Triple
T23460578
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Zimbabwe Republic Police |
E568962
|
entity |
| Predicate | precededBy |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British South Africa Police |
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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: British South Africa Police | Statement: [Zimbabwe Republic Police, precededBy, British South Africa Police]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British South Africa Police Context triple: [Zimbabwe Republic Police, precededBy, British South Africa Police]
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A.
British South Africa Police
chosen
The British South Africa Police was the paramilitary police force of colonial Rhodesia, serving both as a national law enforcement agency and a key arm of the regime’s internal security and military operations.
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B.
Rhodesian Security Forces
The Rhodesian Security Forces were the military and police organizations of the unrecognized state of Rhodesia, central to its counterinsurgency efforts during the Rhodesian Bush War (1964–1979).
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C.
British South Africa Company forces
The British South Africa Company forces were the private colonial troops of Cecil Rhodes’s chartered company, used to expand and police British interests in southern Africa in the late 19th century.
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D.
Indian Imperial Police
The Indian Imperial Police was the British colonial-era police force in India responsible for law enforcement and maintaining order before independence.
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E.
South African Police Service
The South African Police Service is the national law enforcement agency responsible for maintaining public order, preventing and investigating crime, and enforcing the law throughout South Africa.
- 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_69e2458ebd808190b3298163132cfb0b |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1a69afba88190b1b1dd27d331309f |
completed | April 29, 2026, 6:35 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:53 p.m.