Triple
T2549210
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Smithfield district, Orange Free State |
E57978
|
entity |
| Predicate | sovereignStateDuringLaterPeriod |
P11777
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Orange River Colony |
E158136
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Orange River Colony | Statement: [Smithfield district, Orange Free State, sovereignStateDuringLaterPeriod, Orange River Colony]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Orange River Colony Context triple: [Smithfield district, Orange Free State, sovereignStateDuringLaterPeriod, Orange River Colony]
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A.
Orange River Colony
chosen
The Orange River Colony was a British colony in southern Africa established after the Second Boer War, later becoming the province of the Orange Free State in the Union of South Africa.
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B.
Placentia colony
Placentia colony was an ancient Roman settlement in northern Italy that served as a strategic military and commercial hub in the Po Valley.
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C.
Swan River Colony
Swan River Colony was an early 19th-century British settlement on the west coast of Australia that evolved into the city of Perth and the surrounding region of Western Australia.
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D.
Red River Colony
The Red River Colony was an early 19th-century agricultural settlement in what is now Manitoba, Canada, that became a focal point of Métis culture and resistance and played a key role in the region’s path to joining the Canadian Confederation.
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E.
Colony of New Brunswick
The Colony of New Brunswick was a British North American province on Canada’s Atlantic coast that existed from 1784 until it joined Confederation as the province of New Brunswick in 1867.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: sovereignStateDuringLaterPeriod Context triple: [Smithfield district, Orange Free State, sovereignStateDuringLaterPeriod, Orange River Colony]
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A.
sovereignStateDuring
chosen
Indicates that one entity functioned as the sovereign state governing another entity during a specified time period.
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B.
sovereignState
Indicates that an entity is recognized as an independent, self-governing state with ultimate authority over its territory and not subject to any higher political power.
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C.
denotesSovereignState
Indicates that one entity designates or identifies another entity as a sovereign, independent state.
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D.
hasSovereignState
Indicates that one entity is the sovereign state that has ultimate authority or jurisdiction over another entity.
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E.
sovereigntyStatus
Indicates the degree and type of political independence or control an entity holds over its own territory and governance.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (4 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_69ab4a5212d88190b989ce129f2ad87f |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abd5a33234819082ad49fa6594b6be |
completed | March 7, 2026, 7:37 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69af5d114964819092b847c701a0704e |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11:51 p.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69abd0c8b6f08190a68645db3e8b779a |
completed | March 7, 2026, 7:16 a.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.