Triple

T21946721
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A History of the Colonization of the Western Coast of Africa E541951 entity
Predicate setting P1957 FINISHED
Object West Africa 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: West Africa | Statement: [A History of the Colonization of the Western Coast of Africa, setting, West Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: West Africa
Context triple: [A History of the Colonization of the Western Coast of Africa, setting, West Africa]
  • A. West Africa chosen
    West Africa is a region on the western coast of the African continent, historically significant for its role in trans-Saharan and Atlantic trade, diverse cultures and languages, and complex precolonial and colonial histories.
  • B. Western and Central African Region
    The Western and Central African Region is an ICAO-defined aviation area encompassing multiple countries in West and Central Africa for the coordination and regulation of international civil air navigation and safety.
  • C. Sub-Saharan Africa
    Sub-Saharan Africa is the geographically expansive and culturally diverse region of Africa located south of the Sahara Desert, encompassing dozens of countries with rapidly growing populations and economies.
  • D. Central Africa
    Central Africa is a subregion of the African continent that encompasses several landlocked and coastal countries characterized by vast rainforests, the Congo River basin, and significant cultural and linguistic diversity.
  • E. North-Central Africa
    North-Central Africa is a broad region of the African continent that spans parts of the Sahara and surrounding areas, encompassing diverse landscapes, climates, and cultures.
  • 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_69e0c47ef0e48190a50e1bcc43f4b3fd completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f12428dee48190acb63051ed7cd03e completed April 28, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:57 p.m.