Triple

T19145267
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Makurdi railway station E468661 entity
Predicate geographicRegion P285 FINISHED
Object West Africa
West Africa is a region of the African continent comprising 16 countries along the Atlantic coast and inland, known for its diverse cultures, languages, and significant historical trade routes and empires.
E12611 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 | Statement: [Makurdi railway station, geographicRegion, West Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: West Africa
Context triple: [Makurdi railway station, geographicRegion, West Africa]
  • A. West Africa
    West Africa is a region on the western coast of the African continent, historically significant for its role in trans-Saharan and Atlantic trade, diverse cultures and languages, and complex precolonial and colonial histories.
  • B. Western and Central African Region
    The Western and Central African Region is an ICAO-defined aviation area encompassing multiple countries in West and Central Africa for the coordination and regulation of international civil air navigation and safety.
  • C. Sub-Saharan Africa
    Sub-Saharan Africa is the geographically expansive and culturally diverse region of Africa located south of the Sahara Desert, encompassing dozens of countries with rapidly growing populations and economies.
  • D. Central Africa
    Central Africa is a subregion of the African continent that encompasses several landlocked and coastal countries characterized by vast rainforests, the Congo River basin, and significant cultural and linguistic diversity.
  • E. North-Central Africa
    North-Central Africa is a broad region of the African continent that spans parts of the Sahara and surrounding areas, encompassing diverse landscapes, climates, and cultures.
  • 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
Triple: [Makurdi railway station, geographicRegion, West Africa]
Generated description
West Africa is a region of the African continent comprising 16 countries along the Atlantic coast and inland, known for its diverse cultures, languages, and significant historical trade routes and empires.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: West Africa
Target entity description: West Africa is a region of the African continent comprising 16 countries along the Atlantic coast and inland, known for its diverse cultures, languages, and significant historical trade routes and empires.
  • A. West Africa chosen
    West Africa is a region on the western coast of the African continent, historically significant for its role in trans-Saharan and Atlantic trade, diverse cultures and languages, and complex precolonial and colonial histories.
  • B. Western and Central African Region
    The Western and Central African Region is an ICAO-defined aviation area encompassing multiple countries in West and Central Africa for the coordination and regulation of international civil air navigation and safety.
  • C. Sub-Saharan Africa
    Sub-Saharan Africa is the geographically expansive and culturally diverse region of Africa located south of the Sahara Desert, encompassing dozens of countries with rapidly growing populations and economies.
  • D. Central Africa
    Central Africa is a subregion of the African continent that encompasses several landlocked and coastal countries characterized by vast rainforests, the Congo River basin, and significant cultural and linguistic diversity.
  • E. North-Central Africa
    North-Central Africa is a broad region of the African continent that spans parts of the Sahara and surrounding areas, encompassing diverse landscapes, climates, and cultures.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d8dd084ff48190ac0f8c46ee722629 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5e978b0b481909a531efa030c5def completed April 20, 2026, 8:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a06f24e34c4819090954c2b79ab20bb completed May 15, 2026, 10:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a06f366e514819080de839bdde22fc2 completed May 15, 2026, 10:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a06f4039ca881908679e5da604eea50 completed May 15, 2026, 10:22 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:06 p.m.