Triple

T2199825
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Livingstone E50461 entity
Predicate participantIn P149 FINISHED
Object Zambezi expedition E241472 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: Zambezi expedition | Statement: [David Livingstone, participantIn, Zambezi expedition]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Zambezi expedition
Context triple: [David Livingstone, participantIn, Zambezi expedition]
  • A. Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries chosen
    "Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries" is a 19th-century travel and exploration account by David Livingstone detailing his journeys, observations, and missionary work in the Zambezi River region of southern Africa.
  • B. Drake–Norris Expedition
    The Drake–Norris Expedition was a large but ultimately unsuccessful 1589 English naval campaign against Spain, launched shortly after the Spanish Armada in an attempt to cripple Spanish power and support Portuguese rebels.
  • C. Gordon Relief Expedition
    The Gordon Relief Expedition was a British military mission in 1884–1885 sent up the Nile to attempt to rescue General Charles Gordon and relieve the besieged city of Khartoum during the Mahdist War in Sudan.
  • D. Ralph Plaisted expedition
    The Ralph Plaisted expedition was a 1968 snowmobile journey that became widely recognized as the first confirmed over-ice surface expedition to reach the geographic North Pole.
  • E. Transvaal Trek
    Transvaal Trek was a segment of the 19th-century Great Trek in which Boer settlers migrated into the Transvaal region to escape British colonial rule and establish independent republics.
  • 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_69a88b044ab48190add007487680f009 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbf9e99f08190892d34485c8f2f25 completed March 7, 2026, 6:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6544c000819095aa63be5b1ed4d6 completed March 9, 2026, 6:14 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:46 p.m.