Triple

T12829460
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty of 1890 E306745 entity
Predicate recognizedSphereOfInfluence P2828 FINISHED
Object British Empire in Zanzibar E362982 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 Empire in Zanzibar | Statement: [Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty of 1890, recognizedSphereOfInfluence, British Empire in Zanzibar]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: British Empire in Zanzibar
Context triple: [Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty of 1890, recognizedSphereOfInfluence, British Empire in Zanzibar]
  • A. Independence of Zanzibar
    The Independence of Zanzibar refers to the 1963 end of British colonial rule over the Zanzibar Sultanate, leading to its brief status as a sovereign state before uniting with Tanganyika to form Tanzania.
  • B. British control of the Straits Zone
    British control of the Straits Zone was the post-World War I British military and administrative occupation of the strategic Turkish Straits area, aimed at securing naval access between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and enforcing Allied terms on the defeated Ottoman Empire.
  • C. Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar
    The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar is the semi-autonomous governing authority of the Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar, responsible for its internal administration and political leadership.
  • D. Sultanate of Zanzibar chosen
    The Sultanate of Zanzibar was a 19th- and early 20th-century Indian Ocean island state ruled by an Omani Arab dynasty, known for its clove trade, strategic coastal position, and role in East African commerce and the slave trade.
  • E. British Protectorate of Basutoland
    The British Protectorate of Basutoland was a southern African territory under British colonial rule from the late 19th century until 1966, when it gained independence as the Kingdom of Lesotho.
  • 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_69d7bdf52b94819096d6f0ba4ab50a98 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96faf9ae481908265e198f917d1e6 completed April 10, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f68ed6cc9c8190aa66075505b42ec0 completed May 2, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:34 p.m.