Triple
T19659116
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | People’s Republic of Zanzibar |
E472030
|
entity |
| Predicate | followedBy |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object | United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar |
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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: United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar | Statement: [People’s Republic of Zanzibar, followedBy, United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar Context triple: [People’s Republic of Zanzibar, followedBy, United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar]
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A.
People’s Republic of Zanzibar
The People’s Republic of Zanzibar was a short-lived socialist state established after the 1964 revolution that overthrew the Sultanate of Zanzibar, before it merged with Tanganyika to form Tanzania.
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B.
Union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar
chosen
The Union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar was the 1964 political merger of the mainland territory of Tanganyika and the island nation of Zanzibar that created the modern state of Tanzania.
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C.
Sultanate of Zanzibar
The Sultanate of Zanzibar was a 19th- and early 20th-century Indian Ocean island state ruled by an Omani Arab dynasty, known for its clove trade, strategic coastal position, and role in East African commerce and the slave trade.
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D.
Tanzania
Tanzania is an East African nation known for its vast wilderness areas, including the Serengeti National Park and Mount Kilimanjaro, as well as its rich cultural diversity.
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E.
British Tanganyika
British Tanganyika was the British-administered mandate and later trust territory in East Africa that governed the region of present-day mainland Tanzania between World War I and independence.
- 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_69d8e51395348190ac1416d46dfc6db0 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:54 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e641485ce481908b3860fa5e3a9f6e |
completed | April 20, 2026, 3:07 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:45 p.m.