Triple
T23348682
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Duala (Cameroon) |
E591942
|
entity |
| Predicate | subfamily |
P4180
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Narrow Bantu |
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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: Narrow Bantu | Statement: [Duala (Cameroon), subfamily, Narrow Bantu]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Narrow Bantu Context triple: [Duala (Cameroon), subfamily, Narrow Bantu]
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A.
Narrow Bantu
chosen
Narrow Bantu refers to the core group of Bantu languages that share a closer common ancestry and more specific linguistic features within the broader Bantu family.
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B.
Southwest Bantu
Southwest Bantu is a subgroup of the Bantu language family comprising closely related languages spoken primarily in southwestern Africa.
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C.
Northwest Bantu
Northwest Bantu is a subgroup of Bantu languages spoken in parts of Central and West-Central Africa, encompassing languages such as Fang.
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D.
Proto-Narrow Bantu
Proto-Narrow Bantu is a reconstructed ancestral language hypothesized to underlie the Narrow Bantu branch of the Bantu language family spoken across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
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E.
Central Bantu
Central Bantu refers to a major subgroup of Bantu languages spoken primarily in central Africa, closely related linguistically and historically to the Southern Bantu languages.
- 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_69e25d20e3d08190bcede87673cafb25 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f199cb2a3c8190a5c0c8d8735256c7 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 5:40 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:19 p.m.