Triple
T15935896
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Dutch Governor of Ceylon |
E386439
|
entity |
| Predicate | historicalPeriod |
P302
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Dutch colonial period in Ceylon |
E2099
|
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: Dutch colonial period in Ceylon | Statement: [Dutch Governor of Ceylon, historicalPeriod, Dutch colonial period in Ceylon]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dutch colonial period in Ceylon Context triple: [Dutch Governor of Ceylon, historicalPeriod, Dutch colonial period in Ceylon]
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A.
Kandyan–Dutch conflicts
The Kandyan–Dutch conflicts were a series of 17th–18th century wars in Sri Lanka between the inland Kingdom of Kandy and the Dutch colonial powers vying for control of the island.
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B.
Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon)
chosen
Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon) was a former Dutch colonial territory on the island of Sri Lanka, controlled mainly for its strategic ports and lucrative cinnamon trade from the mid-17th to late 18th century.
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C.
British colonization of Sumatra
The British colonization of Sumatra refers to the period when the British established and administered trading posts and territorial holdings—most notably around Bencoolen (Bengkulu)—to control pepper and other regional trade in competition with Dutch influence in the Indonesian archipelago.
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D.
British administration of Java
The British administration of Java was a brief period (1811–1816) during which the British East India Company governed the island after seizing it from the Dutch in the Napoleonic Wars, introducing significant administrative and economic reforms.
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E.
Dominion of Ceylon
The Dominion of Ceylon was a British Commonwealth realm in South Asia that existed from 1948 to 1972, when it became the fully independent republic of Sri Lanka.
- 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_69d86da750008190987eb26be3f6c118 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e156aa33948190b2d5936d2db0071d |
completed | April 16, 2026, 9:37 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ffb5b8121881909b15bf6451d3d3a8 |
completed | May 9, 2026, 10:31 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:53 a.m.