Triple
T6260602
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Libyan Desert |
E140285
|
entity |
| Predicate | partOf |
P40
|
FINISHED |
| Object | North African desert belt |
E87276
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: North African desert belt | Statement: [Libyan Desert, partOf, North African desert belt]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North African desert belt Context triple: [Libyan Desert, partOf, North African desert belt]
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A.
Northern Sahara
The Northern Sahara is the vast arid expanse forming the northern portion of the Sahara Desert, encompassing regions such as the M’zab in Algeria and characterized by rocky plateaus, sand seas, and oases.
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B.
Afro-Eurasian desert belt
chosen
The Afro-Eurasian desert belt is a vast, continuous arid zone stretching across North Africa, the Middle East, and Central to East Asia, encompassing many of the world’s largest hot and cold deserts.
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C.
Nubian Desert
The Nubian Desert is a hyper-arid region of the eastern Sahara in northeastern Sudan and northern Eritrea, characterized by rocky plateaus, sand dunes, and sparse vegetation along the Nile.
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D.
Trans-Saharan belt
The Trans-Saharan belt is a major Neoproterozoic orogenic zone in North and West Africa, formed during the Pan-African orogeny and characterized by extensive metamorphic and igneous rock assemblages.
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E.
Western Desert
The Western Desert is a sparsely populated arid region in northeastern Africa, primarily in Egypt and Libya, that was a major theater of combat during the North African Campaign of World War II.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c008c95c5c819084bd3dd56133d84d |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c063856f308190a351a661caaae5f9 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 9:47 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c24444b85c8190adf09c473b42ea9b |
completed | March 24, 2026, 7:59 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:24 p.m.