Triple
T13918536
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sultanates |
E334682
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableExample |
P1503
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Sultanate of Kilwa |
E68268
|
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: Sultanate of Kilwa | Statement: [Sultanates, notableExample, Sultanate of Kilwa]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sultanate of Kilwa Context triple: [Sultanates, notableExample, Sultanate of Kilwa]
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A.
Maravi Empire
The Maravi Empire was a powerful precolonial Central African state that flourished from about the 15th to 18th centuries in the region of present-day Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, serving as an important center of trade and culture for the Chewa and related peoples.
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B.
Wadai Sultanate
The Wadai Sultanate was a powerful pre-colonial Islamic kingdom in central Africa, centered in what is now eastern Chad, that dominated regional trade and politics from the early modern period until French conquest in the early 20th century.
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C.
Mutapa Kingdom
The Mutapa Kingdom was a powerful Shona state in south-central Africa, renowned for its control of regional gold trade and its political dominance following the decline of Great Zimbabwe.
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D.
Kilwa Kisiwani
chosen
Kilwa Kisiwani is a historic Swahili coastal city-state in present-day Tanzania that flourished as a powerful center of Indian Ocean trade between Africa, Arabia, and Asia from the medieval period onward.
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E.
Warsangali Sultanate
The Warsangali Sultanate was a prominent pre-colonial Somali sultanate in northeastern Somalia, known for its maritime trade, Islamic scholarship, and long-ruling dynastic leadership.
- 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_69d81c5f739081908bc05b2461f54828 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de272753e48190bc609482635280ff |
completed | April 14, 2026, 11:38 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f7ce7a1c388190a57dfdbbb732bbcb |
completed | May 3, 2026, 10:38 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:16 p.m.