Triple

T10295563
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zimbabwe–Zambia border E241475 entity
Predicate wasInternalBoundaryOf P59963 FINISHED
Object Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland E164716 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: Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland | Statement: [Zimbabwe–Zambia border, wasInternalBoundaryOf, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Context triple: [Zimbabwe–Zambia border, wasInternalBoundaryOf, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland]
  • A. Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland chosen
    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.
  • 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. Northern Rhodesia
    Northern Rhodesia was a former British protectorate in south-central Africa that later became the independent nation of Zambia in 1964.
  • E. Kingdom of Zimbabwe
    The Kingdom of Zimbabwe was a powerful medieval Shona state in southeastern Africa, renowned for its monumental stone architecture at Great Zimbabwe and its role as a major center of regional trade.
  • 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: wasInternalBoundaryOf
Context triple: [Zimbabwe–Zambia border, wasInternalBoundaryOf, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland]
  • A. isBoundaryFor
    Indicates that one entity serves as the limiting edge, border, or enclosing extent that defines the spatial or conceptual bounds of another entity.
  • B. innerBoundaryRegion
    Indicates that one region serves as the inner boundary or enclosed area within another region or geometric entity.
  • C. hasBoundaryUnit
    Indicates that one entity uses or is associated with a specific unit of measurement for its boundary or limit.
  • D. borderIsInternalTo chosen
    Indicates that the boundary or border of one entity lies entirely within the interior of another entity, without crossing or extending outside it.
  • E. borderedBy
    Indicates that one entity shares a common boundary or edge with another entity.
  • 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_69d794d34978819083ce709fa2dcaca7 completed April 9, 2026, noon
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69d4d1f35e548190be3b4d92d65d2d20 completed April 7, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:43 a.m.