Triple
T14927338
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Portuguese expansion in the Indian Ocean |
E372165
|
entity |
| Predicate | opposedBy |
P437
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Adal Sultanate |
E468913
|
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: Adal Sultanate | Statement: [Portuguese expansion in the Indian Ocean, opposedBy, Adal Sultanate]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Adal Sultanate Context triple: [Portuguese expansion in the Indian Ocean, opposedBy, Adal Sultanate]
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A.
Adal Sultanate
chosen
The Adal Sultanate was a medieval Muslim Somali-led kingdom in the Horn of Africa that played a major role in regional trade and warfare, particularly in conflicts with the Christian Ethiopian Empire.
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B.
Emirate of Harar
The Emirate of Harar was a historic Muslim city-state centered on the fortified city of Harar in the Horn of Africa, known for its role as a regional trade hub and center of Islamic scholarship before its incorporation into the Ethiopian Empire.
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C.
Sultanate of Ifat
The Sultanate of Ifat was a medieval Muslim kingdom in the Horn of Africa that played a key role in regional trade and early Islamic expansion in what is now eastern Ethiopia and Djibouti.
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D.
Sultanate of Sennar
The Sultanate of Sennar was a powerful Islamic kingdom in what is now Sudan, centered on the Blue Nile and dominant in the region from the early 16th to the 19th century.
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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.
- 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_69d85cc9da0c81908d583ca3f63a3908 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ded633da0c8190b39f606212e48e71 |
completed | April 15, 2026, 12:05 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fe72c4f9c481909642efccb29f71d4 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 11:33 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:35 a.m.