Triple

T531444
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Timurid dynasty E12231 entity
Predicate hasCapital P204 FINISHED
Object Herat
Herat is a historic city in western Afghanistan that flourished as a major cultural and political center of the Timurid Empire and a key hub on the Silk Road.
 E66483 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: Herat | Statement: [Timurid dynasty, hasCapital, Herat]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Herat
Context triple: [Timurid dynasty, hasCapital, Herat]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Mardan
    Mardan is a major city in northern Pakistan known as an important commercial and cultural center of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
  • C. Nasirabad
    Nasirabad is a town and administrative area located in the Balochistan region of present-day Pakistan.
  • D. 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.
  • 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: Herat
Triple: [Timurid dynasty, hasCapital, Herat]
Generated description
Herat is a historic city in western Afghanistan that flourished as a major cultural and political center of the Timurid Empire and a key hub on the Silk Road.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Herat
Target entity description: Herat is a historic city in western Afghanistan that flourished as a major cultural and political center of the Timurid Empire and a key hub on the Silk Road.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Mardan
    Mardan is a major city in northern Pakistan known as an important commercial and cultural center of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
  • C. Nasirabad
    Nasirabad is a town and administrative area located in the Balochistan region of present-day Pakistan.
  • D. 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.
  • 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_69a4b8add810819095f071caca108e10 completed March 1, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4b9bb6c30819088d4d3cfab10408c completed March 1, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4ba8630508190b6ba32ad0aef2cd2 completed March 1, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.