Triple

T766692
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject French West Africa E16190 entity
Predicate capital P234 FINISHED
Object Saint-Louis
Saint-Louis is a historic coastal city in northwestern Senegal that served as a major colonial administrative and trading center in French West Africa.
 E94591 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: Saint-Louis | Statement: [French West Africa, capital, Saint-Louis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Saint-Louis
Context triple: [French West Africa, capital, Saint-Louis]
  • A. Saint-Louis
    Saint-Louis is a French border town in the Alsace region, adjacent to Basel and known as a key cross-border transit and commuter hub between France, Switzerland, and Germany.
  • B. Orléans
    Orléans is a federal electoral district in the eastern part of Ottawa, Ontario, represented in the House of Commons of Canada.
  • C. Orléans
    Orléans is a historic city in north-central France, renowned for its association with Joan of Arc and its location on the Loire River.
  • D. Orleans
    Orleans is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, fishing, and role as a popular summer vacation destination.
  • E. Lafayette
    Lafayette was a French aristocrat and military officer who became a key general in the American Revolutionary War and a symbol of Franco-American alliance.
  • 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: Saint-Louis
Triple: [French West Africa, capital, Saint-Louis]
Generated description
Saint-Louis is a historic coastal city in northwestern Senegal that served as a major colonial administrative and trading center in French West Africa.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Saint-Louis
Target entity description: Saint-Louis is a historic coastal city in northwestern Senegal that served as a major colonial administrative and trading center in French West Africa.
  • A. Saint-Louis
    Saint-Louis is a French border town in the Alsace region, adjacent to Basel and known as a key cross-border transit and commuter hub between France, Switzerland, and Germany.
  • B. Orléans
    Orléans is a federal electoral district in the eastern part of Ottawa, Ontario, represented in the House of Commons of Canada.
  • C. Orléans
    Orléans is a historic city in north-central France, renowned for its association with Joan of Arc and its location on the Loire River.
  • D. Orleans
    Orleans is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, fishing, and role as a popular summer vacation destination.
  • E. Lafayette
    Lafayette was a French aristocrat and military officer who became a key general in the American Revolutionary War and a symbol of Franco-American alliance.
  • 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_69a493684ee48190bd43b7c78da4aec8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a6a0fee08190bf365d14c007e008 completed March 1, 2026, 8:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a67efa8dd481909097c551bf3a61dc completed March 3, 2026, 6:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a67f6ed2b08190bd03d34e60498110 completed March 3, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a68257aab88190a7aefda939dc7f97 completed March 3, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.