Triple

T340791
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hausa E6832 entity
Predicate subfamily P4180 FINISHED
Object West Chadic
West Chadic is a major branch of the Chadic languages within the Afroasiatic family, encompassing languages such as Hausa spoken primarily in West Africa.
E43179 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: West Chadic | Statement: [Hausa, subfamily, West Chadic]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: West Chadic
Context triple: [Hausa, subfamily, West Chadic]
  • A. Kanuri
    The Kanuri are a major ethnic group of the central Sahara and Lake Chad region, historically associated with the Kanem-Bornu Empire and known for their distinct language and Islamic cultural heritage.
  • B. Southern Bantoid
    Southern Bantoid is a major branch of the Bantoid languages that includes the large Bantu language family spoken across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
  • C. Songhay languages
    The Songhay languages are a group of closely related Nilo-Saharan languages spoken primarily along the Niger River in Mali, Niger, and neighboring West African countries.
  • D. Hausa
    Hausa is a major Chadic language spoken primarily in northern Nigeria and southern Niger, serving as a widespread lingua franca across West Africa.
  • E. Nilo-Saharan languages
    Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed large and diverse family of African languages spoken mainly along the Nile Valley and across parts of central and eastern Africa.
  • 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: West Chadic
Triple: [Hausa, subfamily, West Chadic]
Generated description
West Chadic is a major branch of the Chadic languages within the Afroasiatic family, encompassing languages such as Hausa spoken primarily in West Africa.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: West Chadic
Target entity description: West Chadic is a major branch of the Chadic languages within the Afroasiatic family, encompassing languages such as Hausa spoken primarily in West Africa.
  • A. Kanuri
    The Kanuri are a major ethnic group of the central Sahara and Lake Chad region, historically associated with the Kanem-Bornu Empire and known for their distinct language and Islamic cultural heritage.
  • B. Southern Bantoid
    Southern Bantoid is a major branch of the Bantoid languages that includes the large Bantu language family spoken across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
  • C. Songhay languages
    The Songhay languages are a group of closely related Nilo-Saharan languages spoken primarily along the Niger River in Mali, Niger, and neighboring West African countries.
  • D. Hausa
    Hausa is a major Chadic language spoken primarily in northern Nigeria and southern Niger, serving as a widespread lingua franca across West Africa.
  • E. Nilo-Saharan languages
    Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed large and diverse family of African languages spoken mainly along the Nile Valley and across parts of central and eastern Africa.
  • 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_69a2e7951ba08190960e90823b5078f3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2eae611f88190955fbebe2b01835b completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3d4e701408190a13f8c50c1271bb4 completed March 1, 2026, 5:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3d534891c8190adc4ffc0762730d4 completed March 1, 2026, 5:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3d5d1ed8c8190ba5306b6f2304e62 completed March 1, 2026, 5:59 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.