Triple

T11114691
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Christopher Ehret E262854 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800 E905171 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 Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800 | Statement: [Christopher Ehret, notableWork, The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800
Context triple: [Christopher Ehret, notableWork, The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800]
  • A. Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800 chosen
    Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800 is a scholarly book by historian Christopher Ehret that surveys the development and diversity of African societies and states from early times up to the end of the eighteenth century.
  • B. An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 BC to AD 400
    An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 BC to AD 400 is a scholarly historical study by Christopher Ehret that reconstructs the political, economic, and cultural developments of eastern and southern Africa in the first millennium BC through late antiquity, situating the region within broader world history.
  • C. The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History
    The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History is a scholarly work by historian Christopher Ehret that uses archaeological and comparative linguistic evidence to trace and reinterpret the deep precolonial history of African societies.
  • D. The Challenge of Africa
    The Challenge of Africa is a political and sociological study of post-colonial African development and governance written by Ghanaian scholar and statesman Kofi Abrefa Busia.
  • E. Africa and the Discovery of America
    Africa and the Discovery of America is a three-volume historical study by Leo Wiener arguing for significant African influence on the pre-Columbian Americas.
  • 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_69d6aa9b46cc8190b19f9f0cc45bf322 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d79aa637888190935e852281408356 completed April 9, 2026, 12:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e441cb16bc81908b5321506f655e38 completed April 19, 2026, 2:45 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:27 p.m.