Triple

T2662927
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lingala E54766 entity
Predicate subfamily P4180 FINISHED
Object Congo River Bantu languages
The Congo River Bantu languages are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken along and around the Congo River basin in Central Africa, including widely used lingua francas such as Lingala.
E158283 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: Congo River Bantu languages | Statement: [Lingala, subfamily, Congo River Bantu languages]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Congo River Bantu languages
Context triple: [Lingala, subfamily, Congo River Bantu languages]
  • A. Great Lakes Bantu languages
    The Great Lakes Bantu languages are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken around Africa’s Great Lakes region, including languages such as Kirundi, Kinyarwanda, and Luganda.
  • B. Northeast Coast Bantu languages
    The Northeast Coast Bantu languages are a subgroup of Bantu languages spoken along the eastern African coast, including varieties used in parts of Kenya and Tanzania.
  • C. Western Bantu languages
    Western Bantu languages are a major geographic and linguistic subgroup of the Bantu family spoken primarily in western Central Africa, including parts of countries such as Angola, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo.
  • D. Southern Bantu languages
    Southern Bantu languages are a major branch of the Bantu language family spoken primarily in southern Africa, including well-known languages such as Zulu, Xhosa, and Shona.
  • E. Central Bantu
    Central Bantu refers to a major subgroup of Bantu languages spoken primarily in central Africa, closely related linguistically and historically to the Southern Bantu languages.
  • 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: Congo River Bantu languages
Triple: [Lingala, subfamily, Congo River Bantu languages]
Generated description
The Congo River Bantu languages are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken along and around the Congo River basin in Central Africa, including widely used lingua francas such as Lingala.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Congo River Bantu languages
Target entity description: The Congo River Bantu languages are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken along and around the Congo River basin in Central Africa, including widely used lingua francas such as Lingala.
  • A. Great Lakes Bantu languages
    The Great Lakes Bantu languages are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken around Africa’s Great Lakes region, including languages such as Kirundi, Kinyarwanda, and Luganda.
  • B. Northeast Coast Bantu languages
    The Northeast Coast Bantu languages are a subgroup of Bantu languages spoken along the eastern African coast, including varieties used in parts of Kenya and Tanzania.
  • C. Western Bantu languages chosen
    Western Bantu languages are a major geographic and linguistic subgroup of the Bantu family spoken primarily in western Central Africa, including parts of countries such as Angola, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo.
  • D. Southern Bantu languages
    Southern Bantu languages are a major branch of the Bantu language family spoken primarily in southern Africa, including well-known languages such as Zulu, Xhosa, and Shona.
  • E. Central Bantu
    Central Bantu refers to a major subgroup of Bantu languages spoken primarily in central Africa, closely related linguistically and historically to the Southern Bantu languages.
  • 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_69ab49e028948190b97e01d73548b1d9 completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd96b9f1c8190a8a9460ca88a9aaf completed March 7, 2026, 7:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af98dc36d8819086fc739c324f0761 completed March 10, 2026, 4:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af9a14cda48190bd903495ce48a4f0 completed March 10, 2026, 4:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af9a7b27608190ba76048c4c8a4bae completed March 10, 2026, 4:13 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:53 p.m.