Triple

T2637106
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Victoria Nile E59770 entity
Predicate discoveredByEuropeans P412 FINISHED
Object John Hanning Speke
John Hanning Speke was a 19th-century British explorer best known for his expeditions in East Africa and for identifying Lake Victoria as the principal source of the Nile.
E283664 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: John Hanning Speke | Statement: [Victoria Nile, discoveredByEuropeans, John Hanning Speke]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Hanning Speke
Context triple: [Victoria Nile, discoveredByEuropeans, John Hanning Speke]
  • A. David Livingstone
    David Livingstone was a 19th-century Scottish missionary and explorer renowned for his extensive travels in Africa and his influential role in mapping and documenting the continent for Europeans.
  • B. Henry Morton Stanley
    Henry Morton Stanley was a 19th-century Welsh-American explorer and journalist best known for his expeditions in central Africa and his famous encounter with missionary David Livingstone.
  • C. Anne Speke
    Anne Speke was an 18th-century British aristocrat best known as the wife of Prime Minister Lord North and a member of the influential Speke family.
  • D. Percy Fawcett
    Percy Fawcett was a British explorer and archaeologist famed for his expeditions into the Amazon rainforest and his mysterious disappearance while searching for a lost ancient city.
  • E. James Nares
    James Nares was an 18th-century English composer and organist best known for his church music and service as a prominent royal chapel musician.
  • 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: John Hanning Speke
Triple: [Victoria Nile, discoveredByEuropeans, John Hanning Speke]
Generated description
John Hanning Speke was a 19th-century British explorer best known for his expeditions in East Africa and for identifying Lake Victoria as the principal source of the Nile.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Hanning Speke
Target entity description: John Hanning Speke was a 19th-century British explorer best known for his expeditions in East Africa and for identifying Lake Victoria as the principal source of the Nile.
  • A. David Livingstone
    David Livingstone was a 19th-century Scottish missionary and explorer renowned for his extensive travels in Africa and his influential role in mapping and documenting the continent for Europeans.
  • B. Henry Morton Stanley
    Henry Morton Stanley was a 19th-century Welsh-American explorer and journalist best known for his expeditions in central Africa and his famous encounter with missionary David Livingstone.
  • C. Anne Speke
    Anne Speke was an 18th-century British aristocrat best known as the wife of Prime Minister Lord North and a member of the influential Speke family.
  • D. Percy Fawcett
    Percy Fawcett was a British explorer and archaeologist famed for his expeditions into the Amazon rainforest and his mysterious disappearance while searching for a lost ancient city.
  • E. James Nares
    James Nares was an 18th-century English composer and organist best known for his church music and service as a prominent royal chapel musician.
  • 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_69ab4ac8596c8190b34997e73d9e991c completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd8e3190081908ea828fe79569cc9 completed March 7, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af90b3e9b48190857ae21022a4fb15 completed March 10, 2026, 3:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af922043508190a9a9ceced2425109 completed March 10, 2026, 3:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af927bb1d0819081ab11eb4470e28d completed March 10, 2026, 3:39 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.