Triple
T13896225
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Zachary Macaulay |
E334093
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Sierra Leone Company |
E767252
|
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: Sierra Leone Company | Statement: [Zachary Macaulay, employer, Sierra Leone Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sierra Leone Company Context triple: [Zachary Macaulay, employer, Sierra Leone Company]
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A.
Sierra Leone Company
chosen
The Sierra Leone Company was a British philanthropic and commercial organization that established and governed the early Freetown colony in West Africa as a settlement for freed Black people in the late 18th century.
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B.
Royal Niger Company
The Royal Niger Company was a British chartered company that controlled trade and administered large parts of the Niger River region in the late 19th century, laying groundwork for the eventual formation of colonial Nigeria.
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C.
Gambia Company
The Gambia Company was a British colonial military unit that formed part of the West African Frontier Force, recruited and deployed in the Gambia region.
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D.
Brandenburg African Company
The Brandenburg African Company was a 17th–18th century Prussian chartered trading company that operated on the West African coast, engaging primarily in the gold and slave trades.
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E.
Royal African Company
The Royal African Company was a 17th- and 18th-century English trading company that held a monopoly over British trade on the West African coast, playing a central role in the transatlantic 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_69d81c5dd2d48190b7a5fc1e009de936 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de25d72c6c819093bf9c43136839d4 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 11:32 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f7c71eb1808190b0a3a28a8011e9c7 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 10:07 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:15 p.m.