Triple
T9128972
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | West African Craton |
E219034
|
entity |
| Predicate | boundedBy |
P224
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Trans-Saharan Belt |
E457102
|
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: Trans-Saharan Belt | Statement: [West African Craton, boundedBy, Trans-Saharan Belt]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Trans-Saharan Belt Context triple: [West African Craton, boundedBy, Trans-Saharan Belt]
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A.
Trans-Saharan belt
chosen
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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B.
Trans-Saharan Africa
Trans-Saharan Africa is the vast region spanning the Sahara Desert and its surrounding countries in North and West Africa, historically significant for trade routes and contemporary security and counterterrorism operations.
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C.
Sahel
The Sahel is a semi-arid transition zone in Africa between the Sahara Desert to the north and the more humid savannas to the south, spanning several countries from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.
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D.
Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa is a peninsula in Northeast Africa that juts into the Arabian Sea and is known for countries such as Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti, serving as a strategic and cultural crossroads between Africa and the Arab world.
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E.
Maghreb-Sahel interface
The Maghreb-Sahel interface is a transitional zone in North and West Africa where the cultures, economies, and ecologies of the North African Maghreb and the sub-Saharan Sahel intersect and blend.
- 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_69ca83debfc0819095800583e97ab10f |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cca8cc85b081908ee80db0e3b7df15 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 5:10 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d030a934988190976aa359f9f902c3 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 9:27 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:18 p.m.