Triple

T16400785
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British policies in India E398302 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Subsidiary Alliance system
The Subsidiary Alliance system was a British imperial strategy in India under which Indian princely states accepted British troops and control over their foreign affairs in exchange for protection, effectively reducing them to dependent allies.
E1212229 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: Subsidiary Alliance system | Statement: [British policies in India, associatedWith, Subsidiary Alliance system]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Subsidiary Alliance system
Context triple: [British policies in India, associatedWith, Subsidiary Alliance system]
  • A. Ryotwari system
    The Ryotwari system was a land revenue arrangement in British India under which taxes were collected directly from individual peasant cultivators rather than through intermediaries.
  • B. Doctrine of Lapse
    The Doctrine of Lapse was a controversial annexation policy used by the British East India Company in 19th-century India, allowing it to seize princely states without a direct male heir and significantly fueling resentment that led to the 1857 rebellion.
  • C. Indian princely states
    The Indian princely states were semi-autonomous, monarch-ruled territories in the Indian subcontinent that were nominally sovereign but operated under the suzerainty of the British Crown until their integration into independent India and Pakistan.
  • D. Maratha administration
    The Maratha administration was the governmental and revenue system of the Maratha Empire in early modern India, characterized by a decentralized structure, powerful regional nobles, and distinctive taxation practices.
  • E. Canton System
    The Canton System was an 18th–19th century Chinese trade regime that restricted foreign commerce to the port of Guangzhou (Canton) under strict imperial control, shaping early Western economic relations with China.
  • 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: Subsidiary Alliance system
Triple: [British policies in India, associatedWith, Subsidiary Alliance system]
Generated description
The Subsidiary Alliance system was a British imperial strategy in India under which Indian princely states accepted British troops and control over their foreign affairs in exchange for protection, effectively reducing them to dependent allies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Subsidiary Alliance system
Target entity description: The Subsidiary Alliance system was a British imperial strategy in India under which Indian princely states accepted British troops and control over their foreign affairs in exchange for protection, effectively reducing them to dependent allies.
  • A. Ryotwari system
    The Ryotwari system was a land revenue arrangement in British India under which taxes were collected directly from individual peasant cultivators rather than through intermediaries.
  • B. Doctrine of Lapse
    The Doctrine of Lapse was a controversial annexation policy used by the British East India Company in 19th-century India, allowing it to seize princely states without a direct male heir and significantly fueling resentment that led to the 1857 rebellion.
  • C. Indian princely states
    The Indian princely states were semi-autonomous, monarch-ruled territories in the Indian subcontinent that were nominally sovereign but operated under the suzerainty of the British Crown until their integration into independent India and Pakistan.
  • D. Maratha administration
    The Maratha administration was the governmental and revenue system of the Maratha Empire in early modern India, characterized by a decentralized structure, powerful regional nobles, and distinctive taxation practices.
  • E. Canton System
    The Canton System was an 18th–19th century Chinese trade regime that restricted foreign commerce to the port of Guangzhou (Canton) under strict imperial control, shaping early Western economic relations with China.
  • F. None of above. chosen

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_69d87f2950248190bc8ad9b9bebdc8c8 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e327cfb2fc8190bbc2765247c4b4e4 completed April 18, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a003c5e7b4881908245228730a65876 completed May 10, 2026, 8:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a003e490bf0819093acd954a4cd9b0c completed May 10, 2026, 8:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a003f1037408190a5edd4a5258b50c9 completed May 10, 2026, 8:17 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:09 a.m.