Triple

T342714
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject East African Community E6870 entity
Predicate hasCustomsUnion P12067 FINISHED
Object East African Community Customs Union
The East African Community Customs Union is a regional trade bloc arrangement that establishes a common external tariff and free trade area among East African Community member states to facilitate economic integration and cross-border commerce.
E19027 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: East African Community Customs Union | Statement: [East African Community, hasCustomsUnion, East African Community Customs Union]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: East African Community Customs Union
Context triple: [East African Community, hasCustomsUnion, East African Community Customs Union]
  • A. East African Community
    The East African Community is a regional intergovernmental organization of several East African countries that promotes economic integration, political cooperation, and social development across the region.
  • B. Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
    The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is a regional economic bloc of African states focused on promoting trade integration, economic cooperation, and development across Eastern and Southern Africa.
  • C. Southern African Development Community
    The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is a regional intergovernmental organization that promotes economic integration, political cooperation, and development among countries in Southern Africa.
  • D. African Continental Free Trade Area
    The African Continental Free Trade Area is a pan-African trade bloc aimed at creating a single continental market to boost intra-African trade, economic integration, and development across African Union member states.
  • E. African Monetary Union
    The African Monetary Union is a proposed initiative to create a single continental currency and unified monetary policy for member states of the African Union.
  • 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: East African Community Customs Union
Triple: [East African Community, hasCustomsUnion, East African Community Customs Union]
Generated description
The East African Community Customs Union is a regional trade bloc arrangement that establishes a common external tariff and free trade area among East African Community member states to facilitate economic integration and cross-border commerce.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: East African Community Customs Union
Target entity description: The East African Community Customs Union is a regional trade bloc arrangement that establishes a common external tariff and free trade area among East African Community member states to facilitate economic integration and cross-border commerce.
  • A. East African Community chosen
    The East African Community is a regional intergovernmental organization of several East African countries that promotes economic integration, political cooperation, and social development across the region.
  • B. Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
    The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is a regional economic bloc of African states focused on promoting trade integration, economic cooperation, and development across Eastern and Southern Africa.
  • C. Southern African Development Community
    The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is a regional intergovernmental organization that promotes economic integration, political cooperation, and development among countries in Southern Africa.
  • D. African Continental Free Trade Area
    The African Continental Free Trade Area is a pan-African trade bloc aimed at creating a single continental market to boost intra-African trade, economic integration, and development across African Union member states.
  • E. African Monetary Union
    The African Monetary Union is a proposed initiative to create a single continental currency and unified monetary policy for member states of the African Union.
  • F. None of above.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: hasCustomsUnion
Context triple: [East African Community, hasCustomsUnion, East African Community Customs Union]
  • A. isLinkedEconomicallyTo
    Indicates that two entities are connected through economic relationships such as trade, investment, financial flows, or shared market dependencies.
  • B. hasFreeTradeAgreement
    Indicates that two entities are linked by a formal free trade agreement that reduces or eliminates trade barriers between them.
  • C. europeanUnionStatus
    Indicates whether an entity is a member of, associated with, or otherwise holds a defined status in relation to the European Union.
  • D. hasSupranationalInstitution
    Indicates that an entity is associated with or governed by an institution that operates above the level of individual nation-states.
  • E. hasOverseasTerritory
    Indicates that one entity possesses or controls a territory located outside its own primary geographic or sovereign domain.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69a2e7951ba08190960e90823b5078f3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2eafef8c88190a5932eb2c6ac4a5d completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3dd2ff66c8190a0e688e4f9baa5b4 completed March 1, 2026, 6:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3ddbbe7e08190ac167e158d19dbce completed March 1, 2026, 6:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3de3fef7c819082193eb7083175e1 completed March 1, 2026, 6:35 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a2e9530c98819085025efe4e04aa7e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:10 p.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69a2ea0a4c448190a8a179daa9b90645 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:13 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.