Triple

T7152182
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lilongwe E166716 entity
Predicate previousCapitalWas P30709 FINISHED
Object Zomba
Zomba is a historic city in southern Malawi that served as the country’s former capital and remains an important administrative and educational center.
E646487 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: Zomba | Statement: [Lilongwe, previousCapitalWas, Zomba]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zomba
Context triple: [Lilongwe, previousCapitalWas, Zomba]
  • A. Mbeya
    Mbeya is a major city in southwestern Tanzania, serving as a commercial and transport hub near the Zambian border.
  • B. Kigoma
    Kigoma is a port city in western Tanzania located on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika and serving as a key regional transport and trade hub.
  • C. Bosambo
    Bosambo is a prominent fictional African chief featured in Edgar Wallace’s "Sanders of the River" stories, known for his cunning, charisma, and complex relationship with colonial authority.
  • D. Massinga
    Massinga is a coastal town in southern Mozambique that serves as an important local center within Inhambane Province.
  • E. Matadi
    Matadi is a major port city in western Democratic Republic of the Congo, serving as the country’s principal seaport and a key gateway for trade between the Atlantic Ocean and the interior via the Congo River.
  • 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: Zomba
Triple: [Lilongwe, previousCapitalWas, Zomba]
Generated description
Zomba is a historic city in southern Malawi that served as the country’s former capital and remains an important administrative and educational center.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zomba
Target entity description: Zomba is a historic city in southern Malawi that served as the country’s former capital and remains an important administrative and educational center.
  • A. Mbeya
    Mbeya is a major city in southwestern Tanzania, serving as a commercial and transport hub near the Zambian border.
  • B. Kigoma
    Kigoma is a port city in western Tanzania located on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika and serving as a key regional transport and trade hub.
  • C. Bosambo
    Bosambo is a prominent fictional African chief featured in Edgar Wallace’s "Sanders of the River" stories, known for his cunning, charisma, and complex relationship with colonial authority.
  • D. Massinga
    Massinga is a coastal town in southern Mozambique that serves as an important local center within Inhambane Province.
  • E. Matadi
    Matadi is a major port city in western Democratic Republic of the Congo, serving as the country’s principal seaport and a key gateway for trade between the Atlantic Ocean and the interior via the Congo River.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: previousCapitalWas
Context triple: [Lilongwe, previousCapitalWas, Zomba]
  • A. formerCapitalOf
    Indicates that a place once served as the capital of another entity (such as a country or region) but no longer holds that status.
  • B. succeededAsCapitalBy chosen
    Indicates that one capital city has been replaced by another as the official capital of a political entity.
  • C. formerNameOfCapital
    Indicates that one entity was the previous official name of a capital city before it was renamed.
  • D. wasFirstCapitalOf
    Indicates that one place previously served as the earliest or original capital city of another political or administrative entity.
  • E. wasDeFactoCapitalOf
    Indicates that a place functioned in practice as the capital of a political entity, even if it was not officially designated as such.
  • 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_69c68886779c8190a8e3fbabffe68253 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e7f3e4a88190a3110f2368262528 completed March 27, 2026, 8:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7b8f42abc8190856210b8dea0a6de completed March 28, 2026, 11:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7b97893308190b349afb452d4e154 completed March 28, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7b9f805b88190866170fdd8ce07ff completed March 28, 2026, 11:22 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69c6e1caf4e48190b47bb398a3c1554d completed March 27, 2026, 8 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:46 p.m.