Triple

T17009469
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British South Africa Company forces E412659 entity
Predicate conflict P12 FINISHED
Object Pioneer Column occupation of Mashonaland E268353 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: Pioneer Column occupation of Mashonaland | Statement: [British South Africa Company forces, conflict, Pioneer Column occupation of Mashonaland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Pioneer Column occupation of Mashonaland
Context triple: [British South Africa Company forces, conflict, Pioneer Column occupation of Mashonaland]
  • A. British South Africa Company rule in Matabeleland
    British South Africa Company rule in Matabeleland was a period of chartered company colonial administration in what is now western Zimbabwe, following the conquest of the Ndebele kingdom.
  • B. siege of Bulawayo
    The siege of Bulawayo was a key 1896 confrontation in what is now Zimbabwe, where Ndebele forces surrounded the colonial town of Bulawayo during the Second Matabele War before being relieved by British-led columns.
  • C. British occupation of Bloemfontein
    The British occupation of Bloemfontein was a key phase of the Second Boer War during which British forces captured and held the Orange Free State capital, marking a major strategic and symbolic setback for the Boer republics.
  • D. First Matabele War chosen
    The First Matabele War was an 1893–1894 colonial conflict in what is now Zimbabwe, in which British-led forces defeated the Ndebele (Matabele) Kingdom and paved the way for white settler control of the region.
  • E. Western Transvaal campaign
    The Western Transvaal campaign was a phase of the Second Boer War marked by mobile guerrilla fighting between British forces and Boer commandos in the western part of the Transvaal region of South Africa.
  • 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_69d886cc4170819093deddc7b8b4b6a7 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3d47a8444819081f1262eb7dbda40 completed April 18, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00dc241ec88190a3e868ab88b26f09 completed May 10, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:33 a.m.