Triple
T3015557
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Travels of Marco Polo |
E82326
|
entity |
| Predicate | setting |
P1957
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Silk Road regions |
E14028
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Silk Road regions | Statement: [The Travels of Marco Polo, setting, Silk Road regions]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silk Road regions Context triple: [The Travels of Marco Polo, setting, Silk Road regions]
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A.
Silk Road cultural sphere
The Silk Road cultural sphere was a vast transcontinental network of regions and societies linked by trade routes across Eurasia, where diverse civilizations exchanged goods, religions, technologies, and artistic traditions over many centuries.
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B.
Silk Road routes
chosen
Silk Road routes were ancient trade networks connecting East Asia with the Mediterranean and other regions, facilitating the exchange of goods, cultures, and ideas across Eurasia.
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C.
Transoxiana
Transoxiana is a historic region of Central Asia, centered between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, that served as a major cultural and commercial crossroads along the Silk Road.
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D.
Turkestan region (historical)
Turkestan region (historical) was a former administrative and cultural area in Central Asia that encompassed parts of modern-day southern Kazakhstan, including the city of Shymkent, and served as a key center of Turkic and Islamic civilization.
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E.
Transcaspia
Transcaspia was a historical region in Central Asia, largely corresponding to modern-day Turkmenistan, that lay east of the Caspian Sea and was once part of the Russian Empire.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69ad8b1eb53481908c39bbcd1ec104b2 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ad9a6b37288190a6965d183ca4b08b |
completed | March 8, 2026, 3:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b12e6b78448190beb41460314278ec |
completed | March 11, 2026, 8:57 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3 p.m.