Triple

T2462916
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British South Africa Company E54573 entity
Predicate involvedInConflict P1406 FINISHED
Object Shona uprisings of 1896–1897
The Shona uprisings of 1896–1897 were a major anti-colonial revolt by the Shona people in what is now Zimbabwe, resisting European conquest and administration during the early period of British colonial rule.
E268354 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: Shona uprisings of 1896–1897 | Statement: [British South Africa Company, involvedInConflict, Shona uprisings of 1896–1897]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shona uprisings of 1896–1897
Context triple: [British South Africa Company, involvedInConflict, Shona uprisings of 1896–1897]
  • A. Basuto Wars
    The Basuto Wars were a series of 19th-century conflicts in southern Africa between the Basotho people and neighboring Boer republics, primarily over land and political control.
  • B. Xhosa Wars
    The Xhosa Wars were a series of 19th-century frontier conflicts in South Africa between the Xhosa peoples and European colonial powers, primarily the British, over land and political control in the Eastern Cape region.
  • C. Murder of Piet Retief
    The Murder of Piet Retief was a pivotal 1838 killing of the Voortrekker leader and his delegation by Zulu King Dingane, an event that dramatically escalated conflict during the Great Trek in South Africa.
  • D. Anglo-Zulu War
    The Anglo-Zulu War was an 1879 conflict in southern Africa between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom, marked by famous battles such as Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift and resulting in the eventual defeat and dismantling of the Zulu state.
  • E. Zanzibar Revolution
    The Zanzibar Revolution was a 1964 uprising that overthrew the Sultanate of Zanzibar and led to the island’s merger with Tanganyika to form modern Tanzania.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Shona uprisings of 1896–1897
Triple: [British South Africa Company, involvedInConflict, Shona uprisings of 1896–1897]
Generated description
The Shona uprisings of 1896–1897 were a major anti-colonial revolt by the Shona people in what is now Zimbabwe, resisting European conquest and administration during the early period of British colonial rule.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shona uprisings of 1896–1897
Target entity description: The Shona uprisings of 1896–1897 were a major anti-colonial revolt by the Shona people in what is now Zimbabwe, resisting European conquest and administration during the early period of British colonial rule.
  • A. Basuto Wars
    The Basuto Wars were a series of 19th-century conflicts in southern Africa between the Basotho people and neighboring Boer republics, primarily over land and political control.
  • B. Xhosa Wars
    The Xhosa Wars were a series of 19th-century frontier conflicts in South Africa between the Xhosa peoples and European colonial powers, primarily the British, over land and political control in the Eastern Cape region.
  • C. Murder of Piet Retief
    The Murder of Piet Retief was a pivotal 1838 killing of the Voortrekker leader and his delegation by Zulu King Dingane, an event that dramatically escalated conflict during the Great Trek in South Africa.
  • D. Anglo-Zulu War
    The Anglo-Zulu War was an 1879 conflict in southern Africa between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom, marked by famous battles such as Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift and resulting in the eventual defeat and dismantling of the Zulu state.
  • E. Zanzibar Revolution
    The Zanzibar Revolution was a 1964 uprising that overthrew the Sultanate of Zanzibar and led to the island’s merger with Tanganyika to form modern Tanzania.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69ab49dee84c819096b50a0049c347ac completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd11f093c8190877db3026d430bd5 completed March 7, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aef0d561a081909310113658b98f12 completed March 9, 2026, 4:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aef8380d24819092b6502117a8ed42 completed March 9, 2026, 4:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aef936b86c81908573ea73314fe6a9 completed March 9, 2026, 4:45 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.