Triple

T11830780
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fort San Sebastian E281383 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object West African gold trade E228779 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: West African gold trade | Statement: [Fort San Sebastian, partOf, West African gold trade]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: West African gold trade
Context triple: [Fort San Sebastian, partOf, West African gold trade]
  • A. Dahomey and the Slave Trade
    "Dahomey and the Slave Trade" is a historical study by Karl Polanyi examining the economic and social structures of the Kingdom of Dahomey in relation to the Atlantic slave trade.
  • B. Trans-Saharan trade routes chosen
    The Trans-Saharan trade routes were a network of caravan paths across the Sahara Desert that linked West and North Africa, facilitating the exchange of gold, salt, slaves, and other goods and fostering the rise of powerful African empires.
  • C. Portuguese Gold Coast
    The Portuguese Gold Coast was a former Portuguese colonial possession on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, centered on fortified trading posts that played a key role in early European involvement in the Atlantic slave and gold trades.
  • D. Dutch Gold Coast
    The Dutch Gold Coast was a former colonial territory of the Netherlands on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, centered on a network of coastal forts and trading posts involved in the Atlantic slave trade and commerce in gold and other goods.
  • E. Atlantic slave trade
    The Atlantic slave trade was a transoceanic system from the 16th to 19th centuries in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas and sold into chattel slavery, profoundly shaping the economic and social history of the Atlantic world.
  • 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_69d6ab276f8c8190b1966a0ef11349ac completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a62b75dc8190b27d24e46a262a11 completed April 10, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f16741d9a08190b6d6d5e59dfa41b8 completed April 29, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:43 p.m.