Triple
T22524321
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Central Highlands of Madagascar |
E556859
|
entity |
| Predicate | isCulturalHeartlandOf |
P1968
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Merina people |
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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: Merina people | Statement: [Central Highlands of Madagascar, isCulturalHeartlandOf, Merina people]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merina people Context triple: [Central Highlands of Madagascar, isCulturalHeartlandOf, Merina people]
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A.
Merina people
chosen
The Merina people are the largest and historically dominant ethnic group of Madagascar, centered in the central highlands and known for establishing the precolonial Merina Kingdom.
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B.
Sakalava people
The Sakalava people are a prominent ethnic group of western Madagascar known for their historical kingdoms, coastal trading heritage, and distinct cultural traditions within the broader Malagasy population.
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C.
Betsimisaraka people
The Betsimisaraka people are one of the largest ethnic groups of Madagascar, traditionally inhabiting the island’s eastern coast and known for their maritime culture and mixed African-Asian heritage.
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D.
Antanosy people
The Antanosy people are an ethnic group from southeastern Madagascar, traditionally known for rice cultivation, fishing, and a distinct Malagasy dialect and cultural practices.
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E.
Mahafaly people
The Mahafaly people are an ethnic group from southwestern Madagascar known for their distinctive funerary art, including elaborately carved wooden tomb posts called aloalo.
- 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_69e11e5657e881909f16ca58352c50da |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f15e34590c81909e4ed1c95f13a199 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 1:26 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:51 p.m.