Triple

T14797674
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colony of Dahomey E347821 entity
Predicate borderedBy P224 FINISHED
Object Colony of Upper Volta
The Colony of Upper Volta was a French colonial territory in West Africa that later became the independent nation of Burkina Faso.
 E1122581 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: Colony of Upper Volta | Statement: [Colony of Dahomey, borderedBy, Colony of Upper Volta]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Colony of Upper Volta
Context triple: [Colony of Dahomey, borderedBy, Colony of Upper Volta]
  • A. Colony of French Sudan
    The Colony of French Sudan was a former French colonial territory in West Africa that largely corresponds to present-day Mali.
  • B. Kingdom of Kouandé
    The Kingdom of Kouandé was a precolonial Bariba state located in what is now northern Benin, known for its regional political and cultural influence.
  • C. Colony of Dahomey
    The Colony of Dahomey was a French colonial territory in West Africa that later became the independent nation of Benin.
  • D. Toucouleur Empire
    The Toucouleur Empire was a 19th-century West African Islamic state founded by the reformer and conqueror El Hadj Umar Tall, encompassing large parts of present-day Mali, Senegal, and Guinea.
  • E. Kingdom of Dahomey
    The Kingdom of Dahomey was a powerful precolonial West African state known for its centralized monarchy, extensive involvement in the Atlantic slave trade, and elite corps of women warriors often called the Dahomey Amazons.
  • 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: Colony of Upper Volta
Triple: [Colony of Dahomey, borderedBy, Colony of Upper Volta]
Generated description
The Colony of Upper Volta was a French colonial territory in West Africa that later became the independent nation of Burkina Faso.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Colony of Upper Volta
Target entity description: The Colony of Upper Volta was a French colonial territory in West Africa that later became the independent nation of Burkina Faso.
  • A. Colony of French Sudan
    The Colony of French Sudan was a former French colonial territory in West Africa that largely corresponds to present-day Mali.
  • B. Kingdom of Kouandé
    The Kingdom of Kouandé was a precolonial Bariba state located in what is now northern Benin, known for its regional political and cultural influence.
  • C. Colony of Dahomey
    The Colony of Dahomey was a French colonial territory in West Africa that later became the independent nation of Benin.
  • D. Toucouleur Empire
    The Toucouleur Empire was a 19th-century West African Islamic state founded by the reformer and conqueror El Hadj Umar Tall, encompassing large parts of present-day Mali, Senegal, and Guinea.
  • E. Kingdom of Dahomey
    The Kingdom of Dahomey was a powerful precolonial West African state known for its centralized monarchy, extensive involvement in the Atlantic slave trade, and elite corps of women warriors often called the Dahomey Amazons.
  • 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_69d822ea8b7c819097dfadf3d45545e6 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69decd6131f08190885f1d27b4bfac7a completed April 14, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe389183a881908e6af44b71f81ace completed May 8, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe56cb6bb881909614b3667c0f2448 completed May 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe575e6cdc8190b1f22f8e8110e64d completed May 8, 2026, 9:36 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:31 a.m.