Triple

T480406
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Northern Nigeria E9154 entity
Predicate hasMajorCity P316 FINISHED
Object Maiduguri
Maiduguri is a major city in northeastern Nigeria that serves as the capital of Borno State and a key economic and administrative center in the region.
 E60433 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: Maiduguri | Statement: [Northern Nigeria, hasMajorCity, Maiduguri]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Maiduguri
Context triple: [Northern Nigeria, hasMajorCity, Maiduguri]
  • A. Kano
    Kano is a major commercial and industrial city in northern Nigeria and one of the country’s oldest urban centers.
  • B. Mogadishu
    Mogadishu is the capital and largest city of Somalia, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural center on the Horn of Africa.
  • C. Badr City
    Badr City is a planned satellite city in Egypt that forms part of the Greater Cairo metropolitan area, known for its industrial zones and residential developments.
  • D. Tripoli
    Tripoli is a historic Mediterranean port city that serves as the capital and largest urban center of Libya.
  • E. Khartoum
    Khartoum is the capital and largest city of Sudan, located at the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers and serving as a major political, economic, and cultural center in the region.
  • 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: Maiduguri
Triple: [Northern Nigeria, hasMajorCity, Maiduguri]
Generated description
Maiduguri is a major city in northeastern Nigeria that serves as the capital of Borno State and a key economic and administrative center in the region.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Maiduguri
Target entity description: Maiduguri is a major city in northeastern Nigeria that serves as the capital of Borno State and a key economic and administrative center in the region.
  • A. Kano
    Kano is a major commercial and industrial city in northern Nigeria and one of the country’s oldest urban centers.
  • B. Mogadishu
    Mogadishu is the capital and largest city of Somalia, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural center on the Horn of Africa.
  • C. Badr City
    Badr City is a planned satellite city in Egypt that forms part of the Greater Cairo metropolitan area, known for its industrial zones and residential developments.
  • D. Tripoli
    Tripoli is a historic Mediterranean port city that serves as the capital and largest urban center of Libya.
  • E. Khartoum
    Khartoum is the capital and largest city of Sudan, located at the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers and serving as a major political, economic, and cultural center in the region.
  • 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_69a2e7ff81708190b0507a24a997232c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f057c4ac819080cf43ffaa56c350 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4711ea1dc8190ac4bf0efaf0890b7 completed March 1, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a47275bfd08190ad6a6275b981caf2 completed March 1, 2026, 5:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a472c4e1708190853f390eeb0edf8a completed March 1, 2026, 5:09 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.