Triple
T18277415
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Colony of Curaçao and Dependencies |
E437773
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entity |
| Predicate | predecessor |
P97
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FINISHED |
| Object | Dutch West India Company possessions in the Caribbean |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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 West India Company possessions in the Caribbean | Statement: [Colony of Curaçao and Dependencies, predecessor, Dutch West India Company possessions in the Caribbean]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dutch West India Company possessions in the Caribbean Context triple: [Colony of Curaçao and Dependencies, predecessor, Dutch West India Company possessions in the Caribbean]
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A.
Caribbean colonies of the Dutch West India Company
chosen
The Caribbean colonies of the Dutch West India Company were a network of Dutch-controlled island and coastal territories in the Caribbean and northern South America that served as key hubs for trade, plantation agriculture, and the transatlantic slave trade during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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B.
Dutch colonial empire
The Dutch colonial empire was a global network of overseas territories and trading posts dominated by the Dutch Republic from the 17th to the 19th centuries, centered on maritime commerce, the Dutch East India Company, and control of key strategic ports and colonies.
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C.
Colony of Curaçao and Dependencies
The Colony of Curaçao and Dependencies was a former Dutch colonial territory in the Caribbean that served as the administrative precursor to the Netherlands Antilles.
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D.
Dutch East India Company settlement
A Dutch East India Company settlement was a colonial trading outpost established by the VOC to control regional commerce, secure maritime routes, and facilitate the spice and goods trade between Asia and Europe.
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E.
Dutch West India Company
The Dutch West India Company was a powerful 17th-century chartered company of the Dutch Republic that dominated Atlantic trade, including sugar, slaves, and colonial enterprises in the Americas and West Africa.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b914530c8190b4474d862a2b2a1b |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e500528bb88190a9f9ba6428cc2076 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 4:18 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:34 a.m.