Triple

T5385378
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Balkh E120189 entity
Predicate knownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Umm al-Bilad
Umm al-Bilad is an honorific title for the ancient city of Balkh, historically a major cultural and commercial center in the region of Greater Khorasan (in present-day northern Afghanistan).
 E515451 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: Umm al-Bilad | Statement: [Balkh, knownAs, Umm al-Bilad]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Umm al-Bilad
Context triple: [Balkh, knownAs, Umm al-Bilad]
  • A. Balad
    Balad is a town in Somalia’s Banaadir region, located north of the capital Mogadishu and known as an agricultural and trading center along the Shabelle River.
  • B. Umm al-Hasan
    Umm al-Hasan was a daughter of Hasan ibn Ali, the second Shia Imam and grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, and thus a member of the early Islamic prophetic household (Ahl al-Bayt).
  • C. Umm al-Kitab
    Umm al-Kitab is an honorific title for Surah Al-Fatiha, emphasizing its foundational status as the opening and central chapter of the Qur’an.
  • D. Jabala
    Jabala is a historic coastal city in modern-day Syria that served as a significant urban center during the Crusader-era Principality of Antioch.
  • E. Al-Awja
    Al-Awja is a small village near Tikrit in northern Iraq, best known as the birthplace and burial site of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
  • 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: Umm al-Bilad
Triple: [Balkh, knownAs, Umm al-Bilad]
Generated description
Umm al-Bilad is an honorific title for the ancient city of Balkh, historically a major cultural and commercial center in the region of Greater Khorasan (in present-day northern Afghanistan).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Umm al-Bilad
Target entity description: Umm al-Bilad is an honorific title for the ancient city of Balkh, historically a major cultural and commercial center in the region of Greater Khorasan (in present-day northern Afghanistan).
  • A. Balad
    Balad is a town in Somalia’s Banaadir region, located north of the capital Mogadishu and known as an agricultural and trading center along the Shabelle River.
  • B. Umm al-Hasan
    Umm al-Hasan was a daughter of Hasan ibn Ali, the second Shia Imam and grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, and thus a member of the early Islamic prophetic household (Ahl al-Bayt).
  • C. Umm al-Kitab
    Umm al-Kitab is an honorific title for Surah Al-Fatiha, emphasizing its foundational status as the opening and central chapter of the Qur’an.
  • D. Jabala
    Jabala is a historic coastal city in modern-day Syria that served as a significant urban center during the Crusader-era Principality of Antioch.
  • E. Al-Awja
    Al-Awja is a small village near Tikrit in northern Iraq, best known as the birthplace and burial site of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
  • 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_69bd46354c648190a38b26f107010a96 completed March 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd86f5a7388190aa4ba2052afca74e completed March 20, 2026, 5:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf295352988190a48d3f9db56fcaf8 completed March 21, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf29f4c56481908d3f83ec6e7ba96a completed March 21, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf2ab19a50819098ef5a611daa8cd6 completed March 21, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:03 p.m.