19th-century historical work by American theologian Archibald Alexander that examines the origins, development, and implications of efforts to colonize West Africa, particularly through the American Colonization Society and the founding of Liberia.
  • D. An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 BC to AD 400
    An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 BC to AD 400 is a scholarly historical study by Christopher Ehret that reconstructs the political, economic, and cultural developments of eastern and southern Africa in the first millennium BC through late antiquity, situating the region within broader world history.
  • E. The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History
    The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History is a scholarly work by historian Christopher Ehret that uses archaeological and comparative linguistic evidence to trace and reinterpret the deep precolonial history of African societies.
  • 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: West Africa: A History
Triple: [Richard Rathbone, notableWork, West Africa: A History]
Generated description
West Africa: A History is a scholarly book by historian Richard Rathbone that surveys the political, social, and economic development of West Africa from precolonial times through the modern era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: West Africa: A History
Target entity description: West Africa: A History is a scholarly book by historian Richard Rathbone that surveys the political, social, and economic development of West Africa from precolonial times through the modern era.
  • A. Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800
    Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800 is a scholarly book by historian Christopher Ehret that surveys the development and diversity of African societies and states from early times up to the end of the eighteenth century.
  • B. Ghana: An African Portrait
    "Ghana: An African Portrait" is a photographic book by Paul Strand that presents a nuanced visual and cultural exploration of Ghana and its people.
  • C. A History of the Colonization of the Western Coast of Africa
    *A History of the Colonization of the Western Coast of Africa* is a 19th-century historical work by American theologian Archibald Alexander that examines the origins, development, and implications of efforts to colonize West Africa, particularly through the American Colonization Society and the founding of Liberia.
  • D. An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 BC to AD 400
    An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 BC to AD 400 is a scholarly historical study by Christopher Ehret that reconstructs the political, economic, and cultural developments of eastern and southern Africa in the first millennium BC through late antiquity, situating the region within broader world history.
  • E. The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History
    The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History is a scholarly work by historian Christopher Ehret that uses archaeological and comparative linguistic evidence to trace and reinterpret the deep precolonial history of African societies.
  • 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_69d8b90aac308190801e2c57d8c5bfe5 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4de3a99c081908e9615072e62b02f completed April 19, 2026, 1:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a038fbb1f8c8190b20e10f22090a940 completed May 12, 2026, 8:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03911462d0819080d6a59fe3b120a1 completed May 12, 2026, 8:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0392a51df48190aab14218f28f129d completed May 12, 2026, 8:50 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:30 a.m.