Triple

T6276669
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mende E140677 entity
Predicate artForm P3045 FINISHED
Object Sowei masks
Sowei masks are elaborately carved wooden helmet masks used by Mende women’s Sande societies in West Africa during initiation and ceremonial rites, symbolizing ideals of feminine beauty, wisdom, and spiritual power.
E581901 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: Sowei masks | Statement: [Mende, artForm, Sowei masks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sowei masks
Context triple: [Mende, artForm, Sowei masks]
  • A. Tatanua masks
    Tatanua masks are elaborately carved and painted ceremonial masks from New Ireland in Papua New Guinea, traditionally used in Malagan funerary rituals and other important cultural performances.
  • B. Vejigante masks
    Vejigante masks are brightly colored, often horned and demonic-looking traditional Puerto Rican carnival masks used in festivals and parades to represent mischievous or protective folkloric figures.
  • C. Grebo masks
    Grebo masks are traditional wooden face coverings created by the Grebo people of Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire, notable for their bold geometric features and strong influence on early 20th-century modernist art.
  • D. Mfon mask
    The Mfon mask is a culturally significant ritual mask of the Ibibio people of southeastern Nigeria, often associated with ancestral spirits, social status, and ceremonial performances.
  • E. Venetian masks
    Venetian masks are elaborately decorated face coverings traditionally worn during the Carnival of Venice, renowned for their ornate designs, historical roots in anonymity and social disguise, and enduring role in Italian cultural and artistic heritage.
  • 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: Sowei masks
Triple: [Mende, artForm, Sowei masks]
Generated description
Sowei masks are elaborately carved wooden helmet masks used by Mende women’s Sande societies in West Africa during initiation and ceremonial rites, symbolizing ideals of feminine beauty, wisdom, and spiritual power.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sowei masks
Target entity description: Sowei masks are elaborately carved wooden helmet masks used by Mende women’s Sande societies in West Africa during initiation and ceremonial rites, symbolizing ideals of feminine beauty, wisdom, and spiritual power.
  • A. Tatanua masks
    Tatanua masks are elaborately carved and painted ceremonial masks from New Ireland in Papua New Guinea, traditionally used in Malagan funerary rituals and other important cultural performances.
  • B. Vejigante masks
    Vejigante masks are brightly colored, often horned and demonic-looking traditional Puerto Rican carnival masks used in festivals and parades to represent mischievous or protective folkloric figures.
  • C. Grebo masks
    Grebo masks are traditional wooden face coverings created by the Grebo people of Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire, notable for their bold geometric features and strong influence on early 20th-century modernist art.
  • D. Mfon mask
    The Mfon mask is a culturally significant ritual mask of the Ibibio people of southeastern Nigeria, often associated with ancestral spirits, social status, and ceremonial performances.
  • E. Venetian masks
    Venetian masks are elaborately decorated face coverings traditionally worn during the Carnival of Venice, renowned for their ornate designs, historical roots in anonymity and social disguise, and enduring role in Italian cultural and artistic heritage.
  • 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_69c008cc158881908df6ec94a911c736 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c063d96fbc8190a9091456b82762d1 completed March 22, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c519478ed88190913f9e3ccf6368f1 completed March 26, 2026, 11:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c51eddcd4881909f1d3bee21c42ba2 completed March 26, 2026, 11:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c51f65f2c88190a1d58724b74b6dee completed March 26, 2026, 11:58 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:26 p.m.