Triple

T3354932
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mandinka people E70582 entity
Predicate language P15 FINISHED
Object Mandinka language
The Mandinka language is a Mande language of West Africa widely spoken in countries such as Gambia, Senegal, Guinea, and Mali, and serves as a major lingua franca of the Mandinka people.
E351830 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: Mandinka language | Statement: [Mandinka people, language, Mandinka language]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mandinka language
Context triple: [Mandinka people, language, Mandinka language]
  • A. Banda-Ndélé language
    The Banda-Ndélé language is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Banda people, primarily in the Central African Republic.
  • B. Zande language
    The Zande language is a Central African language spoken primarily by the Azande people across parts of South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • C. Ngbandi language
    The Ngbandi language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known for being the linguistic source of the trade language Sango.
  • D. Mandar language
    Mandar is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Mandar people along the western coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia.
  • E. Dagbani language
    Dagbani is a major Gur language of northern Ghana, spoken primarily by the Dagomba people and used widely in education, media, and regional communication.
  • 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: Mandinka language
Triple: [Mandinka people, language, Mandinka language]
Generated description
The Mandinka language is a Mande language of West Africa widely spoken in countries such as Gambia, Senegal, Guinea, and Mali, and serves as a major lingua franca of the Mandinka people.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mandinka language
Target entity description: The Mandinka language is a Mande language of West Africa widely spoken in countries such as Gambia, Senegal, Guinea, and Mali, and serves as a major lingua franca of the Mandinka people.
  • A. Banda-Ndélé language
    The Banda-Ndélé language is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Banda people, primarily in the Central African Republic.
  • B. Zande language
    The Zande language is a Central African language spoken primarily by the Azande people across parts of South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • C. Ngbandi language
    The Ngbandi language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known for being the linguistic source of the trade language Sango.
  • D. Mandar language
    Mandar is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Mandar people along the western coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia.
  • E. Dagbani language
    Dagbani is a major Gur language of northern Ghana, spoken primarily by the Dagomba people and used widely in education, media, and regional communication.
  • 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_69ad85a4ef7c8190a29e2bbd6fa454e4 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb2419a808190a54fc03eeec6e42d completed March 8, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b325373a1c8190b26d883e2f0dd92b completed March 12, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b329016c7c819098b494ae5d712036 completed March 12, 2026, 8:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b329aca800819091f287a2f00557a2 completed March 12, 2026, 9:01 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:13 p.m.