Triple

T11582629
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tumbuka E274665 entity
Predicate hasDialects P4251 FINISHED
Object Southern Tumbuka
Southern Tumbuka is a regional variety of the Tumbuka language spoken primarily in the southern parts of the Tumbuka-speaking area of Malawi and neighboring regions.
E936901 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: Southern Tumbuka | Statement: [Tumbuka, hasDialects, Southern Tumbuka]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Southern Tumbuka
Context triple: [Tumbuka, hasDialects, Southern Tumbuka]
  • A. Central Tumbuka
    Central Tumbuka is the principal variety of the Tumbuka language, widely spoken in northern Malawi and used as a standard form in education and media.
  • B. Tumbuka
    Tumbuka is a Bantu language spoken primarily in northern Malawi and parts of Zambia and Tanzania.
  • C. Tumbuka people
    The Tumbuka people are a Bantu ethnic group of south-central Africa, primarily living in northern Malawi and parts of Zambia and Tanzania, known for their rich oral traditions, farming livelihoods, and distinctive matrilineal social structures.
  • D. Northeast Bantu
    Northeast Bantu is a subgroup of Bantu languages spoken in parts of East Africa, encompassing several closely related languages including Kerewe.
  • E. Southwest Bantu
    Southwest Bantu is a subgroup of the Bantu language family comprising closely related languages spoken primarily in southwestern Africa.
  • 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: Southern Tumbuka
Triple: [Tumbuka, hasDialects, Southern Tumbuka]
Generated description
Southern Tumbuka is a regional variety of the Tumbuka language spoken primarily in the southern parts of the Tumbuka-speaking area of Malawi and neighboring regions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Southern Tumbuka
Target entity description: Southern Tumbuka is a regional variety of the Tumbuka language spoken primarily in the southern parts of the Tumbuka-speaking area of Malawi and neighboring regions.
  • A. Central Tumbuka
    Central Tumbuka is the principal variety of the Tumbuka language, widely spoken in northern Malawi and used as a standard form in education and media.
  • B. Tumbuka
    Tumbuka is a Bantu language spoken primarily in northern Malawi and parts of Zambia and Tanzania.
  • C. Tumbuka people
    The Tumbuka people are a Bantu ethnic group of south-central Africa, primarily living in northern Malawi and parts of Zambia and Tanzania, known for their rich oral traditions, farming livelihoods, and distinctive matrilineal social structures.
  • D. Northeast Bantu
    Northeast Bantu is a subgroup of Bantu languages spoken in parts of East Africa, encompassing several closely related languages including Kerewe.
  • E. Southwest Bantu
    Southwest Bantu is a subgroup of the Bantu language family comprising closely related languages spoken primarily in southwestern Africa.
  • 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_69d6aae6b14c81908dc5a74bad7591f9 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8904db5748190ae5f10ae86ccdf46 completed April 10, 2026, 5:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ee86cbd7988190a4960c5abbbf03a2 completed April 26, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ee9cf1cb2481908bc473c87bc42d60 completed April 26, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69eecd31894481908dbd55f605c693f9 completed April 27, 2026, 2:42 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:38 p.m.