Triple

T1394940
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Malacca Sultanate E30643 entity
Predicate successorState P3025 FINISHED
Object Portuguese Malacca
Portuguese Malacca was a 16th–17th century Portuguese colonial possession in Southeast Asia centered on the strategic port city of Malacca, which served as a key hub in European-Asian maritime trade.
E159530 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: Portuguese Malacca | Statement: [Malacca Sultanate, successorState, Portuguese Malacca]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portuguese Malacca
Context triple: [Malacca Sultanate, successorState, Portuguese Malacca]
  • A. Malacca
    Malacca is a historic Malaysian state on the southwest coast of the Malay Peninsula, renowned for its rich multicultural heritage and its former role as a major trading port.
  • B. Malacca Sultanate
    The Malacca Sultanate was a powerful 15th–16th century Malay maritime empire centered in the port city of Malacca, which became a major hub of regional trade and the spread of Islam in Southeast Asia.
  • C. Portuguese India
    Portuguese India was a collection of colonial enclaves on the Indian subcontinent that served for centuries as the main base of Portugal’s maritime trade and imperial presence in Asia.
  • D. Portuguese Ceylon
    Portuguese Ceylon was the period of Portuguese colonial rule over parts of the island of Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka) from the early 16th to mid-17th century, marked by control of coastal regions and the spice trade.
  • E. Portuguese conquest of Malacca
    The Portuguese conquest of Malacca was a 1511 military campaign led by Afonso de Albuquerque in which Portugal captured the strategic Southeast Asian port city of Malacca, establishing a key base for its maritime empire and control of regional spice trade routes.
  • 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: Portuguese Malacca
Triple: [Malacca Sultanate, successorState, Portuguese Malacca]
Generated description
Portuguese Malacca was a 16th–17th century Portuguese colonial possession in Southeast Asia centered on the strategic port city of Malacca, which served as a key hub in European-Asian maritime trade.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portuguese Malacca
Target entity description: Portuguese Malacca was a 16th–17th century Portuguese colonial possession in Southeast Asia centered on the strategic port city of Malacca, which served as a key hub in European-Asian maritime trade.
  • A. Malacca
    Malacca is a historic Malaysian state on the southwest coast of the Malay Peninsula, renowned for its rich multicultural heritage and its former role as a major trading port.
  • B. Malacca Sultanate
    The Malacca Sultanate was a powerful 15th–16th century Malay maritime empire centered in the port city of Malacca, which became a major hub of regional trade and the spread of Islam in Southeast Asia.
  • C. Portuguese India
    Portuguese India was a collection of colonial enclaves on the Indian subcontinent that served for centuries as the main base of Portugal’s maritime trade and imperial presence in Asia.
  • D. Portuguese Ceylon
    Portuguese Ceylon was the period of Portuguese colonial rule over parts of the island of Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka) from the early 16th to mid-17th century, marked by control of coastal regions and the spice trade.
  • E. Portuguese conquest of Malacca chosen
    The Portuguese conquest of Malacca was a 1511 military campaign led by Afonso de Albuquerque in which Portugal captured the strategic Southeast Asian port city of Malacca, establishing a key base for its maritime empire and control of regional spice trade routes.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a498fd4e408190bd73eca30ea9754c completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c37e60388190a8efcb345be7a1b9 completed March 1, 2026, 10:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad0156109081908f163af94e4e7978 completed March 8, 2026, 4:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad01b7d4348190b08a366a08d445dc completed March 8, 2026, 4:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad024e077c8190b0ef48ac7042ac5b completed March 8, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.