Triple

T11331546
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject First Matabele War E268353 entity
Predicate countryAtTime P878 FINISHED
Object British South Africa Company territory E170029 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: British South Africa Company territory | Statement: [First Matabele War, countryAtTime, British South Africa Company territory]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British South Africa Company territory
Context triple: [First Matabele War, countryAtTime, British South Africa Company territory]
  • A. British Protectorate of Basutoland
    The British Protectorate of Basutoland was a southern African territory under British colonial rule from the late 19th century until 1966, when it gained independence as the Kingdom of Lesotho.
  • B. British South Africa chosen
    British South Africa refers to the territories in southern Africa that were under British colonial rule, including regions that later became countries such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi.
  • C. Bechuanaland Protectorate
    The Bechuanaland Protectorate was a British colonial territory in Southern Africa that existed from the late 19th century until it gained independence as the Republic of Botswana in 1966.
  • D. Colony of Natal
    The Colony of Natal was a British colonial territory in southeastern Africa, centered on the port of Durban, that existed from the mid-19th century until it became part of the Union of South Africa in 1910.
  • E. Swaziland Protectorate
    Swaziland Protectorate was a British colonial protectorate in Southern Africa that preceded the modern independent nation of Eswatini.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d6aacb1f0881908c84a349fd1be047 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e9fd38308190a5458be1bfcc89ea completed April 9, 2026, 6:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e526236b688190aca4f2400a12e726 completed April 19, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:32 p.m.