Triple
T3259678
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Songhai Empire |
E68378
|
entity |
| Predicate | dynasty |
P1547
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Askia dynasty
The Askia dynasty was a ruling family that led the Songhai Empire to its greatest territorial expansion and cultural flourishing in West Africa during the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
|
E341695
|
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: Askia dynasty | Statement: [Songhai Empire, dynasty, Askia dynasty]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Askia dynasty Context triple: [Songhai Empire, dynasty, Askia dynasty]
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A.
Songhai Empire
The Songhai Empire was a powerful and wealthy medieval West African state centered along the Niger River, renowned for its control of trans-Saharan trade and cities like Gao and Timbuktu.
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B.
Sokoto Caliphate
The Sokoto Caliphate was a powerful 19th-century Islamic empire in West Africa that became a major center of Islamic learning, governance, and trade.
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C.
Laskarid dynasty
The Laskarid dynasty was a Byzantine Greek ruling family that governed the Empire of Nicaea in exile after the Fourth Crusade and helped preserve Byzantine statehood until the restoration of Constantinople.
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D.
Fulani Empire
The Fulani Empire was a powerful 19th-century West African Islamic state centered in what is now northern Nigeria, established through a jihad that reshaped the region’s political and religious landscape.
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E.
Habshi dynasty
The Habshi dynasty was a short-lived ruling house of Abyssinian origin that briefly controlled the Bengal Sultanate in the late 15th century.
- 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: Askia dynasty Triple: [Songhai Empire, dynasty, Askia dynasty]
Generated description
The Askia dynasty was a ruling family that led the Songhai Empire to its greatest territorial expansion and cultural flourishing in West Africa during the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Askia dynasty Target entity description: The Askia dynasty was a ruling family that led the Songhai Empire to its greatest territorial expansion and cultural flourishing in West Africa during the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
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A.
Songhai Empire
The Songhai Empire was a powerful and wealthy medieval West African state centered along the Niger River, renowned for its control of trans-Saharan trade and cities like Gao and Timbuktu.
-
B.
Sokoto Caliphate
The Sokoto Caliphate was a powerful 19th-century Islamic empire in West Africa that became a major center of Islamic learning, governance, and trade.
-
C.
Laskarid dynasty
The Laskarid dynasty was a Byzantine Greek ruling family that governed the Empire of Nicaea in exile after the Fourth Crusade and helped preserve Byzantine statehood until the restoration of Constantinople.
-
D.
Fulani Empire
The Fulani Empire was a powerful 19th-century West African Islamic state centered in what is now northern Nigeria, established through a jihad that reshaped the region’s political and religious landscape.
-
E.
Habshi dynasty
The Habshi dynasty was a short-lived ruling house of Abyssinian origin that briefly controlled the Bengal Sultanate in the late 15th century.
- 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_69ad858f74408190bcbd07f967cd7bd0 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adafa673a481909b5024b4e0e1c2a7 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:19 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b28ed941cc81909c35853e793d6ce5 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b2900805d08190afbda5ee5e984b71 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:06 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b2ac4c52d48190a87b1e535c2e8a37 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 12:06 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:09 p.m.