Triple

T7046286
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pedi people E163640 entity
Predicate historicalState P4711 FINISHED
Object Marota Empire
The Marota Empire was a precolonial African state established by the Pedi people in what is now northeastern South Africa.
E639055 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: Marota Empire | Statement: [Pedi people, historicalState, Marota Empire]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marota Empire
Context triple: [Pedi people, historicalState, Marota Empire]
  • A. Molossian Kingdom
    The Molossian Kingdom was an ancient Greek monarchy in Epirus ruled by the Molossian tribe, known for producing the famed king Pyrrhus of Epirus.
  • B. Rozvi Empire
    The Rozvi Empire was a powerful Shona state in south-central Africa, centered in present-day Zimbabwe, known for its military strength, stone architecture, and control of regional trade from the late 17th to 19th centuries.
  • C. Shunga Empire
    The Shunga Empire was an ancient Indian dynasty that succeeded the Maurya Empire and ruled much of northern and central India in the 2nd–1st centuries BCE.
  • D. Palmyrene Empire
    The Palmyrene Empire was a short-lived breakaway state centered on the city of Palmyra in Syria that, under Queen Zenobia in the 3rd century CE, controlled much of the Roman East before being reconquered by Rome.
  • E. Kingdom of Nobatia
    The Kingdom of Nobatia was an early medieval Nubian Christian kingdom in Lower Nubia, centered around sites such as Ballana, that flourished between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
  • 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: Marota Empire
Triple: [Pedi people, historicalState, Marota Empire]
Generated description
The Marota Empire was a precolonial African state established by the Pedi people in what is now northeastern South Africa.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marota Empire
Target entity description: The Marota Empire was a precolonial African state established by the Pedi people in what is now northeastern South Africa.
  • A. Molossian Kingdom
    The Molossian Kingdom was an ancient Greek monarchy in Epirus ruled by the Molossian tribe, known for producing the famed king Pyrrhus of Epirus.
  • B. Rozvi Empire
    The Rozvi Empire was a powerful Shona state in south-central Africa, centered in present-day Zimbabwe, known for its military strength, stone architecture, and control of regional trade from the late 17th to 19th centuries.
  • C. Shunga Empire
    The Shunga Empire was an ancient Indian dynasty that succeeded the Maurya Empire and ruled much of northern and central India in the 2nd–1st centuries BCE.
  • D. Palmyrene Empire
    The Palmyrene Empire was a short-lived breakaway state centered on the city of Palmyra in Syria that, under Queen Zenobia in the 3rd century CE, controlled much of the Roman East before being reconquered by Rome.
  • E. Kingdom of Nobatia
    The Kingdom of Nobatia was an early medieval Nubian Christian kingdom in Lower Nubia, centered around sites such as Ballana, that flourished between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
  • 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_69c6885f598c8190b6b6495c59d8d962 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e23a72f481909ce77ef73b06ea95 completed March 27, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7887e6e50819088c23c9b45861a54 completed March 28, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c78a822ab0819097e2b40d4b9e044f completed March 28, 2026, 8 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c78b33f5308190a3f234a2c0bd8b9c completed March 28, 2026, 8:03 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:37 p.m.