Triple

T2662938
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lingala E54766 entity
Predicate majorUrbanCenters P12871 FINISHED
Object Mbandaka
Mbandaka is a city in the northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo, located on the Congo River and serving as a regional commercial and administrative center.
 E315024 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: Mbandaka | Statement: [Lingala, majorUrbanCenters, Mbandaka]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mbandaka
Context triple: [Lingala, majorUrbanCenters, Mbandaka]
  • A. Pointe-Noire
    Pointe-Noire is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of the Republic of the Congo and one of the country’s principal economic and industrial centers.
  • B. Luanda
    Luanda is the capital and largest city of Angola, a major Atlantic port and economic hub with a history shaped by Portuguese colonial rule and the transatlantic slave trade.
  • C. Kisangani
    Kisangani is a major city in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, known as a key inland port and commercial center in the central African rainforest region.
  • D. Kinshasa
    Kinshasa is the largest city and political, economic, and cultural center of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located along the Congo River in Central Africa.
  • E. Bamenda
    Bamenda is a prominent city in northwestern Cameroon known as a cultural and commercial hub of the Anglophone region.
  • 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: Mbandaka
Triple: [Lingala, majorUrbanCenters, Mbandaka]
Generated description
Mbandaka is a city in the northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo, located on the Congo River and serving as a regional commercial and administrative center.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mbandaka
Target entity description: Mbandaka is a city in the northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo, located on the Congo River and serving as a regional commercial and administrative center.
  • A. Pointe-Noire
    Pointe-Noire is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of the Republic of the Congo and one of the country’s principal economic and industrial centers.
  • B. Luanda
    Luanda is the capital and largest city of Angola, a major Atlantic port and economic hub with a history shaped by Portuguese colonial rule and the transatlantic slave trade.
  • C. Kisangani
    Kisangani is a major city in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, known as a key inland port and commercial center in the central African rainforest region.
  • D. Kinshasa
    Kinshasa is the largest city and political, economic, and cultural center of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located along the Congo River in Central Africa.
  • E. Bamenda
    Bamenda is a prominent city in northwestern Cameroon known as a cultural and commercial hub of the Anglophone region.
  • 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_69ab49e028948190b97e01d73548b1d9 completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdd1e80dc819083e04e1427d187d0 completed March 7, 2026, 8:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b0fc4137cc8190a67bf8be5d8e062c completed March 11, 2026, 5:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b0fcf23bbc819080d211844fb4f80f completed March 11, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b100ecbee081908832ddec0efdc751 completed March 11, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:53 p.m.