Triple

T4781565
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nembe E106177 entity
Predicate conflictWith P4897 FINISHED
Object Royal Niger Company
The Royal Niger Company was a British chartered company that controlled trade and administered large parts of the Niger River region in the late 19th century, laying groundwork for the eventual formation of colonial Nigeria.
E470804 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: Royal Niger Company | Statement: [Nembe, conflictWith, Royal Niger Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Royal Niger Company
Context triple: [Nembe, conflictWith, Royal Niger Company]
  • A. Royal African Company
    The Royal African Company was a 17th- and 18th-century English trading company that held a monopoly over British trade on the West African coast, playing a central role in the transatlantic slave trade.
  • B. Compagnie du Sénégal
    Compagnie du Sénégal was a 17th-century French chartered trading company that played a key role in France’s early colonial and commercial activities in West Africa, particularly around the Senegal River region.
  • C. British South Africa Company
    The British South Africa Company was a chartered company founded by Cecil Rhodes that administered and exploited large areas of southern and central Africa, notably in territories that became Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. British South Sea Company
    The British South Sea Company was an early 18th-century English trading and finance corporation notorious for its role in the South Sea Bubble and its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.
  • E. French East India Company
    The French East India Company was a royal chartered trading company established by France in the 17th century to conduct commerce and expand French influence in India and the wider Indian Ocean region.
  • 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: Royal Niger Company
Triple: [Nembe, conflictWith, Royal Niger Company]
Generated description
The Royal Niger Company was a British chartered company that controlled trade and administered large parts of the Niger River region in the late 19th century, laying groundwork for the eventual formation of colonial Nigeria.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Royal Niger Company
Target entity description: The Royal Niger Company was a British chartered company that controlled trade and administered large parts of the Niger River region in the late 19th century, laying groundwork for the eventual formation of colonial Nigeria.
  • A. Royal African Company
    The Royal African Company was a 17th- and 18th-century English trading company that held a monopoly over British trade on the West African coast, playing a central role in the transatlantic slave trade.
  • B. Compagnie du Sénégal
    Compagnie du Sénégal was a 17th-century French chartered trading company that played a key role in France’s early colonial and commercial activities in West Africa, particularly around the Senegal River region.
  • C. British South Africa Company
    The British South Africa Company was a chartered company founded by Cecil Rhodes that administered and exploited large areas of southern and central Africa, notably in territories that became Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. British South Sea Company
    The British South Sea Company was an early 18th-century English trading and finance corporation notorious for its role in the South Sea Bubble and its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.
  • E. French East India Company
    The French East India Company was a royal chartered trading company established by France in the 17th century to conduct commerce and expand French influence in India and the wider Indian Ocean region.
  • 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_69bd43f3074c8190937e7b0a457fe9f1 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd65abd0a08190937102c44d102f12 completed March 20, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be43d371b081908142e6d66780e0f0 completed March 21, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be46f9aa048190a5d0ada90ee57451 completed March 21, 2026, 7:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be481013c08190b36304044a16c5f4 completed March 21, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:21 p.m.