Triple

T1919023
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Old Nubian script E40082 entity
Predicate languageWritten P9828 FINISHED
Object Old Nubian
Old Nubian is an extinct Nubian language once spoken in medieval Nubia, known primarily from Christian religious and administrative texts.
 E217262 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: Old Nubian | Statement: [Old Nubian script, languageWritten, Old Nubian]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Old Nubian
Context triple: [Old Nubian script, languageWritten, Old Nubian]
  • A. Mahas Nubian
    Mahas Nubian is a variety of the Nobiin language traditionally spoken by Nubian communities along the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan.
  • B. Old Nubian script (historically)
    Old Nubian script is an ancient alphabetic writing system used in medieval Nubia to record the Old Nubian language, particularly in Christian religious and administrative texts.
  • C. Meroitic script
    The Meroitic script is an ancient writing system used in the Kingdom of Kush to record the now largely undeciphered Meroitic language of Nubia.
  • D. Ancient Egyptian
    Ancient Egyptian is the extinct language of ancient Egypt, known from hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic scripts and regarded as one of the earliest recorded written languages in human history.
  • E. Lower Nubia
    Lower Nubia is the southernmost region of ancient Egypt along the Nile, known for its strategic location, rich archaeological sites, and temples later threatened by the Aswan High Dam.
  • 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: Old Nubian
Triple: [Old Nubian script, languageWritten, Old Nubian]
Generated description
Old Nubian is an extinct Nubian language once spoken in medieval Nubia, known primarily from Christian religious and administrative texts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Old Nubian
Target entity description: Old Nubian is an extinct Nubian language once spoken in medieval Nubia, known primarily from Christian religious and administrative texts.
  • A. Mahas Nubian
    Mahas Nubian is a variety of the Nobiin language traditionally spoken by Nubian communities along the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan.
  • B. Old Nubian script (historically)
    Old Nubian script is an ancient alphabetic writing system used in medieval Nubia to record the Old Nubian language, particularly in Christian religious and administrative texts.
  • C. Meroitic script
    The Meroitic script is an ancient writing system used in the Kingdom of Kush to record the now largely undeciphered Meroitic language of Nubia.
  • D. Ancient Egyptian
    Ancient Egyptian is the extinct language of ancient Egypt, known from hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic scripts and regarded as one of the earliest recorded written languages in human history.
  • E. Lower Nubia
    Lower Nubia is the southernmost region of ancient Egypt along the Nile, known for its strategic location, rich archaeological sites, and temples later threatened by the Aswan High Dam.
  • 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_69a8864298748190a2f2fd34f7ef8d77 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb211eda88190865de7a0522a453d completed March 7, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adf3df3fdc819095cfdf508e8bdb22 completed March 8, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adf598ee5c819081549042859e076f completed March 8, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adf6a6cc18819092a4e6535ce1376c completed March 8, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:35 p.m.