Triple

T11494564
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject East New Britain Province E272500 entity
Predicate hasCulturalPractice P3114 FINISHED
Object Tolai shell money
Tolai shell money is a traditional form of currency made from shell discs used by the Tolai people of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea for social, ceremonial, and economic exchanges.
E929078 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: Tolai shell money | Statement: [East New Britain Province, hasCulturalPractice, Tolai shell money]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tolai shell money
Context triple: [East New Britain Province, hasCulturalPractice, Tolai shell money]
  • A. Pagoda (gold coin)
    The Pagoda was a high-value South Indian gold coin widely used in trade and taxation, especially under the Vijayanagara Empire and later regional powers.
  • B. Banliang coin
    The Banliang coin was an early standardized round bronze coin with a square hole that became the model for later Chinese cash coins.
  • C. Varaha (gold coin)
    Varaha was a high-value gold coin of the Vijayanagara Empire, renowned for its purity and widespread use in South Indian trade and temple donations.
  • D. Raha
    Raha is a coastal town and administrative center located on Muna Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
  • E. Raha
    Raha is a town in the Nagaon district of Assam, India, known as the birthplace of prominent Indian freedom fighter and politician Gopinath Bordoloi.
  • 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: Tolai shell money
Triple: [East New Britain Province, hasCulturalPractice, Tolai shell money]
Generated description
Tolai shell money is a traditional form of currency made from shell discs used by the Tolai people of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea for social, ceremonial, and economic exchanges.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tolai shell money
Target entity description: Tolai shell money is a traditional form of currency made from shell discs used by the Tolai people of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea for social, ceremonial, and economic exchanges.
  • A. Pagoda (gold coin)
    The Pagoda was a high-value South Indian gold coin widely used in trade and taxation, especially under the Vijayanagara Empire and later regional powers.
  • B. Banliang coin
    The Banliang coin was an early standardized round bronze coin with a square hole that became the model for later Chinese cash coins.
  • C. Varaha (gold coin)
    Varaha was a high-value gold coin of the Vijayanagara Empire, renowned for its purity and widespread use in South Indian trade and temple donations.
  • D. Raha
    Raha is a town in the Nagaon district of Assam, India, known as the birthplace of prominent Indian freedom fighter and politician Gopinath Bordoloi.
  • E. Raha
    Raha is a coastal town and administrative center located on Muna Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
  • 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_69d6aae1b09881909ce2ded3fa0c14fa completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d85ddffdf88190a00e94ad5b8b91a5 completed April 10, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e6048a05c88190968f7827c5dd5342 completed April 20, 2026, 10:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e610a6de0c8190aabda7ef7b7063a6 completed April 20, 2026, 11:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e61842b8848190b454cee480c69f7a completed April 20, 2026, 12:12 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:36 p.m.