Triple
T19587799
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | African Association |
E470147
|
entity |
| Predicate | commissionedExpedition |
P123304
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Denham and Clapperton expedition to Bornu and the central Sudan |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Denham and Clapperton expedition to Bornu and the central Sudan | Statement: [African Association, commissionedExpedition, Denham and Clapperton expedition to Bornu and the central Sudan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Denham and Clapperton expedition to Bornu and the central Sudan Context triple: [African Association, commissionedExpedition, Denham and Clapperton expedition to Bornu and the central Sudan]
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A.
Jackson–Harmsworth Expedition
The Jackson–Harmsworth Expedition was a late 19th-century British Arctic venture led by Frederick George Jackson that explored Franz Josef Land and contributed significantly to polar geography and the Heroic Age of polar exploration.
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B.
Bechuanaland Expedition
The Bechuanaland Expedition was a British military campaign in the mid-1880s aimed at asserting imperial control and restoring order in the Bechuanaland region of southern Africa.
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C.
Nile Expedition
The Nile Expedition, formally known as the Gordon Relief Expedition, was a British military campaign in 1884–1885 aimed at relieving General Charles Gordon during the Mahdist War in Sudan.
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D.
Nimrod Expedition
The Nimrod Expedition was Ernest Shackleton’s 1907–1909 British Antarctic expedition that made record-setting southern and polar achievements and significantly advanced scientific and geographic knowledge of Antarctica.
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E.
Burton–Speke expedition to East Africa
The Burton–Speke expedition to East Africa was a mid-19th-century British exploratory journey that sought the source of the Nile and led to the first European visits to the African Great Lakes region.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Denham and Clapperton expedition to Bornu and the central Sudan Target entity description: The Denham and Clapperton expedition to Bornu and the central Sudan was an early 19th-century British exploratory journey that significantly advanced European geographic and ethnographic knowledge of the central Sahara and Lake Chad region.
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A.
Jackson–Harmsworth Expedition
The Jackson–Harmsworth Expedition was a late 19th-century British Arctic venture led by Frederick George Jackson that explored Franz Josef Land and contributed significantly to polar geography and the Heroic Age of polar exploration.
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B.
Bechuanaland Expedition
The Bechuanaland Expedition was a British military campaign in the mid-1880s aimed at asserting imperial control and restoring order in the Bechuanaland region of southern Africa.
-
C.
Nile Expedition
The Nile Expedition, formally known as the Gordon Relief Expedition, was a British military campaign in 1884–1885 aimed at relieving General Charles Gordon during the Mahdist War in Sudan.
-
D.
Nimrod Expedition
The Nimrod Expedition was Ernest Shackleton’s 1907–1909 British Antarctic expedition that made record-setting southern and polar achievements and significantly advanced scientific and geographic knowledge of Antarctica.
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E.
Burton–Speke expedition to East Africa
The Burton–Speke expedition to East Africa was a mid-19th-century British exploratory journey that sought the source of the Nile and led to the first European visits to the African Great Lakes region.
- F. None of above. chosen
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_69d8e510024481908415c0d616fa6186 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:54 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e64052f61c81908bb49927d4246030 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 3:03 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:43 p.m.