Triple
T18613359
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Northern Region of Nigeria |
E454954
|
entity |
| Predicate | containsTraditionalState |
P132787
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Zazzau Emirate |
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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: Zazzau Emirate | Statement: [Northern Region of Nigeria, containsTraditionalState, Zazzau Emirate]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zazzau Emirate Context triple: [Northern Region of Nigeria, containsTraditionalState, Zazzau Emirate]
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A.
Zazzau Emirate
chosen
Zazzau Emirate is a historic Hausa kingdom and traditional emirate centered on the city of Zaria, known for its role as a major political and commercial hub in precolonial northern Nigeria.
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B.
Sokoto Caliphate
The Sokoto Caliphate was a powerful 19th-century Islamic empire in West Africa that became a major center of Islamic learning, governance, and trade.
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C.
Kebbi Kingdom
Kebbi Kingdom was a historic Hausa state in what is now northwestern Nigeria, known for its role in regional trade and military power in the central Sudan region.
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D.
Katsina Kingdom
The Katsina Kingdom was a pre-colonial Hausa state in what is now northern Nigeria, known as an important center of trans-Saharan trade and Islamic scholarship.
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E.
Fulani Empire
The Fulani Empire was a powerful 19th-century West African Islamic state centered in what is now northern Nigeria, established through a jihad that reshaped the region’s political and religious landscape.
- 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_69d8d38bbe7c8190bdec3138e7d413c9 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e54d030d488190a992d10d3d28b4ad |
completed | April 19, 2026, 9:45 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:45 a.m.