Triple

T1225325
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sierra Leone E26313 entity
Predicate ethnicGroup P194 FINISHED
Object Mende
The Mende are one of the largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone, known for their rich traditions, secret societies, and significant influence on the country’s culture and politics.
 E140677 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: Mende | Statement: [Sierra Leone, ethnicGroup, Mende]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mende
Context triple: [Sierra Leone, ethnicGroup, Mende]
  • A. Mende
    Mende is a small historic town in southern France that serves as the prefecture of the Lozère department in the Occitanie region.
  • B. Samnium
    Samnium was an ancient region of south-central Italy inhabited by the Samnites, an Oscan-speaking Italic people known for their wars with the Roman Republic.
  • C. Sorbs
    The Sorbs are a Slavic ethnic minority primarily living in eastern Germany, known for preserving their distinct Sorbian language and cultural traditions.
  • D. Arpitania
    Arpitania is a cultural and linguistic region in parts of France, Italy, and Switzerland where the Franco-Provençal (Arpitan) language and related traditions are historically rooted.
  • E. Niton
    Niton is a coastal village on the southern tip of the Isle of Wight in England, known for its scenic cliffs and rural character.
  • 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: Mende
Triple: [Sierra Leone, ethnicGroup, Mende]
Generated description
The Mende are one of the largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone, known for their rich traditions, secret societies, and significant influence on the country’s culture and politics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mende
Target entity description: The Mende are one of the largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone, known for their rich traditions, secret societies, and significant influence on the country’s culture and politics.
  • A. Mende
    Mende is a small historic town in southern France that serves as the prefecture of the Lozère department in the Occitanie region.
  • B. Samnium
    Samnium was an ancient region of south-central Italy inhabited by the Samnites, an Oscan-speaking Italic people known for their wars with the Roman Republic.
  • C. Sorbs
    The Sorbs are a Slavic ethnic minority primarily living in eastern Germany, known for preserving their distinct Sorbian language and cultural traditions.
  • D. Arpitania
    Arpitania is a cultural and linguistic region in parts of France, Italy, and Switzerland where the Franco-Provençal (Arpitan) language and related traditions are historically rooted.
  • E. Niton
    Niton is a coastal village on the southern tip of the Isle of Wight in England, known for its scenic cliffs and rural character.
  • 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_69a49484688c8190a1bf285eb396a8b6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4be382c4081909238c18b805352a7 completed March 1, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac8a0fcf508190be3668bd55f6f6d6 completed March 7, 2026, 8:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac8ab214c48190a60c6604a67f9cf2 completed March 7, 2026, 8:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac8b0db83c81909db3c501a435f1d1 completed March 7, 2026, 8:31 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.