Triple

T4849765
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject West African Frontier Force E108383 entity
Predicate componentUnit P11709 FINISHED
Object Gambia Company
The Gambia Company was a British colonial military unit that formed part of the West African Frontier Force, recruited and deployed in the Gambia region.
E473562 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: Gambia Company | Statement: [West African Frontier Force, componentUnit, Gambia Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gambia Company
Context triple: [West African Frontier Force, componentUnit, Gambia Company]
  • A. 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.
  • 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. River Company of the Caribbean
    River Company of the Caribbean is the riverboat shipping firm in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "Love in the Time of Cholera" that employs the protagonist Florentino Ariza.
  • D. Somers Isles Company
    The Somers Isles Company was an English chartered company that administered and exploited the colony of Bermuda (then called the Somers Isles) in the 17th century.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Gambia Company
Triple: [West African Frontier Force, componentUnit, Gambia Company]
Generated description
The Gambia Company was a British colonial military unit that formed part of the West African Frontier Force, recruited and deployed in the Gambia region.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gambia Company
Target entity description: The Gambia Company was a British colonial military unit that formed part of the West African Frontier Force, recruited and deployed in the Gambia region.
  • A. 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.
  • 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. River Company of the Caribbean
    River Company of the Caribbean is the riverboat shipping firm in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "Love in the Time of Cholera" that employs the protagonist Florentino Ariza.
  • D. Somers Isles Company
    The Somers Isles Company was an English chartered company that administered and exploited the colony of Bermuda (then called the Somers Isles) in the 17th century.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69bd440a89548190a5f14ba6da6b97dc completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d1e5cf08190bd6b6a524748f170 completed March 20, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be5cdafb3481908594ae883c6e9872 completed March 21, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be5d4f2f908190b305996875f1f956 completed March 21, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be5dcbb58c8190bbcf75c570720ad6 completed March 21, 2026, 8:58 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:25 p.m.