Triple

T23217401
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Duala people E580786 entity
Predicate colonialContactWith P4255 FINISHED
Object German colonial authorities 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: German colonial authorities | Statement: [Duala people, colonialContactWith, German colonial authorities]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: German colonial authorities
Context triple: [Duala people, colonialContactWith, German colonial authorities]
  • A. Belgian colonial authorities
    Belgian colonial authorities were the European administrators who governed Belgium’s overseas territories, most notably in Central Africa, and implemented racialized policies that deeply shaped local social and political structures.
  • B. British colonial authorities
    British colonial authorities were the representatives and governing institutions of the British Crown that administered and controlled its American colonies prior to and during the American Revolution.
  • C. Imperial German Colonial Office chosen
    The Imperial German Colonial Office was the central government authority of the German Empire responsible for overseeing and managing its overseas colonies.
  • D. German colonial administration of German South West Africa
    The German colonial administration of German South West Africa was the governing authority established by the German Empire to control and administer its colony in present-day Namibia from the late 19th century until World War I.
  • E. German Colonial Society
    The German Colonial Society was a nationalist organization in the German Empire that promoted and lobbied for overseas colonial expansion and the consolidation of German colonial rule in Africa and the Pacific.
  • 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_69e2460389408190be74f41d217799a9 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1916653f08190a7dcbc659c6b6a25 completed April 29, 2026, 5:04 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:08 p.m.