Triple

T1196795
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ceará E25684 entity
Predicate historicalRegion P915 FINISHED
Object Captaincy of Ceará
The Captaincy of Ceará was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil that encompassed the territory of present-day Ceará in northeastern Brazil.
 E138711 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: Captaincy of Ceará | Statement: [Ceará, historicalRegion, Captaincy of Ceará]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Captaincy of Ceará
Context triple: [Ceará, historicalRegion, Captaincy of Ceará]
  • A. Fortaleza
    Fortaleza is a large coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its beaches, tourism, and role as the capital of the state of Ceará.
  • B. São Vicente
    São Vicente is a prominent island in Cape Verde known for its cultural hub Mindelo, vibrant music scene, and important Atlantic port.
  • C. Bahia
    Bahia is a traditional Brazilian football club based in Salvador, known for its passionate fanbase and historic success in national competitions.
  • D. Portuguese reconquest of Recife
    The Portuguese reconquest of Recife was the 1654 military campaign in which Portugal expelled Dutch forces from their main stronghold in Brazil, effectively ending Dutch colonial rule in the region.
  • E. Captaincy General of Venezuela
    The Captaincy General of Venezuela was a Spanish colonial administrative district in northern South America that governed the territory of present-day Venezuela until its independence movements in the early 19th century.
  • 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: Captaincy of Ceará
Triple: [Ceará, historicalRegion, Captaincy of Ceará]
Generated description
The Captaincy of Ceará was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil that encompassed the territory of present-day Ceará in northeastern Brazil.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Captaincy of Ceará
Target entity description: The Captaincy of Ceará was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil that encompassed the territory of present-day Ceará in northeastern Brazil.
  • A. Fortaleza
    Fortaleza is a large coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its beaches, tourism, and role as the capital of the state of Ceará.
  • B. São Vicente
    São Vicente is a prominent island in Cape Verde known for its cultural hub Mindelo, vibrant music scene, and important Atlantic port.
  • C. Bahia
    Bahia is a traditional Brazilian football club based in Salvador, known for its passionate fanbase and historic success in national competitions.
  • D. Portuguese reconquest of Recife
    The Portuguese reconquest of Recife was the 1654 military campaign in which Portugal expelled Dutch forces from their main stronghold in Brazil, effectively ending Dutch colonial rule in the region.
  • E. Captaincy General of Venezuela
    The Captaincy General of Venezuela was a Spanish colonial administrative district in northern South America that governed the territory of present-day Venezuela until its independence movements in the early 19th century.
  • 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_69a49429f5ec8190a6a205eb0ae81e5e completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bd9a305c819091513394f1b67784 completed March 1, 2026, 10:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac7f383a1c8190932e4b200fec02b5 completed March 7, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac7fba00f0819086a0fffa090c5809 completed March 7, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac807ead9c819088f7195aec87a538 completed March 7, 2026, 7:46 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.