Triple

T11796601
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject West Africans E280517 entity
Predicate influencedReligion P2322 FINISHED
Object Shango cult
The Shango cult is a traditional Yoruba-derived religious practice centered on the worship of the thunder and lightning deity Shango, featuring spirit possession, drumming, and ritual offerings.
 E57147 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: Shango cult | Statement: [West Africans, influencedReligion, Shango cult]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shango cult
Context triple: [West Africans, influencedReligion, Shango cult]
  • A. Santería
    Santería is a syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion that blends Yoruba spiritual traditions with elements of Roman Catholicism and indigenous beliefs, centered on the worship of orishas through rituals, divination, and offerings.
  • B. Haitian Vodou
    Haitian Vodou is a syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion from Haiti that blends West and Central African spiritual traditions with Roman Catholicism and indigenous beliefs, centered on the worship of spirits called lwa.
  • C. Cuban Vodú
    Cuban Vodú is an Afro-Caribbean religious tradition in Cuba that blends West African Vodun beliefs with elements of Catholicism and local spiritual practices.
  • D. Lucumí
    Lucumí is a liturgical Afro-Cuban language variety derived mainly from Yoruba, used in Santería/Regla de Ocha religious rituals.
  • E. Shango
    Shango is a major Yoruba orisha revered as the powerful god of thunder, lightning, and justice, often associated with kingship and drumming.
  • 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: Shango cult
Triple: [West Africans, influencedReligion, Shango cult]
Generated description
The Shango cult is a traditional Yoruba-derived religious practice centered on the worship of the thunder and lightning deity Shango, featuring spirit possession, drumming, and ritual offerings.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shango cult
Target entity description: The Shango cult is a traditional Yoruba-derived religious practice centered on the worship of the thunder and lightning deity Shango, featuring spirit possession, drumming, and ritual offerings.
  • A. Santería
    Santería is a syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion that blends Yoruba spiritual traditions with elements of Roman Catholicism and indigenous beliefs, centered on the worship of orishas through rituals, divination, and offerings.
  • B. Haitian Vodou
    Haitian Vodou is a syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion from Haiti that blends West and Central African spiritual traditions with Roman Catholicism and indigenous beliefs, centered on the worship of spirits called lwa.
  • C. Cuban Vodú
    Cuban Vodú is an Afro-Caribbean religious tradition in Cuba that blends West African Vodun beliefs with elements of Catholicism and local spiritual practices.
  • D. Lucumí
    Lucumí is a liturgical Afro-Cuban language variety derived mainly from Yoruba, used in Santería/Regla de Ocha religious rituals.
  • E. Shango chosen
    Shango is a major Yoruba orisha revered as the powerful god of thunder, lightning, and justice, often associated with kingship and drumming.
  • F. None of above.

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_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_69f131110aa081909aa0b0d532e473a5 completed April 28, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f14e879aa88190a95f13e23dd346f4 completed April 29, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f156fa5cc48190a43c1d2e5df346fe completed April 29, 2026, 12:55 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:42 p.m.