Triple

T1961492
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject High Commissioner for Southern Africa E42596 entity
Predicate appliesToJurisdiction P82 FINISHED
Object Nyasaland
Nyasaland was a former British protectorate in southeastern Africa, roughly corresponding to present-day Malawi, that existed under colonial rule until gaining independence in 1964.
E164716 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: Nyasaland | Statement: [High Commissioner for Southern Africa, appliesToJurisdiction, Nyasaland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nyasaland
Context triple: [High Commissioner for Southern Africa, appliesToJurisdiction, Nyasaland]
  • A. Rhodesia
    Rhodesia was an unrecognized, white-minority-ruled state in southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979 in the territory of modern-day Zimbabwe.
  • B. Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
    The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was a mid-20th-century semi-autonomous colonial union in southern Africa that combined the territories of modern-day Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi under British rule.
  • C. Bechuanaland Protectorate
    The Bechuanaland Protectorate was a British colonial territory in Southern Africa that existed from the late 19th century until it gained independence as the Republic of Botswana in 1966.
  • D. Transvaal
    Transvaal was a former Boer republic and later British colony in what is now northeastern South Africa, central to the conflicts and politics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Kwaluseni
    Kwaluseni is a town in Eswatini known primarily as the main campus site of the University of Eswatini.
  • 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: Nyasaland
Triple: [High Commissioner for Southern Africa, appliesToJurisdiction, Nyasaland]
Generated description
Nyasaland was a former British protectorate in southeastern Africa, roughly corresponding to present-day Malawi, that existed under colonial rule until gaining independence in 1964.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nyasaland
Target entity description: Nyasaland was a former British protectorate in southeastern Africa, roughly corresponding to present-day Malawi, that existed under colonial rule until gaining independence in 1964.
  • A. Rhodesia
    Rhodesia was an unrecognized, white-minority-ruled state in southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979 in the territory of modern-day Zimbabwe.
  • B. Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland chosen
    The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was a mid-20th-century semi-autonomous colonial union in southern Africa that combined the territories of modern-day Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi under British rule.
  • C. Bechuanaland Protectorate
    The Bechuanaland Protectorate was a British colonial territory in Southern Africa that existed from the late 19th century until it gained independence as the Republic of Botswana in 1966.
  • D. Transvaal
    Transvaal was a former Boer republic and later British colony in what is now northeastern South Africa, central to the conflicts and politics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Kwaluseni
    Kwaluseni is a town in Eswatini known primarily as the main campus site of the University of Eswatini.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a88711151c8190940b2572095059d7 completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb3aae8c48190afae2cf3af2ae4e9 completed March 7, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae2702954c8190b95de378e263574a completed March 9, 2026, 1:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae27b2c9d08190b1950abd8d41d3b3 completed March 9, 2026, 1:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae2817ce3c81908e48170760cf98ef completed March 9, 2026, 1:53 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.