Triple
T11378867
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Second Matabele War |
E269538
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasParticipant |
P149
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British South Africa Company forces |
E412659
|
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 forces | Statement: [Second Matabele War, hasParticipant, British South Africa Company forces]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British South Africa Company forces Context triple: [Second Matabele War, hasParticipant, British South Africa Company forces]
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A.
British South Africa Company forces
chosen
The British South Africa Company forces were the private colonial troops of Cecil Rhodes’s chartered company, used to expand and police British interests in southern Africa in the late 19th century.
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B.
Zulu Army
The Zulu Army was the highly disciplined and formidable military force of the Zulu Kingdom in southern Africa, renowned for its tactical innovations and major victories during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.
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C.
Boer forces
Boer forces were the predominantly mounted, guerrilla-style republican commandos of the South African Boers that fought against the British Empire during the Anglo-Boer Wars.
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D.
British South Africa Police
The British South Africa Police was the paramilitary police force of colonial Rhodesia, serving both as a national law enforcement agency and a key arm of the regime’s internal security and military operations.
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E.
Rhodesian Security Forces
The Rhodesian Security Forces were the military and police organizations of the unrecognized state of Rhodesia, central to its counterinsurgency efforts during the Rhodesian Bush War (1964–1979).
- 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_69d6aacca1048190b39dbbc2174616fa |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d7fc30f5d48190bb273df4c9e583a9 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e556a10f988190b173dc4880a8c6c6 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 10:26 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:33 p.m.