Triple

T531443
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Timurid dynasty E12231 entity
Predicate hasCapital P204 FINISHED
Object Samarkand
Samarkand is an ancient Silk Road city in present-day Uzbekistan renowned for its Timurid-era Islamic architecture and role as a major cultural and commercial center of Central Asia.
E66141 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: Samarkand | Statement: [Timurid dynasty, hasCapital, Samarkand]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samarkand
Context triple: [Timurid dynasty, hasCapital, Samarkand]
  • A. Bukhara, Uzbekistan
    Bukhara, Uzbekistan is an ancient Silk Road city renowned for its well-preserved Islamic architecture and historic center, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  • B. Derbent
    Derbent is an ancient fortified city in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, strategically located on the Caspian Sea and known as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the region.
  • C. Nishapur
    Nishapur is an ancient city in northeastern Iran that flourished as a major political, commercial, and intellectual hub along the Silk Road, especially during the early Islamic and Abbasid periods.
  • D. Karaganda
    Karaganda is a large industrial city in central Kazakhstan known for its coal mining industry and Soviet-era history.
  • E. Kabul
    Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, serving as its political, cultural, and economic center in the eastern part of the country.
  • 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: Samarkand
Triple: [Timurid dynasty, hasCapital, Samarkand]
Generated description
Samarkand is an ancient Silk Road city in present-day Uzbekistan renowned for its Timurid-era Islamic architecture and role as a major cultural and commercial center of Central Asia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samarkand
Target entity description: Samarkand is an ancient Silk Road city in present-day Uzbekistan renowned for its Timurid-era Islamic architecture and role as a major cultural and commercial center of Central Asia.
  • A. Bukhara, Uzbekistan
    Bukhara, Uzbekistan is an ancient Silk Road city renowned for its well-preserved Islamic architecture and historic center, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  • B. Derbent
    Derbent is an ancient fortified city in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, strategically located on the Caspian Sea and known as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the region.
  • C. Nishapur
    Nishapur is an ancient city in northeastern Iran that flourished as a major political, commercial, and intellectual hub along the Silk Road, especially during the early Islamic and Abbasid periods.
  • D. Karaganda
    Karaganda is a large industrial city in central Kazakhstan known for its coal mining industry and Soviet-era history.
  • E. Kabul
    Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, serving as its political, cultural, and economic center in the eastern part of the country.
  • 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_69a4933208e88190891f5debab1b776d completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a494df2c388190bf1b7672a25137af completed March 1, 2026, 7:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4b5dbae7481909b0bb603c4a1ab31 completed March 1, 2026, 9:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4b64487bc8190b879ddedc1585a04 completed March 1, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4b6ca3398819094bfbac0ba7a9c66 completed March 1, 2026, 9:59 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.