Triple
T12205517
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Combined Development Trust |
E290825
|
entity |
| Predicate | operatedIn |
P40
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Belgian Congo |
E495146
|
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: Belgian Congo | Statement: [Combined Development Trust, operatedIn, Belgian Congo]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Belgian Congo Context triple: [Combined Development Trust, operatedIn, Belgian Congo]
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A.
Congo Free State
The Congo Free State was a vast Central African territory privately controlled by Belgium’s King Leopold II in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, notorious for extreme exploitation and atrocities during European colonial expansion.
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B.
Belgian Congo (as associated territory)
chosen
Belgian Congo (as associated territory) was a central African colony under Belgian rule that served as the administrative and economic hub for nearby territories such as Ruanda-Urundi during the colonial period.
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C.
French Equatorial Africa
French Equatorial Africa was a federation of French colonial territories in central Africa that served as an important political and military base for Free French forces during World War II.
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D.
Congo-Léopoldville
Congo-Léopoldville was the name of the newly independent central African state now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the early 1960s, a period marked by political crisis and UN peacekeeping intervention.
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E.
Dutch Angola
Dutch Angola was a short-lived 17th-century Dutch colonial foothold on the west coast of Central Africa, centered on Luanda and primarily focused on the Atlantic slave trade.
- 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_69d6ab65923081909acfc61b7a612233 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d91c7c9084819085e7d2f9038f409f |
completed | April 10, 2026, 3:51 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f60a9ae3d48190a220ccd37ce8d3e7 |
completed | May 2, 2026, 2:30 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:51 p.m.