Triple

T15190042
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sultanate of Zanzibar E362982 entity
Predicate followedBy P78 FINISHED
Object British protectorate of Zanzibar E1141839 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 protectorate of Zanzibar | Statement: [Sultanate of Zanzibar, followedBy, British protectorate of Zanzibar]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: British protectorate of Zanzibar
Context triple: [Sultanate of Zanzibar, followedBy, British protectorate of Zanzibar]
  • A. British Protectorate of Zanzibar chosen
    The British Protectorate of Zanzibar was a period of British colonial control over the islands of Zanzibar off the East African coast, lasting from the late 19th century until the mid-20th century and shaping the region’s political and economic development.
  • B. Sultanate of Zanzibar
    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.
  • C. British Protectorate of the Gambia
    The British Protectorate of the Gambia was a colonial-era territory along the Gambia River in West Africa administered by the United Kingdom until the country’s independence in the 20th century.
  • D. People’s Republic of Zanzibar
    The People’s Republic of Zanzibar was a short-lived socialist state established after the 1964 revolution that overthrew the Sultanate of Zanzibar, before it merged with Tanganyika to form Tanzania.
  • E. British protectorate
    A British protectorate was a type of colonial relationship in which a territory retained its local rulers and internal administration but was under the control and protection of the British Empire in matters such as foreign policy and defense.
  • 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_69d85a09a39c81908759f23268e2d408 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0067beedc8190abc0a94c7a38f85e completed April 15, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fed32e425c819083f10f947c258a9b completed May 9, 2026, 6:24 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:10 a.m.