Triple

T8938208
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ouaddaï E212830 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Wadai Sultanate
The Wadai Sultanate was a powerful pre-colonial Islamic kingdom in central Africa, centered in what is now eastern Chad, that dominated regional trade and politics from the early modern period until French conquest in the early 20th century.
E767648 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: Wadai Sultanate | Statement: [Ouaddaï, namedAfter, Wadai Sultanate]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wadai Sultanate
Context triple: [Ouaddaï, namedAfter, Wadai Sultanate]
  • A. Funj Sultanate
    The Funj Sultanate was an early modern Islamic kingdom in what is now Sudan, known for unifying much of the Nile Valley region and fostering a distinctive blend of African and Arab cultures.
  • B. Warsangali Sultanate
    The Warsangali Sultanate was a prominent pre-colonial Somali sultanate in northeastern Somalia, known for its maritime trade, Islamic scholarship, and long-ruling dynastic leadership.
  • C. Fadhli Sultanate
    The Fadhli Sultanate was a traditional Arab sultanate in the Aden Protectorate region of southern Arabia, later incorporated into the Federation of South Arabia before becoming part of modern Yemen.
  • D. Songhai Empire
    The Songhai Empire was a powerful and wealthy medieval West African state centered along the Niger River, renowned for its control of trans-Saharan trade and cities like Gao and Timbuktu.
  • E. Kebbi Kingdom
    Kebbi Kingdom was a historic Hausa state in what is now northwestern Nigeria, known for its role in regional trade and military power in the central Sudan region.
  • 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: Wadai Sultanate
Triple: [Ouaddaï, namedAfter, Wadai Sultanate]
Generated description
The Wadai Sultanate was a powerful pre-colonial Islamic kingdom in central Africa, centered in what is now eastern Chad, that dominated regional trade and politics from the early modern period until French conquest in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wadai Sultanate
Target entity description: The Wadai Sultanate was a powerful pre-colonial Islamic kingdom in central Africa, centered in what is now eastern Chad, that dominated regional trade and politics from the early modern period until French conquest in the early 20th century.
  • A. Funj Sultanate
    The Funj Sultanate was an early modern Islamic kingdom in what is now Sudan, known for unifying much of the Nile Valley region and fostering a distinctive blend of African and Arab cultures.
  • B. Warsangali Sultanate
    The Warsangali Sultanate was a prominent pre-colonial Somali sultanate in northeastern Somalia, known for its maritime trade, Islamic scholarship, and long-ruling dynastic leadership.
  • C. Fadhli Sultanate
    The Fadhli Sultanate was a traditional Arab sultanate in the Aden Protectorate region of southern Arabia, later incorporated into the Federation of South Arabia before becoming part of modern Yemen.
  • D. Songhai Empire
    The Songhai Empire was a powerful and wealthy medieval West African state centered along the Niger River, renowned for its control of trans-Saharan trade and cities like Gao and Timbuktu.
  • E. Kebbi Kingdom
    Kebbi Kingdom was a historic Hausa state in what is now northwestern Nigeria, known for its role in regional trade and military power in the central Sudan region.
  • 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_69ca839694c88190b324ffeb43d23b08 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc66b57a348190979effe4f9998eb7 completed April 1, 2026, 12:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfc1e692548190b631c4926927d12f completed April 3, 2026, 1:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfc2b23be0819089503ca761f3f0b4 completed April 3, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfc3731fbc8190bd3efc9a9786d078 completed April 3, 2026, 1:41 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:58 p.m.