Triple
T19125416
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Flying Column at the Battle of Hlobane |
E468164
|
entity |
| Predicate | partOf |
P40
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British Army forces in the Anglo-Zulu War |
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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: British Army forces in the Anglo-Zulu War | Statement: [Flying Column at the Battle of Hlobane, partOf, British Army forces in the Anglo-Zulu War]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Army forces in the Anglo-Zulu War Context triple: [Flying Column at the Battle of Hlobane, partOf, British Army forces in the Anglo-Zulu War]
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A.
British forces in the Anglo-Zulu War
chosen
British forces in the Anglo-Zulu War were the imperial British Army and colonial troops deployed in southern Africa in 1879 to invade the Zulu Kingdom, culminating in a series of notable battles including Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift.
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B.
British forces in the Second Boer War
British forces in the Second Boer War were the imperial troops of the United Kingdom that fought from 1899 to 1902 to suppress the Boer republics in South Africa and secure British control over the region.
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C.
Zulu Army
The Zulu Army was the highly disciplined and formidable military force of the Zulu Kingdom in southern Africa, renowned for its tactical innovations and major victories during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.
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D.
British South Africa Company forces
The British South Africa Company forces were the private colonial troops of Cecil Rhodes’s chartered company, used to expand and police British interests in southern Africa in the late 19th century.
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E.
British colonial forces in East Africa
British colonial forces in East Africa were the military units of the British Empire responsible for asserting and maintaining imperial control across East African territories during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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_69d8dd0796a48190b34ce4cd9d3f3be5 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5e3cc5ba08190a1073f2836caf5d3 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 8:29 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:05 p.m.