Triple
T11331566
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Shona uprisings of 1896–1897 |
E268354
|
entity |
| Predicate | opposedBy |
P437
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British South Africa Company administration |
E54573
|
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 administration | Statement: [Shona uprisings of 1896–1897, opposedBy, British South Africa Company administration]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British South Africa Company administration Context triple: [Shona uprisings of 1896–1897, opposedBy, British South Africa Company administration]
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A.
British South Africa Company
chosen
The British South Africa Company was a chartered company founded by Cecil Rhodes that administered and exploited large areas of southern and central Africa, notably in territories that became Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
British South Africa
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.
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C.
Transvaal Colony government
The Transvaal Colony government was the British colonial administration that governed the former South African Republic after the Second Boer War, prior to its incorporation into the Union of South Africa.
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D.
German colonial administration of German South West Africa
The German colonial administration of German South West Africa was the governing authority established by the German Empire to control and administer its colony in present-day Namibia from the late 19th century until World War I.
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E.
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.
- 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.