Triple

T19154633
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sancian E468899 entity
Predicate locatedOnTradeRoute P62174 FINISHED
Object Portuguese India–China route
The Portuguese India–China route was a key maritime trade corridor of the Age of Discovery linking Portuguese colonial possessions in India with Chinese ports, facilitating commerce in spices, silk, and other luxury goods.
E769096 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: Portuguese India–China route | Statement: [Sancian, locatedOnTradeRoute, Portuguese India–China route]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portuguese India–China route
Context triple: [Sancian, locatedOnTradeRoute, Portuguese India–China route]
  • A. Portuguese India Armadas
    The Portuguese India Armadas were the annual fleets of ships dispatched by Portugal during the Age of Discovery to establish and maintain maritime trade routes and colonial presence in India and the broader Indian Ocean.
  • B. East–West maritime trade routes
    East–West maritime trade routes are major historical and modern sea lanes that connect Asian, Middle Eastern, African, and European regions, enabling large-scale exchange of goods, cultures, and ideas across the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
  • C. Portuguese expansion in the Indian Ocean
    Portuguese expansion in the Indian Ocean was a 16th-century maritime and military campaign through which Portugal established a network of fortified trading posts and naval dominance over key spice and trade routes between Africa and Asia.
  • D. Portuguese India
    Portuguese India was a collection of colonial enclaves on the Indian subcontinent that served for centuries as the main base of Portugal’s maritime trade and imperial presence in Asia.
  • E. Indian Ocean trade network
    The Indian Ocean trade network was a vast, centuries-long maritime system connecting East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia through the exchange of goods, cultures, and ideas driven by monsoon winds.
  • 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: Portuguese India–China route
Triple: [Sancian, locatedOnTradeRoute, Portuguese India–China route]
Generated description
The Portuguese India–China route was a key maritime trade corridor of the Age of Discovery linking Portuguese colonial possessions in India with Chinese ports, facilitating commerce in spices, silk, and other luxury goods.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portuguese India–China route
Target entity description: The Portuguese India–China route was a key maritime trade corridor of the Age of Discovery linking Portuguese colonial possessions in India with Chinese ports, facilitating commerce in spices, silk, and other luxury goods.
  • A. Portuguese India Armadas
    The Portuguese India Armadas were the annual fleets of ships dispatched by Portugal during the Age of Discovery to establish and maintain maritime trade routes and colonial presence in India and the broader Indian Ocean.
  • B. East–West maritime trade routes chosen
    East–West maritime trade routes are major historical and modern sea lanes that connect Asian, Middle Eastern, African, and European regions, enabling large-scale exchange of goods, cultures, and ideas across the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
  • C. Portuguese expansion in the Indian Ocean
    Portuguese expansion in the Indian Ocean was a 16th-century maritime and military campaign through which Portugal established a network of fortified trading posts and naval dominance over key spice and trade routes between Africa and Asia.
  • D. Portuguese India
    Portuguese India was a collection of colonial enclaves on the Indian subcontinent that served for centuries as the main base of Portugal’s maritime trade and imperial presence in Asia.
  • E. Indian Ocean trade network
    The Indian Ocean trade network was a vast, centuries-long maritime system connecting East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia through the exchange of goods, cultures, and ideas driven by monsoon winds.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d8dd084ff48190ac0f8c46ee722629 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5eeb81bf08190b0352137eb4a5763 completed April 20, 2026, 9:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a06f256821081908b69afd367040866 completed May 15, 2026, 10:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a06f303c4fc8190a9a972dd1561bc84 completed May 15, 2026, 10:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a06f4039ca881908679e5da604eea50 completed May 15, 2026, 10:22 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:06 p.m.