Triple
T10295429
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries |
E241472
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entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object | David Livingstone |
E50461
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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: David Livingstone | Statement: [Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries, author, David Livingstone]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Livingstone Context triple: [Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries, author, David Livingstone]
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A.
David Livingstone
chosen
David Livingstone was a 19th-century Scottish missionary and explorer renowned for his extensive travels in Africa and his influential role in mapping and documenting the continent for Europeans.
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B.
John Hanning Speke
John Hanning Speke was a 19th-century British explorer best known for his expeditions in East Africa and for identifying Lake Victoria as the principal source of the Nile.
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C.
Henry Morton Stanley
Henry Morton Stanley was a 19th-century Welsh-American explorer and journalist best known for his expeditions in central Africa and his famous encounter with missionary David Livingstone.
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D.
Mungo Park
Mungo Park was a 19th-century Scottish professional golfer known for winning the 1874 Open Championship.
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E.
Heinrich Barth
Heinrich Barth was a 19th-century German explorer and scholar renowned for his extensive travels and pioneering geographical and ethnographic studies across North and Central Africa.
- 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_69d381aaafc08190af475ef58dc16aba |
completed | April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d4d2ea9b3c8190b11518b259d5825c |
completed | April 7, 2026, 9:48 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d794d34978819083ce709fa2dcaca7 |
completed | April 9, 2026, noon |
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:43 a.m.