Triple
T11378891
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Second Matabele War |
E269538
|
entity |
| Predicate | relatedTo |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British South Africa Company rule in Rhodesia |
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 rule in Rhodesia | Statement: [Second Matabele War, relatedTo, British South Africa Company rule in Rhodesia]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British South Africa Company rule in Rhodesia Context triple: [Second Matabele War, relatedTo, British South Africa Company rule in Rhodesia]
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A.
Government of Southern Rhodesia
The Government of Southern Rhodesia was the colonial administration that governed the self-governing British territory of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) prior to independence.
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B.
Government of Rhodesia
The Government of Rhodesia was the unrecognized white-minority regime that unilaterally declared independence from Britain in 1965 and ruled what is now Zimbabwe until majority rule was established in 1980.
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C.
Southern Rhodesia Constitution
The Southern Rhodesia Constitution was the legal framework that defined the colonial self-governance, political institutions, and powers of the government in Southern Rhodesia.
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D.
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.
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E.
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was a mid-20th-century semi-autonomous colonial union in southern Africa that combined the territories of modern-day Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi under British rule.
- 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.