Triple
T3534001
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Tomé de Sousa |
E74725
|
entity |
| Predicate | countryOfActivity |
P6725
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Colonial Brazil |
E71074
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Colonial Brazil | Statement: [Tomé de Sousa, countryOfActivity, Colonial Brazil]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonial Brazil Context triple: [Tomé de Sousa, countryOfActivity, Colonial Brazil]
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A.
Portuguese America
chosen
Portuguese America was the collective term for Portugal’s colonial possessions in the Americas, primarily encompassing the territory that later became Brazil.
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B.
Dutch Brazil
Dutch Brazil was a short-lived 17th-century Dutch colony in northeastern Brazil, centered on Recife, that served as a key hub for the Atlantic sugar and slave trades.
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C.
Regency period in Brazil
The Regency period in Brazil (1831–1840) was a turbulent transitional era marked by regency governments ruling in place of the underage Emperor Pedro II, characterized by political instability, regional revolts, and the consolidation of the Brazilian Empire.
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D.
Portuguese Empire
The Portuguese Empire was a vast global maritime and colonial power, spanning territories in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas from the 15th to the 20th century.
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E.
Empire of Brazil
The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century constitutional monarchy in South America that emerged after independence from Portugal and lasted until the proclamation of the republic in 1889.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ad85d1a3948190931fd1ea1f49717b |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adbc9cff5c81909011f34c9bf28e11 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:14 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b37e9c408481909a808d400f545ff8 |
completed | March 13, 2026, 3:03 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:19 p.m.