Triple

T10862208
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British Raj (Company rule in India) E256432 entity
Predicate policy P172 FINISHED
Object Subsidiary Alliance system
The Subsidiary Alliance system was a British imperial strategy in India under which Indian princely states accepted British troops and control over their foreign affairs in exchange for protection, effectively reducing them to dependent allies.
E14450 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: Subsidiary Alliance system | Statement: [British Raj (Company rule in India), policy, Subsidiary Alliance system]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Subsidiary Alliance system
Context triple: [British Raj (Company rule in India), policy, Subsidiary Alliance system]
  • A. Ryotwari system
    The Ryotwari system was a land revenue arrangement in British India under which taxes were collected directly from individual peasant cultivators rather than through intermediaries.
  • B. Doctrine of Lapse
    The Doctrine of Lapse was a controversial annexation policy used by the British East India Company in 19th-century India, allowing it to seize princely states without a direct male heir and significantly fueling resentment that led to the 1857 rebellion.
  • C. Indian princely states
    The Indian princely states were semi-autonomous, monarch-ruled territories in the Indian subcontinent that were nominally sovereign but operated under the suzerainty of the British Crown until their integration into independent India and Pakistan.
  • D. Maratha administration
    The Maratha administration was the governmental and revenue system of the Maratha Empire in early modern India, characterized by a decentralized structure, powerful regional nobles, and distinctive taxation practices.
  • E. Canton System
    The Canton System was an 18th–19th century Chinese trade regime that restricted foreign commerce to the port of Guangzhou (Canton) under strict imperial control, shaping early Western economic relations with China.
  • 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: Subsidiary Alliance system
Triple: [British Raj (Company rule in India), policy, Subsidiary Alliance system]
Generated description
The Subsidiary Alliance system was a British imperial strategy in India under which Indian princely states accepted British troops and control over their foreign affairs in exchange for protection, effectively reducing them to dependent allies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Subsidiary Alliance system
Target entity description: The Subsidiary Alliance system was a British imperial strategy in India under which Indian princely states accepted British troops and control over their foreign affairs in exchange for protection, effectively reducing them to dependent allies.
  • A. Ryotwari system
    The Ryotwari system was a land revenue arrangement in British India under which taxes were collected directly from individual peasant cultivators rather than through intermediaries.
  • B. Doctrine of Lapse
    The Doctrine of Lapse was a controversial annexation policy used by the British East India Company in 19th-century India, allowing it to seize princely states without a direct male heir and significantly fueling resentment that led to the 1857 rebellion.
  • C. Indian princely states chosen
    The Indian princely states were semi-autonomous, monarch-ruled territories in the Indian subcontinent that were nominally sovereign but operated under the suzerainty of the British Crown until their integration into independent India and Pakistan.
  • D. Maratha administration
    The Maratha administration was the governmental and revenue system of the Maratha Empire in early modern India, characterized by a decentralized structure, powerful regional nobles, and distinctive taxation practices.
  • E. Canton System
    The Canton System was an 18th–19th century Chinese trade regime that restricted foreign commerce to the port of Guangzhou (Canton) under strict imperial control, shaping early Western economic relations with China.
  • 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_69d6aa83d1448190a66d93c32394d21f completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7515238108190a72eb8cd147f223d completed April 9, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69dff7d350748190821a4413c1eb7106 completed April 15, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e0b498df2481908c964d53b1782774 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e11e21fc2c8190878a877ecd3b465e completed April 16, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:20 p.m.