Triple
T11913522
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Prussian Gold Coast |
E283452
|
entity |
| Predicate | governingCompany |
P84211
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Brandenburg African Company
The Brandenburg African Company was a 17th–18th century Prussian chartered trading company that operated on the West African coast, engaging primarily in the gold and slave trades.
|
E953144
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (4 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: Brandenburg African Company | Statement: [Prussian Gold Coast, governingCompany, Brandenburg African Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brandenburg African Company Context triple: [Prussian Gold Coast, governingCompany, Brandenburg African Company]
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A.
Royal Niger Company
The Royal Niger Company was a British chartered company that controlled trade and administered large parts of the Niger River region in the late 19th century, laying groundwork for the eventual formation of colonial Nigeria.
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B.
Sierra Leone Company
The Sierra Leone Company was a British philanthropic and commercial organization that established and governed the early Freetown colony in West Africa as a settlement for freed Black people in the late 18th century.
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C.
British South Africa Company
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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D.
F. A. Lüderitz & Co.
F. A. Lüderitz & Co. was the trading and colonial enterprise founded by German merchant Adolf Lüderitz that played a key role in the early German colonization of what became German South West Africa (now Namibia).
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E.
Gambia Company
The Gambia Company was a British colonial military unit that formed part of the West African Frontier Force, recruited and deployed in the Gambia region.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg
Description generation
gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. # Instructions Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Brandenburg African Company Triple: [Prussian Gold Coast, governingCompany, Brandenburg African Company]
Generated description
The Brandenburg African Company was a 17th–18th century Prussian chartered trading company that operated on the West African coast, engaging primarily in the gold and slave trades.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brandenburg African Company Target entity description: The Brandenburg African Company was a 17th–18th century Prussian chartered trading company that operated on the West African coast, engaging primarily in the gold and slave trades.
-
A.
Royal Niger Company
The Royal Niger Company was a British chartered company that controlled trade and administered large parts of the Niger River region in the late 19th century, laying groundwork for the eventual formation of colonial Nigeria.
-
B.
Sierra Leone Company
The Sierra Leone Company was a British philanthropic and commercial organization that established and governed the early Freetown colony in West Africa as a settlement for freed Black people in the late 18th century.
-
C.
British South Africa Company
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.
-
D.
F. A. Lüderitz & Co.
F. A. Lüderitz & Co. was the trading and colonial enterprise founded by German merchant Adolf Lüderitz that played a key role in the early German colonization of what became German South West Africa (now Namibia).
-
E.
Gambia Company
The Gambia Company was a British colonial military unit that formed part of the West African Frontier Force, recruited and deployed in the Gambia region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (5 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_69d6ab2c07e88190ba13b0d21fd6cf33 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d8e52a2bc08190b80cc6ccf5779d7c |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f4186938548190b5ae10e111aece9a |
completed | May 1, 2026, 3:05 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f41f1e746c81909f78f0e0bf173c7b |
completed | May 1, 2026, 3:33 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f42291f3608190ab079f939d34cf15 |
completed | May 1, 2026, 3:48 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:44 p.m.