Triple

T9713624
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Volga trade route E235080 entity
Predicate documentedBy P4310 FINISHED
Object Ibn Fadlan
Ibn Fadlan was a 10th-century Arab traveler and diplomat of the Abbasid Caliphate, best known for his detailed account of the peoples of the Volga region, including the Volga Bulgars and the Rus'.
E817010 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: Ibn Fadlan | Statement: [Volga trade route, documentedBy, Ibn Fadlan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ibn Fadlan
Context triple: [Volga trade route, documentedBy, Ibn Fadlan]
  • A. William of Rubruck
    William of Rubruck was a 13th-century Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer best known for his detailed account of his journey to the Mongol Empire and the court of Möngke Khan.
  • B. Ibn Battuta
    Ibn Battuta was a 14th-century Moroccan explorer and travel writer renowned for his extensive journeys across Africa, the Middle East, Central and South Asia, and China, which he documented in a famous travelogue.
  • C. Al-Bakri
    Al-Bakri was an 11th-century Andalusian Arab geographer and historian whose writings provide one of the most important early descriptions of West African states such as the Ghana Empire.
  • D. Ibn Jubayr
    Ibn Jubayr was a 12th-century Andalusian Muslim traveler and writer best known for his detailed pilgrimage travelogue that offers a vivid account of the medieval Islamic world.
  • E. Al-Masudi
    Al-Masudi was a 10th-century Arab historian and geographer, often called the "Herodotus of the Arabs" for his extensive historical and geographical writings.
  • 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: Ibn Fadlan
Triple: [Volga trade route, documentedBy, Ibn Fadlan]
Generated description
Ibn Fadlan was a 10th-century Arab traveler and diplomat of the Abbasid Caliphate, best known for his detailed account of the peoples of the Volga region, including the Volga Bulgars and the Rus'.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ibn Fadlan
Target entity description: Ibn Fadlan was a 10th-century Arab traveler and diplomat of the Abbasid Caliphate, best known for his detailed account of the peoples of the Volga region, including the Volga Bulgars and the Rus'.
  • A. William of Rubruck
    William of Rubruck was a 13th-century Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer best known for his detailed account of his journey to the Mongol Empire and the court of Möngke Khan.
  • B. Ibn Battuta
    Ibn Battuta was a 14th-century Moroccan explorer and travel writer renowned for his extensive journeys across Africa, the Middle East, Central and South Asia, and China, which he documented in a famous travelogue.
  • C. Al-Bakri
    Al-Bakri was an 11th-century Andalusian Arab geographer and historian whose writings provide one of the most important early descriptions of West African states such as the Ghana Empire.
  • D. Ibn Jubayr
    Ibn Jubayr was a 12th-century Andalusian Muslim traveler and writer best known for his detailed pilgrimage travelogue that offers a vivid account of the medieval Islamic world.
  • E. Al-Masudi
    Al-Masudi was a 10th-century Arab historian and geographer, often called the "Herodotus of the Arabs" for his extensive historical and geographical writings.
  • 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_69ca84cd8fa0819090a5e243ceb37003 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9e087a1c8190aa62c910f88e8516 completed April 1, 2026, 10:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d19f900ca08190a52f042feab2afa3 completed April 4, 2026, 11:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1a181f10081908bfb0fae5a08462f completed April 4, 2026, 11:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1a228b8488190a5a61f3468e92649 completed April 4, 2026, 11:43 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:19 p.m.