Triple

T9422162
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Africa Nova E227178 entity
Predicate sharesBorderWith P224 FINISHED
Object Africa Vetus
Africa Vetus was the Roman Republic’s original African province centered on Carthage, later distinguished from the adjacent territory known as Africa Nova.
E798460 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: Africa Vetus | Statement: [Africa Nova, sharesBorderWith, Africa Vetus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Africa Vetus
Context triple: [Africa Nova, sharesBorderWith, Africa Vetus]
  • A. Africa Nova
    Africa Nova was a Roman imperial province in North Africa established after the fall of the Numidian kingdom.
  • B. M. Afr.
    M. Afr. is the post-nominal abbreviation used by members of the Missionaries of Africa, a Roman Catholic missionary society commonly known as the White Fathers.
  • C. Horn of Africa
    The Horn of Africa is a peninsula in Northeast Africa that juts into the Arabian Sea and is known for countries such as Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti, serving as a strategic and cultural crossroads between Africa and the Arab world.
  • D. Nubia
    Nubia is a historic region along the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan, renowned for its ancient civilizations, archaeological sites, and monumental temples.
  • E. Northwest Africa
    Northwest Africa is a geographic region of the African continent that includes countries along its northwestern Atlantic coast, such as Mauritania, Morocco, Western Sahara, and parts of neighboring states.
  • 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: Africa Vetus
Triple: [Africa Nova, sharesBorderWith, Africa Vetus]
Generated description
Africa Vetus was the Roman Republic’s original African province centered on Carthage, later distinguished from the adjacent territory known as Africa Nova.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Africa Vetus
Target entity description: Africa Vetus was the Roman Republic’s original African province centered on Carthage, later distinguished from the adjacent territory known as Africa Nova.
  • A. Africa Nova
    Africa Nova was a Roman imperial province in North Africa established after the fall of the Numidian kingdom.
  • B. M. Afr.
    M. Afr. is the post-nominal abbreviation used by members of the Missionaries of Africa, a Roman Catholic missionary society commonly known as the White Fathers.
  • C. Horn of Africa
    The Horn of Africa is a peninsula in Northeast Africa that juts into the Arabian Sea and is known for countries such as Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti, serving as a strategic and cultural crossroads between Africa and the Arab world.
  • D. Nubia
    Nubia is a historic region along the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan, renowned for its ancient civilizations, archaeological sites, and monumental temples.
  • E. Northwest Africa
    Northwest Africa is a geographic region of the African continent that includes countries along its northwestern Atlantic coast, such as Mauritania, Morocco, Western Sahara, and parts of neighboring states.
  • 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_69ca8436ba308190903e470776d2d893 completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd6c2651c48190808281779fab49df completed April 1, 2026, 7:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d107d290148190855b8d50eb80c591 completed April 4, 2026, 12:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d108d87adc8190b602c115c09650d6 completed April 4, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d10995e3bc8190a8db18e4ed0fc261 completed April 4, 2026, 12:52 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:48 p.m.