Triple
T20580299
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Portuguese East Africa |
E505633
|
entity |
| Predicate | borderedBy |
P224
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Nyasaland |
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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: Nyasaland | Statement: [Portuguese East Africa, borderedBy, Nyasaland]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nyasaland Context triple: [Portuguese East Africa, borderedBy, Nyasaland]
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A.
Nyasaland
chosen
Nyasaland was a former British protectorate in southeastern Africa that later became the independent nation of Malawi in 1964.
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B.
Northern Rhodesia
Northern Rhodesia was a former British protectorate in south-central Africa that later became the independent nation of Zambia in 1964.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- 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_69e0b4b9669c8190b8e81fc72817d42c |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6a90dd3e881908915debe1f1e8509 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 10:30 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:39 a.m.