Triple

T14591228
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Songo Mnara E342446 entity
Predicate governingPowerDuringPeak P29191 FINISHED
Object Kilwa Sultanate
The Kilwa Sultanate was a powerful medieval Swahili trading state on the East African coast that dominated regional commerce in gold, ivory, and other goods across the Indian Ocean.
E68268 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Kilwa Sultanate | Statement: [Songo Mnara, governingPowerDuringPeak, Kilwa Sultanate]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kilwa Sultanate
Context triple: [Songo Mnara, governingPowerDuringPeak, Kilwa Sultanate]
  • A. Kilwa Kisiwani
    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.
  • B. Kilwa Masoko
    Kilwa Masoko is a coastal town in southeastern Tanzania known as a local hub for fishing, trade, and access to the historic Kilwa Kisiwani ruins.
  • 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Kilwa Sultanate
Triple: [Songo Mnara, governingPowerDuringPeak, Kilwa Sultanate]
Generated description
The Kilwa Sultanate was a powerful medieval Swahili trading state on the East African coast that dominated regional commerce in gold, ivory, and other goods across the Indian Ocean.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kilwa Sultanate
Target entity description: The Kilwa Sultanate was a powerful medieval Swahili trading state on the East African coast that dominated regional commerce in gold, ivory, and other goods across the Indian Ocean.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Kilwa Masoko
    Kilwa Masoko is a coastal town in southeastern Tanzania known as a local hub for fishing, trade, and access to the historic Kilwa Kisiwani ruins.
  • 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: governingPowerDuringPeak
Context triple: [Songo Mnara, governingPowerDuringPeak, Kilwa Sultanate]
  • A. governmentTypeDuringPeak
    Indicates the form of government that characterized an entity during its period of greatest prominence or influence.
  • B. inPowerDuring
    Indicates that an entity holds a position of authority or governance throughout a specified time period.
  • C. operationalPeak
    Indicates the highest level or period of performance, capacity, or activity that a system, process, or entity reaches during its operation.
  • D. heldTemporalPower chosen
    Indicates that an entity exercised governing or authoritative control over another entity or domain during a specific period of time.
  • E. leaderDuringPeak
    Indicates that an entity served as the primary leader of another entity during the latter’s peak or most successful period.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69d822ddc0f081909cd8163c7de298cd completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb4249af08190962009741d1f7d41 completed April 14, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fea59f26188190b81af88940a9c95b completed May 9, 2026, 3:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fea70a10b88190aac09e3b690afa6f completed May 9, 2026, 3:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fea82a80888190bbb0de39a8959a6e completed May 9, 2026, 3:21 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69de656a953481909a4645b004c40de7 completed April 14, 2026, 4:03 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:24 a.m.