Triple

T2063075
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New Zealand European E45834 entity
Predicate historicalConnection P7843 FINISHED
Object British colonisation of New Zealand
The British colonisation of New Zealand was the 19th-century process by which Britain established political control and large-scale European settlement in New Zealand, profoundly reshaping the land’s governance, demographics, and Māori society.
E228582 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: British colonisation of New Zealand | Statement: [New Zealand European, historicalConnection, British colonisation of New Zealand]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British colonisation of New Zealand
Context triple: [New Zealand European, historicalConnection, British colonisation of New Zealand]
  • A. Dominions of the British Empire
    The Dominions of the British Empire were semi-autonomous, self-governing polities within the British Empire—such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—that recognized the British monarch as head of state while managing their own internal affairs.
  • B. Treaty of Waitangi
    The Treaty of Waitangi is an 1840 agreement between the British Crown and many Māori chiefs that is regarded as New Zealand’s founding document and a central reference point for its law, politics, and race relations.
  • C. New Zealand anti-nuclear policy
    The New Zealand anti-nuclear policy is a national stance adopted in the 1980s that bans nuclear-armed or nuclear-powered vessels from its territory and territorial waters, effectively making the country a nuclear-free zone and reshaping its defense and foreign relations.
  • D. New Zealand Collection
    The New Zealand Collection is a specialized garden area within the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria that showcases plant species native to New Zealand’s unique flora.
  • E. Realm of New Zealand
    The Realm of New Zealand is the sovereign domain under the New Zealand monarch that encompasses New Zealand and its associated territories, including the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, and the Ross Dependency in Antarctica.
  • 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: British colonisation of New Zealand
Triple: [New Zealand European, historicalConnection, British colonisation of New Zealand]
Generated description
The British colonisation of New Zealand was the 19th-century process by which Britain established political control and large-scale European settlement in New Zealand, profoundly reshaping the land’s governance, demographics, and Māori society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British colonisation of New Zealand
Target entity description: The British colonisation of New Zealand was the 19th-century process by which Britain established political control and large-scale European settlement in New Zealand, profoundly reshaping the land’s governance, demographics, and Māori society.
  • A. Dominions of the British Empire
    The Dominions of the British Empire were semi-autonomous, self-governing polities within the British Empire—such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—that recognized the British monarch as head of state while managing their own internal affairs.
  • B. Treaty of Waitangi
    The Treaty of Waitangi is an 1840 agreement between the British Crown and many Māori chiefs that is regarded as New Zealand’s founding document and a central reference point for its law, politics, and race relations.
  • C. New Zealand anti-nuclear policy
    The New Zealand anti-nuclear policy is a national stance adopted in the 1980s that bans nuclear-armed or nuclear-powered vessels from its territory and territorial waters, effectively making the country a nuclear-free zone and reshaping its defense and foreign relations.
  • D. New Zealand Collection
    The New Zealand Collection is a specialized garden area within the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria that showcases plant species native to New Zealand’s unique flora.
  • E. Realm of New Zealand
    The Realm of New Zealand is the sovereign domain under the New Zealand monarch that encompasses New Zealand and its associated territories, including the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, and the Ross Dependency in Antarctica.
  • F. None of above. chosen

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_69a8891b38288190abd572ccad9b6928 completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb9d3a92081909416c1d087876e99 completed March 7, 2026, 5:38 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae2017998c8190976c2111f140b90a completed March 9, 2026, 1:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae20b77cf081908ac4d94283202d51 completed March 9, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae213410708190af9715f488c5b8f5 completed March 9, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.