Triple

T3367798
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Volta River E70877 entity
Predicate locatedInDrainageBasin P18951 FINISHED
Object Volta River basin
The Volta River basin is a major West African drainage basin encompassing the catchment area of the Volta River and its tributaries across several countries, including Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Togo.
E356588 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: Volta River basin | Statement: [Volta River, locatedInDrainageBasin, Volta River basin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Volta River basin
Context triple: [Volta River, locatedInDrainageBasin, Volta River basin]
  • A. Volta River
    The Volta River is a major river system in West Africa that flows primarily through Ghana, where it feeds Lake Volta, one of the world’s largest artificial reservoirs.
  • B. Athi River basin
    The Athi River basin is a major drainage basin in Kenya that collects waters from rivers such as the Nairobi River and ultimately feeds into the Indian Ocean.
  • C. Oti River basin
    The Oti River basin is a major West African river catchment that drains parts of Togo, Ghana, Benin, and Burkina Faso before feeding into the Volta River system.
  • D. Rio Muni
    Rio Muni is the mainland region of Equatorial Guinea, located on the west coast of Central Africa and forming the country's largest and most populous territory.
  • E. Benue River
    The Benue River is a major West African waterway and the largest tributary of the Niger River, flowing through Cameroon and Nigeria and serving as an important route for transport, agriculture, and fishing.
  • 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: Volta River basin
Triple: [Volta River, locatedInDrainageBasin, Volta River basin]
Generated description
The Volta River basin is a major West African drainage basin encompassing the catchment area of the Volta River and its tributaries across several countries, including Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Togo.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Volta River basin
Target entity description: The Volta River basin is a major West African drainage basin encompassing the catchment area of the Volta River and its tributaries across several countries, including Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Togo.
  • A. Volta River
    The Volta River is a major river system in West Africa that flows primarily through Ghana, where it feeds Lake Volta, one of the world’s largest artificial reservoirs.
  • B. Athi River basin
    The Athi River basin is a major drainage basin in Kenya that collects waters from rivers such as the Nairobi River and ultimately feeds into the Indian Ocean.
  • C. Oti River basin
    The Oti River basin is a major West African river catchment that drains parts of Togo, Ghana, Benin, and Burkina Faso before feeding into the Volta River system.
  • D. Rio Muni
    Rio Muni is the mainland region of Equatorial Guinea, located on the west coast of Central Africa and forming the country's largest and most populous territory.
  • E. Benue River
    The Benue River is a major West African waterway and the largest tributary of the Niger River, flowing through Cameroon and Nigeria and serving as an important route for transport, agriculture, and fishing.
  • 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_69ad85a729d48190afd789cd8417f289 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb2890480819082fe2e3c2874cece completed March 8, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3545ea1b08190ad84b7e5f70b4d2e completed March 13, 2026, 12:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b355a7dc308190ba8ab0db251592a2 completed March 13, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3566da174819086160cd254e0a443 completed March 13, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:13 p.m.