Triple

T6817167
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shire River E156793 entity
Predicate passesNear P416 FINISHED
Object Chikwawa
Chikwawa is a town in southern Malawi known for its proximity to the Shire River and its role as an agricultural and trading center in the Lower Shire Valley.
E621743 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: Chikwawa | Statement: [Shire River, passesNear, Chikwawa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chikwawa
Context triple: [Shire River, passesNear, Chikwawa]
  • A. Lilongwe
    Lilongwe is the largest city and administrative and political center of Malawi, located in the country’s central region.
  • B. Matadi
    Matadi is a major port city in western Democratic Republic of the Congo, serving as the country’s principal seaport and a key gateway for trade between the Atlantic Ocean and the interior via the Congo River.
  • C. Tabora
    Tabora is a historic town in western Tanzania known as a regional trade center and former hub of 19th-century caravan routes.
  • D. Manzini
    Manzini is a major city in Eswatini that serves as an important commercial and transport hub of the country.
  • E. Bosambo
    Bosambo is a prominent fictional African chief featured in Edgar Wallace’s "Sanders of the River" stories, known for his cunning, charisma, and complex relationship with colonial authority.
  • 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: Chikwawa
Triple: [Shire River, passesNear, Chikwawa]
Generated description
Chikwawa is a town in southern Malawi known for its proximity to the Shire River and its role as an agricultural and trading center in the Lower Shire Valley.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chikwawa
Target entity description: Chikwawa is a town in southern Malawi known for its proximity to the Shire River and its role as an agricultural and trading center in the Lower Shire Valley.
  • A. Lilongwe
    Lilongwe is the largest city and administrative and political center of Malawi, located in the country’s central region.
  • B. Matadi
    Matadi is a major port city in western Democratic Republic of the Congo, serving as the country’s principal seaport and a key gateway for trade between the Atlantic Ocean and the interior via the Congo River.
  • C. Tabora
    Tabora is a historic town in western Tanzania known as a regional trade center and former hub of 19th-century caravan routes.
  • D. Manzini
    Manzini is a major city in Eswatini that serves as an important commercial and transport hub of the country.
  • E. Bosambo
    Bosambo is a prominent fictional African chief featured in Edgar Wallace’s "Sanders of the River" stories, known for his cunning, charisma, and complex relationship with colonial authority.
  • 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_69c688298a288190af3f285d57f76bbe completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d354177481908ab3cf5437c095e2 completed March 27, 2026, 6:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c723e0c62c8190b3b3b092ea48d4c5 completed March 28, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7247806808190ac60c134cec612c8 completed March 28, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c72536c4808190b9012e282cf02da4 completed March 28, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:17 p.m.