Triple

T16808916
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Executive Committee of Communications and Works E408554 entity
Predicate timePeriod P302 FINISHED
Object British colonial period in Ceylon E13053 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 colonial period in Ceylon | Statement: [Executive Committee of Communications and Works, timePeriod, British colonial period in Ceylon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British colonial period in Ceylon
Context triple: [Executive Committee of Communications and Works, timePeriod, British colonial period in Ceylon]
  • A. Burghers in Ceylon
    Burghers in Ceylon were a Eurasian ethnic community in colonial and early 20th-century Sri Lanka, primarily of mixed European (especially Portuguese and Dutch) and local ancestry, who held a distinct social and legal status under British rule.
  • B. Government of Ceylon
    The Government of Ceylon was the central governing authority of the British Crown colony and later dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) until the country became a republic in 1972.
  • C. Ceylon Civil Service
    The Ceylon Civil Service was the elite administrative corps of British Ceylon responsible for governing and managing the island’s colonial bureaucracy.
  • D. British Ceylon chosen
    British Ceylon was the British colonial possession in the Indian Ocean that encompassed the island of present-day Sri Lanka from the late 18th century until its independence in 1948.
  • E. Politics of Ceylon
    Politics of Ceylon refers to the political system, institutions, parties, and historical developments of the former British colony and later independent state now known as Sri Lanka, prior to its republican transition.
  • 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_69d88393905081908d00a86b99996ac8 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3b2ceab608190a9c8cd339ddbea0a completed April 18, 2026, 4:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00c79a96408190ab01ccd144f3fade completed May 10, 2026, 5:59 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:23 a.m.