Triple
T14797675
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Colony of Dahomey |
E347821
|
entity |
| Predicate | borderedBy |
P224
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Colony of Niger |
E1121153
|
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: Colony of Niger | Statement: [Colony of Dahomey, borderedBy, Colony of Niger]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colony of Niger Context triple: [Colony of Dahomey, borderedBy, Colony of Niger]
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A.
Colony of Upper Volta
The Colony of Upper Volta was a French colonial territory in West Africa that later became the independent nation of Burkina Faso.
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B.
Colony of French Sudan
chosen
The Colony of French Sudan was a former French colonial territory in West Africa that largely corresponds to present-day Mali.
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C.
Colony of Dahomey
The Colony of Dahomey was a French colonial territory in West Africa that later became the independent nation of Benin.
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D.
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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E.
Kingdom of Kouandé
The Kingdom of Kouandé was a precolonial Bariba state located in what is now northern Benin, known for its regional political and cultural influence.
- 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_69d822ea8b7c819097dfadf3d45545e6 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69decd6131f08190885f1d27b4bfac7a |
completed | April 14, 2026, 11:27 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fe64f6c6148190941b05d06d4dc54d |
completed | May 8, 2026, 10:34 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:31 a.m.