Triple
T11796574
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | West Africans |
E280517
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasHistoricalEmpire |
P4200
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Ghana Empire |
E67506
|
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: Ghana Empire | Statement: [West Africans, hasHistoricalEmpire, Ghana Empire]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ghana Empire Context triple: [West Africans, hasHistoricalEmpire, Ghana Empire]
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A.
Ghana Empire
chosen
The Ghana Empire was a powerful and wealthy medieval West African kingdom known for its control of trans-Saharan gold and salt trade routes between the 6th and 13th centuries.
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B.
Mali Empire
The Mali Empire was a powerful medieval West African state renowned for its wealth, trans-Saharan trade networks, and centers of Islamic learning such as Timbuktu.
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C.
Dominion of Ghana
The Dominion of Ghana was the constitutional monarchy period of modern Ghana that briefly existed after independence from British colonial rule in 1957, before the country became a republic.
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D.
Suri Empire
The Suri Empire was a short-lived 16th-century North Indian dynasty founded by Sher Shah Suri, noted for its administrative reforms and infrastructural projects that strengthened overland trade and governance.
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E.
Bambara Empire
The Bambara Empire was a powerful 17th–19th century West African state centered in present-day Mali, known for its military expansion, vibrant trade, and rich Bambara cultural traditions.
- 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_69f280fe1b2881908c32b920cdaf04df |
completed | April 29, 2026, 10:06 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:42 p.m.