Triple

T21823359
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mahafaly Malagasy E538783 entity
Predicate spokenBy P2181 FINISHED
Object Mahafaly people
The Mahafaly people are an ethnic group from southwestern Madagascar known for their distinctive funerary art, including elaborately carved wooden tomb posts called aloalo.
 E1505367 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: Mahafaly people | Statement: [Mahafaly Malagasy, spokenBy, Mahafaly people]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mahafaly people
Context triple: [Mahafaly Malagasy, spokenBy, Mahafaly people]
  • A. Betsimisaraka people
    The Betsimisaraka people are one of the largest ethnic groups of Madagascar, traditionally inhabiting the island’s eastern coast and known for their maritime culture and mixed African-Asian heritage.
  • B. Betsileo people
    The Betsileo people are a prominent ethnic group of Madagascar known for their sophisticated terraced rice farming and rich highland cultural traditions.
  • C. Antandroy people
    The Antandroy people are a distinct ethnic group from the arid southern region of Madagascar, known for their pastoral lifestyle, strong warrior traditions, and rich cultural practices tied to ancestor veneration.
  • D. Antanosy people
    The Antanosy people are an ethnic group from southeastern Madagascar, traditionally known for rice cultivation, fishing, and a distinct Malagasy dialect and cultural practices.
  • E. Sakalava people
    The Sakalava people are a prominent ethnic group of western Madagascar known for their historical kingdoms, coastal trading heritage, and distinct cultural traditions within the broader Malagasy population.
  • 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: Mahafaly people
Triple: [Mahafaly Malagasy, spokenBy, Mahafaly people]
Generated description
The Mahafaly people are an ethnic group from southwestern Madagascar known for their distinctive funerary art, including elaborately carved wooden tomb posts called aloalo.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mahafaly people
Target entity description: The Mahafaly people are an ethnic group from southwestern Madagascar known for their distinctive funerary art, including elaborately carved wooden tomb posts called aloalo.
  • A. Betsimisaraka people
    The Betsimisaraka people are one of the largest ethnic groups of Madagascar, traditionally inhabiting the island’s eastern coast and known for their maritime culture and mixed African-Asian heritage.
  • B. Betsileo people
    The Betsileo people are a prominent ethnic group of Madagascar known for their sophisticated terraced rice farming and rich highland cultural traditions.
  • C. Antandroy people
    The Antandroy people are a distinct ethnic group from the arid southern region of Madagascar, known for their pastoral lifestyle, strong warrior traditions, and rich cultural practices tied to ancestor veneration.
  • D. Antanosy people
    The Antanosy people are an ethnic group from southeastern Madagascar, traditionally known for rice cultivation, fishing, and a distinct Malagasy dialect and cultural practices.
  • E. Sakalava people
    The Sakalava people are a prominent ethnic group of western Madagascar known for their historical kingdoms, coastal trading heritage, and distinct cultural traditions within the broader Malagasy population.
  • 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_69e0c475038c8190abb9b1a20eb8ff50 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f0912f69f08190b06c718aa35c2bf0 completed April 28, 2026, 10:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a4bc234b08190b8e8eb2b1d59db1e completed May 17, 2026, 11:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a4c77ad888190ab3800bc39f303e2 completed May 17, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a4de7d07c8190a0ccb1c229e7fc5d completed May 17, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:54 p.m.