Triple

T23300458
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ceylon Civil Service E590287 entity
Predicate country P26 FINISHED
Object British Ceylon — 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 Ceylon | Statement: [Ceylon Civil Service, country, British Ceylon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: British Ceylon
Context triple: [Ceylon Civil Service, country, British Ceylon]
  • A. British Ceylon chosen
    British Ceylon was the British colonial possession in the Indian Ocean that encompassed the island of present-day Sri Lanka from the late 18th century until its independence in 1948.
  • B. Sri Lankan British
    Sri Lankan British are people in the United Kingdom of Sri Lankan origin or descent, forming a distinct diaspora community with cultural ties to both Sri Lanka and Britain.
  • C. Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon)
    Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon) was a former Dutch colonial territory on the island of Sri Lanka, controlled mainly for its strategic ports and lucrative cinnamon trade from the mid-17th to late 18th century.
  • D. Crown Colony of Ceylon
    The Crown Colony of Ceylon was a British colonial possession in South Asia that existed from the early 19th century until its independence as Sri Lanka in 1948.
  • E. Dominion of Ceylon
    The Dominion of Ceylon was a British Commonwealth realm in South Asia that existed from 1948 to 1972, when it became the fully independent republic of Sri Lanka.
  • 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_69e25d1c0ecc8190a355aa229f06d0e0 completed April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f196d2b5dc819084b4d0290184de62 completed April 29, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:04 p.m.