Triple

T12130303
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject flag of British colonial Nigeria E288916 entity
Predicate historicalEra P200 FINISHED
Object British colonial period in Nigeria E60432 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 period in Nigeria | Statement: [flag of British colonial Nigeria, historicalEra, British colonial period in Nigeria]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: British colonial period in Nigeria
Context triple: [flag of British colonial Nigeria, historicalEra, British colonial period in Nigeria]
  • A. 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.
  • B. British colonial administration in West Africa
    The British colonial administration in West Africa was the system of imperial governance through which Britain controlled and managed its West African colonies—politically, economically, and legally—from the nineteenth century until decolonization.
  • C. Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria chosen
    The Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria was a British colonial entity in West Africa that unified several previously separate territories into what later became the modern nation-state of Nigeria.
  • D. First Republic of Nigeria
    The First Republic of Nigeria was the country’s initial post-independence democratic government period (1963–1966), characterized by a parliamentary system and regional politics before being ended by a military coup.
  • E. Nigerian independence movement
    The Nigerian independence movement was a mid-20th-century nationalist struggle that united diverse political and ethnic groups to end British colonial rule and establish Nigeria as a sovereign nation in 1960.
  • 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_69d6ab4b5e4c81909950b17151eb0951 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9158a2c2c8190aaff9d0cce177565 completed April 10, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f5f68ac15c81908388dd3194e9dfc4 completed May 2, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:49 p.m.