Triple
T8300180
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sumerian language |
E194331
|
entity |
| Predicate | region |
P40
|
FINISHED |
| Object | southern Mesopotamia |
E249292
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: southern Mesopotamia | Statement: [Sumerian language, region, southern Mesopotamia]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: southern Mesopotamia Context triple: [Sumerian language, region, southern Mesopotamia]
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A.
Upper Mesopotamia
Upper Mesopotamia is a historical region in northern Mesopotamia, encompassing parts of modern-day Syria, Turkey, and Iraq, known as a cradle of early urban civilization and agriculture.
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B.
Lower Mesopotamia
chosen
Lower Mesopotamia is the southern part of the ancient Mesopotamian region, encompassing the fertile alluvial plains around the lower Tigris and Euphrates rivers where some of the earliest urban civilizations, such as Sumer, emerged.
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C.
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is an ancient historical region in the eastern Mediterranean, located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, often regarded as the cradle of civilization for its early development of writing, cities, and complex societies.
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D.
Middle Euphrates region
The Middle Euphrates region is a stretch of the Euphrates River valley in Syria and Iraq characterized by its fertile floodplains, ancient settlement history, and network of tributaries and irrigation systems.
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E.
Fertile Crescent
The Fertile Crescent is a historically rich, agriculturally productive region in the Middle East often regarded as one of the cradles of civilization, where early farming and some of the first complex societies emerged.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca82e50ebc81909aa7b260c76bd757 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb7e879c588190a6f95cf7795541ad |
completed | March 31, 2026, 7:57 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ce026bef88819097459cb96f7b44af |
completed | April 2, 2026, 5:45 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:53 p.m.