Triple

T22139480
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mpande E547118 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object British Empire in Southern Africa — 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 Empire in Southern Africa | Statement: [Mpande, associatedWith, British Empire in Southern Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: British Empire in Southern Africa
Context triple: [Mpande, associatedWith, British Empire in Southern Africa]
  • A. British Empire in South Africa chosen
    The British Empire in South Africa refers to the period of British colonial expansion, rule, and conflict in the region, including the annexation of territories and wars with Boer republics and indigenous peoples from the early 19th to early 20th centuries.
  • B. British Empire in Africa
    The British Empire in Africa was the vast network of territories and colonies controlled by Britain across the African continent, established through chartered companies, treaties, and military conquest from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries.
  • C. British South Africa
    British South Africa refers to the territories in southern Africa that were under British colonial rule, including regions that later became countries such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi.
  • D. British Protectorate of Basutoland
    The British Protectorate of Basutoland was a southern African territory under British colonial rule from the late 19th century until 1966, when it gained independence as the Kingdom of Lesotho.
  • E. South African occupation of South West Africa
    The South African occupation of South West Africa was the decades-long control and administration of present-day Namibia by apartheid-era South Africa, marked by racial segregation, international disputes, and a protracted struggle for 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_69e11e3a95d88190a3bd80d9471976c3 completed April 16, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f129bc7ae881909798c64a4c19adad completed April 28, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:32 p.m.