Triple
T22369800
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | West African Pilot |
E553008
|
entity |
| Predicate | circulationArea |
P82
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Lagos Colony |
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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: Lagos Colony | Statement: [West African Pilot, circulationArea, Lagos Colony]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lagos Colony Context triple: [West African Pilot, circulationArea, Lagos Colony]
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A.
Lagos Colony
chosen
Lagos Colony was a British colonial territory centered on the port city of Lagos, which later became a key component of modern Nigeria.
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B.
Niger Coast Protectorate
The Niger Coast Protectorate was a British colonial territory in the late 19th century in what is now southern Nigeria, serving as a base for expanding British influence and trade along the West African coast.
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C.
Protectorate of Southern Nigeria
The Protectorate of Southern Nigeria was a British colonial territory in West Africa that existed in the early 20th century before being merged into the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria.
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D.
Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria
The Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria was a British colonial entity in West Africa that unified several previously separate territories into what later became the modern nation-state of Nigeria.
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E.
Dominion of Nigeria
The Dominion of Nigeria was a British Commonwealth realm that existed from Nigeria’s independence in 1960 until it became a republic in 1963, with the British monarch as its ceremonial head of state.
- 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_69e11e4affcc8190ba7c27d29062558d |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f158032b748190ad36c7e3809304e9 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 12:59 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:44 p.m.