Triple
T19213920
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | North West Nigeria |
E480427
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasHistoricFeature |
P182
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Sokoto Sultanate |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Sokoto Sultanate | Statement: [North West Nigeria, hasHistoricFeature, Sokoto Sultanate]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sokoto Sultanate Context triple: [North West Nigeria, hasHistoricFeature, Sokoto Sultanate]
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A.
Sokoto Caliphate
chosen
The Sokoto Caliphate was a powerful 19th-century Islamic empire in West Africa that became a major center of Islamic learning, governance, and trade.
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B.
Zazzau Emirate
Zazzau Emirate is a historic Hausa kingdom and traditional emirate centered on the city of Zaria, known for its role as a major political and commercial hub in precolonial northern Nigeria.
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C.
Wadai Sultanate
The Wadai Sultanate was a powerful pre-colonial Islamic kingdom in central Africa, centered in what is now eastern Chad, that dominated regional trade and politics from the early modern period until French conquest in the early 20th century.
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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.
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E.
Funj Sultanate
The Funj Sultanate was an early modern Islamic kingdom in what is now Sudan, known for unifying much of the Nile Valley region and fostering a distinctive blend of African and Arab cultures.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8e8cb8c348190b52075823911c869 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5fa38c0e881908e9501ee21d0f266 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 10:04 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:22 p.m.