Triple
T17984016
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Kanembu people |
E430178
|
entity |
| Predicate | historicalState |
P4711
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Kanem-Bornu Empire |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
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: Kanem-Bornu Empire | Statement: [Kanembu people, historicalState, Kanem-Bornu Empire]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kanem-Bornu Empire Context triple: [Kanembu people, historicalState, Kanem-Bornu Empire]
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A.
Kanem Empire
chosen
The Kanem Empire was a powerful medieval African kingdom centered around Lake Chad that flourished as a hub of trans-Saharan trade and Islamic scholarship from roughly the 9th to the 14th century.
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B.
Bambara Empire
The Bambara Empire was a powerful 17th–19th century West African state centered in present-day Mali, known for its military expansion, vibrant trade, and rich Bambara cultural traditions.
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C.
Kaabu Empire
The Kaabu Empire was a powerful Mandinka-dominated West African state that flourished from the 13th to the 19th century in the Senegambia region, known for its military strength and role in regional trade and culture.
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D.
Massina Empire
The Massina Empire was a 19th-century Islamic theocratic state in the Inner Niger Delta region of present-day Mali, known for its Fulani leadership, reformist Islam, and control of key trading cities.
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E.
Songhai Empire
The Songhai Empire was a powerful and wealthy medieval West African state centered along the Niger River, renowned for its control of trans-Saharan trade and cities like Gao and Timbuktu.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b90364248190a37381adea932f42 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:46 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e4b2992fe481908c0d2757b4de5bad |
completed | April 19, 2026, 10:46 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:23 a.m.