Triple

T22884062
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Koutaba E567554 entity
Predicate locatedInUNRegion P615 FINISHED
Object Sub-Saharan Africa 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: Sub-Saharan Africa | Statement: [Koutaba, locatedInUNRegion, Sub-Saharan Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sub-Saharan Africa
Context triple: [Koutaba, locatedInUNRegion, Sub-Saharan Africa]
  • A. Sub-Saharan Africa chosen
    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.
  • B. Africa
    Africa is the world’s second-largest and second-most populous continent, known for its vast cultural diversity, rich natural resources, and significant historical and ecological importance.
  • C. 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.
  • D. East Africa
    East Africa is a region on the eastern side of the African continent, known for its diverse cultures, significant wildlife and safari tourism, and countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Ethiopia.
  • E. East Africa and Southern Africa
    East Africa and Southern Africa is a broad geographic region of the African continent encompassing countries along the eastern seaboard and the southern tip, known for its diverse cultures, landscapes, and wildlife.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: locatedInUNRegion
Context triple: [Koutaba, locatedInUNRegion, Sub-Saharan Africa]
  • A. continentOfGoverningBody
    Indicates the continent on which the governing body responsible for a given entity is located.
  • B. UNRegion chosen
    Indicates that an entity belongs to, or is associated with, a specific United Nations–defined geographic region.
  • C. hasHeadquartersInRegion
    Indicates that an organization’s main administrative or corporate headquarters is located within a specified geographic region.
  • D. geopoliticalRegion
    Indicates a relationship where an entity is a defined political or administrative geographic area, such as a country, state, province, or similar region.
  • E. worldRegion
    Indicates that one entity is a geographic region that encompasses, contains, or is associated with the other entity within the world.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (3 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_69e2458a92ec81908fc1cd5f6407d2ab completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f17fbfc5848190aa612ea51df5a9ec completed April 29, 2026, 3:49 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69ef3b6b2e2481908258156937b5a745 completed April 27, 2026, 10:33 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:39 p.m.