Triple

T701604
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak E14009 entity
Predicate indexCaseLocation P8094 FINISHED
Object Meliandou, Guinea
Meliandou, Guinea is a small village in southeastern Guinea widely recognized as the origin point of the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak.
E85060 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Meliandou, Guinea | Statement: [2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak, indexCaseLocation, Meliandou, Guinea]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Meliandou, Guinea
Context triple: [2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak, indexCaseLocation, Meliandou, Guinea]
  • A. Tadjoura
    Tadjoura is a historic coastal town in Djibouti on the Gulf of Tadjoura, known as one of the country’s oldest settlements and a traditional trading hub.
  • B. Guinea
    Guinea is a West African country on the Atlantic coast known for its rich mineral resources, diverse ethnic groups, and role as a major producer of bauxite.
  • C. Mali
    Mali is a landlocked West African country known for its historic trading cities like Timbuktu, rich Sahelian culture, and significant role in the ancient Mali Empire.
  • D. Saint-Louis, Senegal
    Saint-Louis, Senegal is a historic coastal city and former colonial capital of French West Africa, known for its distinctive island setting, colonial architecture, and cultural significance at the mouth of the Senegal River.
  • E. Negombo
    Negombo is a coastal city in western Sri Lanka known historically as a strategic colonial port and today for its fishing industry and beach tourism.
  • 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: Meliandou, Guinea
Triple: [2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak, indexCaseLocation, Meliandou, Guinea]
Generated description
Meliandou, Guinea is a small village in southeastern Guinea widely recognized as the origin point of the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Meliandou, Guinea
Target entity description: Meliandou, Guinea is a small village in southeastern Guinea widely recognized as the origin point of the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak.
  • A. Tadjoura
    Tadjoura is a historic coastal town in Djibouti on the Gulf of Tadjoura, known as one of the country’s oldest settlements and a traditional trading hub.
  • B. Guinea
    Guinea is a West African country on the Atlantic coast known for its rich mineral resources, diverse ethnic groups, and role as a major producer of bauxite.
  • C. Mali
    Mali is a landlocked West African country known for its historic trading cities like Timbuktu, rich Sahelian culture, and significant role in the ancient Mali Empire.
  • D. Saint-Louis, Senegal
    Saint-Louis, Senegal is a historic coastal city and former colonial capital of French West Africa, known for its distinctive island setting, colonial architecture, and cultural significance at the mouth of the Senegal River.
  • E. Negombo
    Negombo is a coastal city in western Sri Lanka known historically as a strategic colonial port and today for its fishing industry and beach tourism.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: indexCaseLocation
Context triple: [2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak, indexCaseLocation, Meliandou, Guinea]
  • A. apseLocation
    Indicates the specific place or position where an apse is situated within a larger structure or context.
  • B. firstLocation chosen
    Indicates the initial or primary place where an entity is situated, originates, or where an event or relationship begins.
  • C. deltaLocation
    Indicates a change or difference between two locations, typically specifying how one location has shifted relative to another.
  • D. refersToLocation
    Indicates that one entity designates, points to, or identifies a specific location associated with it.
  • E. ianaLocation
    Indicates that an entity is associated with a specific geographic or network location identified using an IANA-defined naming or coding scheme.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69a493494ec48190ae6751683625a9ba completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a544e3608190ac315c7aa9f88e7e completed March 1, 2026, 8:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5dcae2ef88190a9ea1604429f048a completed March 2, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5df14e1788190bb2f2cc87cadcb40 completed March 2, 2026, 7:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5ff5dd4808190bb8ae25fbdca0075 completed March 2, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a4a4ec8c748190b198492a0eea4445 completed March 1, 2026, 8:43 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.