Triple

T11331729
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British protectorate administration in Northern Rhodesia E268357 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object British colonial Africa E622143 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 colonial Africa | Statement: [British protectorate administration in Northern Rhodesia, partOf, British colonial Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: British colonial Africa
Context triple: [British protectorate administration in Northern Rhodesia, partOf, British colonial Africa]
  • A. British Africa chosen
    British Africa comprised the various African territories colonized and administered by the United Kingdom, including regions such as Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, and parts of Southern Africa, under British political and legal control.
  • B. British Empire in South Africa
    The British Empire in South Africa refers to the period of British colonial expansion, rule, and conflict in the region, including the annexation of territories and wars with Boer republics and indigenous peoples from the early 19th to early 20th centuries.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Scramble for Africa
    The Scramble for Africa was a late 19th-century period of rapid European colonization and partition of African territories, driven by imperial rivalry, economic interests, and strategic ambitions.
  • E. British colonial period
    The British colonial period was the era when the British Empire exercised political, economic, and administrative control over large parts of the world, including the Indian subcontinent, profoundly shaping their societies and institutions.
  • 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.