Triple

T4199469
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cheikh Anta Diop University E86031 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Cheikh Anta Diop
Cheikh Anta Diop was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and physicist renowned for his influential research on the African origins of civilization and the cultural unity of Africa.
E420456 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: Cheikh Anta Diop | Statement: [Cheikh Anta Diop University, namedAfter, Cheikh Anta Diop]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cheikh Anta Diop
Context triple: [Cheikh Anta Diop University, namedAfter, Cheikh Anta Diop]
  • A. Melville J. Herskovits
    Melville J. Herskovits was an American anthropologist known for pioneering African and African diaspora studies and for challenging racial and cultural biases in social science.
  • B. Ahmed Baba of Timbuktu
    Ahmed Baba of Timbuktu was a prominent 16th–17th century West African Islamic scholar, jurist, and writer renowned for his extensive scholarship and defense of learning in Timbuktu.
  • C. Abraham Zogoiby
    Abraham Zogoiby is a powerful, morally ambiguous Jewish-Indian spice magnate and patriarch in Salman Rushdie’s novel "The Moor’s Last Sigh," whose complex life and relationships drive much of the story’s drama.
  • D. Frances Shapiro Herskovits
    Frances Shapiro Herskovits was an American anthropologist and collaborator known for her work alongside her husband Melville J. Herskovits in the development of cultural anthropology.
  • E. Sonallah Ibrahim
    Sonallah Ibrahim is a prominent Egyptian novelist and short story writer known for his politically charged, experimental works that critique authoritarianism and social injustice in the Arab world.
  • 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: Cheikh Anta Diop
Triple: [Cheikh Anta Diop University, namedAfter, Cheikh Anta Diop]
Generated description
Cheikh Anta Diop was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and physicist renowned for his influential research on the African origins of civilization and the cultural unity of Africa.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cheikh Anta Diop
Target entity description: Cheikh Anta Diop was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and physicist renowned for his influential research on the African origins of civilization and the cultural unity of Africa.
  • A. Melville J. Herskovits
    Melville J. Herskovits was an American anthropologist known for pioneering African and African diaspora studies and for challenging racial and cultural biases in social science.
  • B. Ahmed Baba of Timbuktu
    Ahmed Baba of Timbuktu was a prominent 16th–17th century West African Islamic scholar, jurist, and writer renowned for his extensive scholarship and defense of learning in Timbuktu.
  • C. Abraham Zogoiby
    Abraham Zogoiby is a powerful, morally ambiguous Jewish-Indian spice magnate and patriarch in Salman Rushdie’s novel "The Moor’s Last Sigh," whose complex life and relationships drive much of the story’s drama.
  • D. Frances Shapiro Herskovits
    Frances Shapiro Herskovits was an American anthropologist and collaborator known for her work alongside her husband Melville J. Herskovits in the development of cultural anthropology.
  • E. Sonallah Ibrahim
    Sonallah Ibrahim is a prominent Egyptian novelist and short story writer known for his politically charged, experimental works that critique authoritarianism and social injustice in the Arab world.
  • 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_69aed93b89f48190a31f6d57c760e42f completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af036243b4819097efe6b796823cd9 completed March 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b58a12c11481908033229ecf90c9f9 completed March 14, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b58e053adc8190909d92de845dd6df completed March 14, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b58f219a708190af631335027532e3 completed March 14, 2026, 4:38 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:49 p.m.