Triple
T12847985
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | House of Khumalo |
E307232
|
entity |
| Predicate | successorPolity |
P68300
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
British South Africa Company rule in Matabeleland
British South Africa Company rule in Matabeleland was a period of chartered company colonial administration in what is now western Zimbabwe, following the conquest of the Ndebele kingdom.
|
E1007101
|
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: British South Africa Company rule in Matabeleland | Statement: [House of Khumalo, successorPolity, British South Africa Company rule in Matabeleland]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British South Africa Company rule in Matabeleland Context triple: [House of Khumalo, successorPolity, British South Africa Company rule in Matabeleland]
-
A.
British protectorate administration in Northern Rhodesia
The British protectorate administration in Northern Rhodesia was the colonial governmental authority that directly governed the territory (now Zambia) on behalf of the British Crown after the end of company rule.
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B.
Transvaal independence movement
The Transvaal independence movement was a late 19th-century Boer nationalist struggle to restore the South African Republic’s sovereignty from British imperial rule.
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C.
Bechuanaland Expedition
The Bechuanaland Expedition was a British military campaign in the mid-1880s aimed at asserting imperial control and restoring order in the Bechuanaland region of southern Africa.
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D.
Venda bantustan
Venda bantustan was a nominally independent, apartheid-era homeland in northern South Africa designated for the Venda-speaking people.
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E.
Southern Rhodesia Constitution
The Southern Rhodesia Constitution was the legal framework that defined the colonial self-governance, political institutions, and powers of the government in Southern Rhodesia.
- 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: British South Africa Company rule in Matabeleland Triple: [House of Khumalo, successorPolity, British South Africa Company rule in Matabeleland]
Generated description
British South Africa Company rule in Matabeleland was a period of chartered company colonial administration in what is now western Zimbabwe, following the conquest of the Ndebele kingdom.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British South Africa Company rule in Matabeleland Target entity description: British South Africa Company rule in Matabeleland was a period of chartered company colonial administration in what is now western Zimbabwe, following the conquest of the Ndebele kingdom.
-
A.
British protectorate administration in Northern Rhodesia
The British protectorate administration in Northern Rhodesia was the colonial governmental authority that directly governed the territory (now Zambia) on behalf of the British Crown after the end of company rule.
-
B.
Transvaal independence movement
The Transvaal independence movement was a late 19th-century Boer nationalist struggle to restore the South African Republic’s sovereignty from British imperial rule.
-
C.
Bechuanaland Expedition
The Bechuanaland Expedition was a British military campaign in the mid-1880s aimed at asserting imperial control and restoring order in the Bechuanaland region of southern Africa.
-
D.
Venda bantustan
Venda bantustan was a nominally independent, apartheid-era homeland in northern South Africa designated for the Venda-speaking people.
-
E.
Southern Rhodesia Constitution
The Southern Rhodesia Constitution was the legal framework that defined the colonial self-governance, political institutions, and powers of the government in Southern Rhodesia.
- 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_69d7bdf5e7cc8190be357278bc5ba3bb |
completed | April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d9701fe684819084582d1b4c809429 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 9:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f69ba1ef2481909bcf68a698afd3c6 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 12:49 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f69dad1f9c8190b48c40f49dbd396d |
completed | May 3, 2026, 12:58 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f69e5fd19c819082f9fe0d26c56c9a |
completed | May 3, 2026, 1:01 a.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:36 p.m.