Triple

T10295562
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zimbabwe–Zambia border E241475 entity
Predicate historicalColonialEntityOnZambiaSide P89482 FINISHED
Object Northern Rhodesia E314715 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Northern Rhodesia | Statement: [Zimbabwe–Zambia border, historicalColonialEntityOnZambiaSide, Northern Rhodesia]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Northern Rhodesia
Context triple: [Zimbabwe–Zambia border, historicalColonialEntityOnZambiaSide, Northern Rhodesia]
  • A. Northern Rhodesia chosen
    Northern Rhodesia was a former British protectorate in south-central Africa that later became the independent nation of Zambia in 1964.
  • B. Nyasaland
    Nyasaland was a former British protectorate in southeastern Africa that later became the independent nation of Malawi in 1964.
  • C. Rhodesia
    Rhodesia was an unrecognized, white-minority-ruled state in southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979 in the territory of modern-day Zimbabwe.
  • D. Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
    The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was a mid-20th-century semi-autonomous colonial union in southern Africa that combined the territories of modern-day Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi under British rule.
  • E. Nkana, Northern Rhodesia
    Nkana, Northern Rhodesia was a mining town in what is now Zambia, historically known for its copper industry during the British colonial period.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: historicalColonialEntityOnZambiaSide
Context triple: [Zimbabwe–Zambia border, historicalColonialEntityOnZambiaSide, Northern Rhodesia]
  • A. hasColonialHistoryWith
    Indicates that one entity has a historical relationship of colonization or being colonized involving the other entity.
  • B. colonialPowerInvolved
    Indicates that a colonial power is involved in, influences, or exerts control over the referenced situation, event, or relationship.
  • C. locatedInFormerColonyOf
    Indicates that one entity is geographically situated within a territory that was formerly a colony of another entity.
  • D. colonialTerritoryInvolved chosen
    Indicates that a colonial territory is involved or implicated in a particular event, process, or relationship.
  • E. usedByColonialPower
    Indicates that something is employed or exploited as a tool, resource, or mechanism by a colonial power in the context of domination or control.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (4 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_69d75018383481909abbba8247a93f8e completed April 9, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69d4d1f35e548190be3b4d92d65d2d20 completed April 7, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:43 a.m.