Triple

T3261219
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sokoto State E68412 entity
Predicate historicalEntityPrecededBy P14662 FINISHED
Object Sokoto Caliphate E59895 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Sokoto Caliphate | Statement: [Sokoto State, historicalEntityPrecededBy, Sokoto Caliphate]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sokoto Caliphate
Context triple: [Sokoto State, historicalEntityPrecededBy, Sokoto Caliphate]
  • A. Sokoto Caliphate chosen
    The Sokoto Caliphate was a powerful 19th-century Islamic empire in West Africa that became a major center of Islamic learning, governance, and trade.
  • B. Zazzau Emirate
    Zazzau Emirate is a historic Hausa kingdom and traditional emirate centered on the city of Zaria, known for its role as a major political and commercial hub in precolonial northern Nigeria.
  • C. Kano Emirate (pre-jihad Hausa state)
    The Kano Emirate (pre-jihad Hausa state) was a powerful and long-standing Hausa kingdom centered on the city of Kano in what is now northern Nigeria, known for its thriving trans-Saharan trade, Islamic scholarship, and sophisticated urban culture before its incorporation into the Sokoto Caliphate.
  • 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. Daura Emirate
    Daura Emirate is a historic Hausa traditional state in northern Nigeria, regarded as one of the oldest Hausa kingdoms and an important center of pre-colonial political and cultural influence.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: historicalEntityPrecededBy
Context triple: [Sokoto State, historicalEntityPrecededBy, Sokoto Caliphate]
  • A. historicalEntityPredecessor chosen
    Indicates that one historical entity existed or held a role before another, serving as its predecessor in time or sequence.
  • B. founderOfPredecessor
    Indicates that an entity is the founder of another entity that served as a predecessor to a specified organization or institution.
  • C. countryPredecessor
    Indicates that one country existed before and was succeeded or replaced by another country in a historical or political sense.
  • D. chronologyPrecedes
    Indicates that one event or state occurs earlier in time than another in a chronological sequence.
  • E. hasHistoricalInfluenceFrom
    Indicates that one entity’s characteristics, development, or significance have been shaped or affected by the past actions, ideas, or legacy of another entity.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (4 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_69ad8590444081909e8107a8aeef3a23 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adafa7fea08190b089b6174fd7cd32 completed March 8, 2026, 5:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b31a698ab08190b558c4ff3f9b27fc completed March 12, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69ada41d7eac8190ada4bf5f793d5c49 completed March 8, 2026, 4:30 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:09 p.m.