Triple

T8094233
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject eastern Atlantic Ocean E188941 entity
Predicate traversedBy P225 FINISHED
Object Europe–West Africa trade routes
The Europe–West Africa trade routes are major maritime shipping corridors linking European ports with West African coastal nations for the exchange of goods, resources, and commodities across the eastern Atlantic.
E350352 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: Europe–West Africa trade routes | Statement: [eastern Atlantic Ocean, traversedBy, Europe–West Africa trade routes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Europe–West Africa trade routes
Context triple: [eastern Atlantic Ocean, traversedBy, Europe–West Africa trade routes]
  • A. Trans-Saharan trade routes
    The Trans-Saharan trade routes were a network of caravan paths across the Sahara Desert that linked West and North Africa, facilitating the exchange of gold, salt, slaves, and other goods and fostering the rise of powerful African empires.
  • B. Europe–Africa transport network
    The Europe–Africa transport network is a system of interconnected ports, shipping routes, and logistics corridors that facilitate trade and passenger movement between the European and African continents.
  • C. Mediterranean trade routes
    Mediterranean trade routes were a network of maritime and coastal pathways that connected Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, facilitating extensive commercial, cultural, and disease transmission across the Mediterranean Sea.
  • D. Timbuktu
    Timbuktu is an ancient city in Mali famed as a historic center of trans-Saharan trade and Islamic scholarship.
  • E. Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa
    The Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa was a 17th-century English chartered company that held a royal monopoly over trade with West Africa, including a major role in the early transatlantic slave trade.
  • 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: Europe–West Africa trade routes
Triple: [eastern Atlantic Ocean, traversedBy, Europe–West Africa trade routes]
Generated description
The Europe–West Africa trade routes are major maritime shipping corridors linking European ports with West African coastal nations for the exchange of goods, resources, and commodities across the eastern Atlantic.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Europe–West Africa trade routes
Target entity description: The Europe–West Africa trade routes are major maritime shipping corridors linking European ports with West African coastal nations for the exchange of goods, resources, and commodities across the eastern Atlantic.
  • A. Trans-Saharan trade routes
    The Trans-Saharan trade routes were a network of caravan paths across the Sahara Desert that linked West and North Africa, facilitating the exchange of gold, salt, slaves, and other goods and fostering the rise of powerful African empires.
  • B. Europe–Africa transport network chosen
    The Europe–Africa transport network is a system of interconnected ports, shipping routes, and logistics corridors that facilitate trade and passenger movement between the European and African continents.
  • C. Mediterranean trade routes
    Mediterranean trade routes were a network of maritime and coastal pathways that connected Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, facilitating extensive commercial, cultural, and disease transmission across the Mediterranean Sea.
  • D. Timbuktu
    Timbuktu is an ancient city in Mali famed as a historic center of trans-Saharan trade and Islamic scholarship.
  • E. Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa
    The Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa was a 17th-century English chartered company that held a royal monopoly over trade with West Africa, including a major role in the early transatlantic slave trade.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ca82b7b3e88190b9041ab0ef28b3cb completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb429089cc81909e4625f9cc7e305f completed March 31, 2026, 3:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc64112138819096050975d707d8ee completed April 1, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc68647cec81909736383fbe73d2e8 completed April 1, 2026, 12:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc69b93bbc8190be2338182dd57b17 completed April 1, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:30 p.m.