Triple
T11796517
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | West Africans |
E280517
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasSubgroup |
P747
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Songhai people |
E71792
|
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: Songhai people | Statement: [West Africans, hasSubgroup, Songhai people]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Songhai people Context triple: [West Africans, hasSubgroup, Songhai people]
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A.
Songhai people
chosen
The Songhai people are a major West African ethnic group historically centered along the Niger River, renowned for founding the powerful Songhai Empire with its capitals at Gao and Timbuktu.
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B.
Yali people
The Yali people are an indigenous Papuan ethnic group of the central highlands of Indonesian New Guinea, known for their traditional stone-age farming practices, distinctive dress, and remote mountain settlements.
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C.
Maravi people
The Maravi people were a historical Bantu-speaking group in southeastern Africa whose kingdom gave rise to and is ancestrally linked with the modern Chewa people.
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D.
Ngoni people
The Ngoni people are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group in southeastern Africa, historically known for their migration and military traditions influenced by the Zulu.
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E.
Mossi people
The Mossi people are a major ethnic group of West Africa, primarily in Burkina Faso, known for their centralized kingdoms, rich cultural traditions, and significant influence on the region’s history and politics.
- 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_69d6ab258b808190b1735835c841e3a4 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d8a5a1cda0819092d66a82fd882786 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 7:24 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fcb63c80048190be87b41cdd4ac775 |
completed | May 7, 2026, 3:56 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:42 p.m.