Triple

T5798389
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colombo District E128561 entity
Predicate region P40 FINISHED
Object Western Sri Lanka
Western Sri Lanka is a coastal region of Sri Lanka that includes the nation’s commercial and administrative hub around Colombo and its surrounding urban and suburban areas.
E549052 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: Western Sri Lanka | Statement: [Colombo District, region, Western Sri Lanka]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Sri Lanka
Context triple: [Colombo District, region, Western Sri Lanka]
  • A. Eastern Development Region of Sri Lanka
    The Eastern Development Region of Sri Lanka is an administrative planning and development area that encompasses the country’s Eastern Province and coordinates regional economic and infrastructural initiatives.
  • B. Southern Province, Sri Lanka
    Southern Province, Sri Lanka is a coastal administrative region in the south of Sri Lanka known for its historic cities, beaches, and cultural heritage.
  • C. Northern Province, Sri Lanka
    Northern Province, Sri Lanka is the island nation’s northernmost province, centered on the Jaffna Peninsula and known for its Tamil cultural heritage and post-civil war reconstruction.
  • D. Central Province of Sri Lanka
    The Central Province of Sri Lanka is a mountainous inland region known for its historic cities like Kandy, tea plantations, and cultural significance as a heartland of Sinhalese heritage.
  • E. Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka
    Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka is a southwestern administrative region known for its lush rainforests, gem mining (especially in Ratnapura), and rich cultural heritage.
  • 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: Western Sri Lanka
Triple: [Colombo District, region, Western Sri Lanka]
Generated description
Western Sri Lanka is a coastal region of Sri Lanka that includes the nation’s commercial and administrative hub around Colombo and its surrounding urban and suburban areas.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Sri Lanka
Target entity description: Western Sri Lanka is a coastal region of Sri Lanka that includes the nation’s commercial and administrative hub around Colombo and its surrounding urban and suburban areas.
  • A. Eastern Development Region of Sri Lanka
    The Eastern Development Region of Sri Lanka is an administrative planning and development area that encompasses the country’s Eastern Province and coordinates regional economic and infrastructural initiatives.
  • B. Southern Province, Sri Lanka
    Southern Province, Sri Lanka is a coastal administrative region in the south of Sri Lanka known for its historic cities, beaches, and cultural heritage.
  • C. Northern Province, Sri Lanka
    Northern Province, Sri Lanka is the island nation’s northernmost province, centered on the Jaffna Peninsula and known for its Tamil cultural heritage and post-civil war reconstruction.
  • D. Central Province of Sri Lanka
    The Central Province of Sri Lanka is a mountainous inland region known for its historic cities like Kandy, tea plantations, and cultural significance as a heartland of Sinhalese heritage.
  • E. Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka
    Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka is a southwestern administrative region known for its lush rainforests, gem mining (especially in Ratnapura), and rich cultural heritage.
  • 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_69c00845ca68819081a2ce3ecca577f7 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02a959b108190a7408560e1b34cd2 completed March 22, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c098302d4c81908b56747d304b3e6a completed March 23, 2026, 1:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c098d889e08190adbd12504a7f3fa1 completed March 23, 2026, 1:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c09990da18819099fdc8f25f2ddef2 completed March 23, 2026, 1:38 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:51 p.m.