Triple

T7131623
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mande E166201 entity
Predicate hasWritingSystem P454 FINISHED
Object Vai syllabary
The Vai syllabary is an indigenous writing system from Liberia and Sierra Leone used to represent the Vai language of the Mande family.
E643330 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: Vai syllabary | Statement: [Mande, hasWritingSystem, Vai syllabary]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vai syllabary
Context triple: [Mande, hasWritingSystem, Vai syllabary]
  • A. Kana
    Kana is the Japanese syllabic writing system comprising hiragana and katakana, used to represent native words, grammatical elements, and foreign terms.
  • B. Katakana
    Katakana is one of the two main Japanese phonetic writing systems, primarily used for foreign words, onomatopoeia, emphasis, and technical or scientific terms.
  • C. Cassidy-JLU writing system
    The Cassidy-JLU writing system is a standardized orthography developed for accurately representing the sounds and grammar of Jamaican Patois in written form.
  • D. Pe̍h-ōe-jī
    Pe̍h-ōe-jī is a Latin-based orthography developed by Western missionaries for writing Southern Min (Hokkien) and related Chinese dialects.
  • E. Cherokee syllabary
    The Cherokee syllabary is a writing system of 85 characters created in the early 19th century to represent the sounds of the Cherokee language and dramatically increase literacy among Cherokee people.
  • 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: Vai syllabary
Triple: [Mande, hasWritingSystem, Vai syllabary]
Generated description
The Vai syllabary is an indigenous writing system from Liberia and Sierra Leone used to represent the Vai language of the Mande family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vai syllabary
Target entity description: The Vai syllabary is an indigenous writing system from Liberia and Sierra Leone used to represent the Vai language of the Mande family.
  • A. Kana
    Kana is the Japanese syllabic writing system comprising hiragana and katakana, used to represent native words, grammatical elements, and foreign terms.
  • B. Katakana
    Katakana is one of the two main Japanese phonetic writing systems, primarily used for foreign words, onomatopoeia, emphasis, and technical or scientific terms.
  • C. Cassidy-JLU writing system
    The Cassidy-JLU writing system is a standardized orthography developed for accurately representing the sounds and grammar of Jamaican Patois in written form.
  • D. Pe̍h-ōe-jī
    Pe̍h-ōe-jī is a Latin-based orthography developed by Western missionaries for writing Southern Min (Hokkien) and related Chinese dialects.
  • E. Cherokee syllabary
    The Cherokee syllabary is a writing system of 85 characters created in the early 19th century to represent the sounds of the Cherokee language and dramatically increase literacy among Cherokee people.
  • 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_69c68884a9388190af42f90d1c1a7151 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e66f15b88190bc1fb0f0a8af16a6 completed March 27, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7a33eea0481909f87e0813bc35b52 completed March 28, 2026, 9:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7a3f2b51c81909f058149e9bd9f0a completed March 28, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7a4a9e91881909df07f1c540f191e completed March 28, 2026, 9:51 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:44 p.m.