Triple
T10156929
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | St. John Philby |
E233797
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | The Empty Quarter |
E42398
|
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: The Empty Quarter | Statement: [St. John Philby, notableWork, The Empty Quarter]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Empty Quarter Context triple: [St. John Philby, notableWork, The Empty Quarter]
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A.
Rub al Khali
chosen
Rub al Khali, also known as the Empty Quarter, is one of the world’s largest continuous sand deserts, covering much of the southern Arabian Peninsula with vast dunes and extreme arid conditions.
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B.
Murzuq Desert
The Murzuq Desert is a vast, remote sand desert in southwestern Libya, known for its towering dunes, extreme aridity, and sparse human habitation.
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C.
Ad Dahna Desert
Ad Dahna Desert is a long, narrow corridor of reddish sand dunes in central Saudi Arabia that links the Nafud Desert in the north with the Rub' al Khali in the south.
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D.
Bayuda Desert
The Bayuda Desert is an arid, sparsely populated desert region in northern Sudan, bounded by a great bend of the Nile and known for its harsh terrain and historical caravan and military routes.
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E.
Nefud Desert
The Nefud Desert is a vast, crescent-shaped sand desert in northern Saudi Arabia known for its towering dunes and harsh, arid climate.
- 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_69ca848e80748190b91d1e04d35512c7 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cdec3c47dc81909679903e6024eb49 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 4:10 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d354fc0a808190aa57b68708d91590 |
completed | April 6, 2026, 6:38 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:09 p.m.