Triple
T831150
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Scramble for Africa |
E17967
|
entity |
| Predicate | involves |
P1256
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Ethiopian Empire |
E61656
|
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: Ethiopian Empire | Statement: [Scramble for Africa, involves, Ethiopian Empire]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ethiopian Empire Context triple: [Scramble for Africa, involves, Ethiopian Empire]
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A.
Ethiopian Empire
chosen
The Ethiopian Empire was a historic monarchy in the Horn of Africa, centered on Ethiopia and ruled by a succession of emperors until 1974.
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B.
Aksumite Empire
The Aksumite Empire was a powerful ancient African kingdom centered in what is now northern Ethiopia and Eritrea, renowned for its monumental stelae, early adoption of Christianity, and extensive Red Sea trade networks.
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C.
Ghana Empire
The Ghana Empire was a powerful and wealthy medieval West African kingdom known for its control of trans-Saharan gold and salt trade routes between the 6th and 13th centuries.
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D.
Songhai Empire
The Songhai Empire was a powerful and wealthy medieval West African state centered along the Niger River, renowned for its control of trans-Saharan trade and cities like Gao and Timbuktu.
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E.
Mali Empire
The Mali Empire was a powerful medieval West African state renowned for its wealth, trans-Saharan trade networks, and centers of Islamic learning such as Timbuktu.
- 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_69a4937c9c188190aaa216f6b466f452 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4abb4be948190ae757df85bdc40e4 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:12 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a7b84547508190b82c2012f4342529 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 4:42 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.