Triple
T4726298
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Tanganyika |
E104892
|
entity |
| Predicate | colonialPredecessor |
P4289
|
FINISHED |
| Object | German East Africa |
E150213
|
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: German East Africa | Statement: [Tanganyika, colonialPredecessor, German East Africa]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: German East Africa Context triple: [Tanganyika, colonialPredecessor, German East Africa]
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A.
German East Africa
chosen
German East Africa was a former German colonial territory in East Africa, encompassing present-day Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and parts of Mozambique, that existed from the late 19th century until the end of World War I.
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B.
German Kamerun
German Kamerun was a German colonial territory in Central Africa from the 1880s until World War I, encompassing much of present-day Cameroon and parts of neighboring countries.
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C.
French Equatorial Africa
French Equatorial Africa was a federation of French colonial territories in central Africa that served as an important political and military base for Free French forces during World War II.
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D.
Italian East Africa
Italian East Africa was a short-lived colonial empire in the Horn of Africa under Fascist Italian rule, formed in the late 1930s by uniting Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Italian Somaliland.
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E.
Rhodesia
Rhodesia was an unrecognized, white-minority-ruled state in southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979 in the territory of modern-day Zimbabwe.
- 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_69bd43ed84648190ae0b7ee8e8d00482 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd6446b42081908e023979c9685730 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 3:14 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be109c67648190ba9bda7fc5cb3dd1 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 3:29 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:18 p.m.