Triple

T5238715
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject South African Republic E118286 entity
Predicate borderedBy P224 FINISHED
Object Portuguese East Africa
Portuguese East Africa was a former Portuguese colony in southeastern Africa, largely corresponding to present-day Mozambique.
E505633 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: Portuguese East Africa | Statement: [South African Republic, borderedBy, Portuguese East Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portuguese East Africa
Context triple: [South African Republic, borderedBy, Portuguese East Africa]
  • A. Dutch Angola
    Dutch Angola was a short-lived 17th-century Dutch colonial foothold on the west coast of Central Africa, centered on Luanda and primarily focused on the Atlantic slave trade.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Cabinda
    Cabinda is a small, oil-rich province on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa that is geographically separated from the rest of Angola by a strip of territory belonging to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • D. 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.
  • E. German East Africa
    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.
  • 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: Portuguese East Africa
Triple: [South African Republic, borderedBy, Portuguese East Africa]
Generated description
Portuguese East Africa was a former Portuguese colony in southeastern Africa, largely corresponding to present-day Mozambique.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portuguese East Africa
Target entity description: Portuguese East Africa was a former Portuguese colony in southeastern Africa, largely corresponding to present-day Mozambique.
  • A. Dutch Angola
    Dutch Angola was a short-lived 17th-century Dutch colonial foothold on the west coast of Central Africa, centered on Luanda and primarily focused on the Atlantic slave trade.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Cabinda
    Cabinda is a small, oil-rich province on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa that is geographically separated from the rest of Angola by a strip of territory belonging to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • D. 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.
  • E. German East Africa
    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.
  • 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_69bd4467db0881909b3b0982df32cc8f completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7b290b88819095bc99c234260d25 completed March 20, 2026, 4:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bef823afd88190a3a41e7fff09d449 completed March 21, 2026, 7:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bef933c4008190bea3a5a7e5de17e6 completed March 21, 2026, 8:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bef9a600908190bdaff60b7a514538 completed March 21, 2026, 8:03 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:49 p.m.