Triple

T23539266
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Captaincy of Piauí E577693 entity
Predicate borderedBy P224 FINISHED
Object Captaincy of Maranhão
The Captaincy of Maranhão was a colonial administrative division of the Portuguese Empire in northern Brazil, centered around São Luís and serving as a key hub for regional governance and trade.
 E1591693 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: Captaincy of Maranhão | Statement: [Captaincy of Piauí, borderedBy, Captaincy of Maranhão]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Captaincy of Maranhão
Context triple: [Captaincy of Piauí, borderedBy, Captaincy of Maranhão]
  • A. Captaincy of Paraíba
    The Captaincy of Paraíba was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil located in the northeastern region along the Atlantic coast, centered around the area of present-day Paraíba state.
  • B. Captaincy of Pernambuco
    The Captaincy of Pernambuco was a major colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil, centered on the lucrative sugar-producing region around present-day Recife and Olinda.
  • C. Captaincy of Ceará
    The Captaincy of Ceará was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil that encompassed the territory of present-day Ceará in northeastern Brazil.
  • D. Captaincy of Piauí
    The Captaincy of Piauí was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil located in the northeastern interior, corresponding roughly to the modern Brazilian state of Piauí.
  • E. Captaincy of Bahia
    The Captaincy of Bahia was a major colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil centered on the important coastal city of Salvador, which served as an early capital and key political, economic, and military hub in the 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: Captaincy of Maranhão
Triple: [Captaincy of Piauí, borderedBy, Captaincy of Maranhão]
Generated description
The Captaincy of Maranhão was a colonial administrative division of the Portuguese Empire in northern Brazil, centered around São Luís and serving as a key hub for regional governance and trade.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Captaincy of Maranhão
Target entity description: The Captaincy of Maranhão was a colonial administrative division of the Portuguese Empire in northern Brazil, centered around São Luís and serving as a key hub for regional governance and trade.
  • A. Captaincy of Paraíba
    The Captaincy of Paraíba was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil located in the northeastern region along the Atlantic coast, centered around the area of present-day Paraíba state.
  • B. Captaincy of Pernambuco
    The Captaincy of Pernambuco was a major colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil, centered on the lucrative sugar-producing region around present-day Recife and Olinda.
  • C. Captaincy of Ceará
    The Captaincy of Ceará was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil that encompassed the territory of present-day Ceará in northeastern Brazil.
  • D. Captaincy of Piauí
    The Captaincy of Piauí was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil located in the northeastern interior, corresponding roughly to the modern Brazilian state of Piauí.
  • E. Captaincy of Bahia
    The Captaincy of Bahia was a major colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil centered on the important coastal city of Salvador, which served as an early capital and key political, economic, and military hub in the 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_69e245f9d5d08190a4a20004e1784e20 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1ae19473881909aa65f9d36744502 completed April 29, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0cdf5bab58819082d5de1c9b47c0c8 completed May 19, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ce210d8108190a6338389fcefb5a4 completed May 19, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ce2bffdd8819081ef20b90bc0ae7b completed May 19, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 6:10 p.m.