Triple

T5689214
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Northeast Region of Brazil E125386 entity
Predicate historicalEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Portuguese colonization of 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: Portuguese colonization of Brazil | Statement: [Northeast Region of Brazil, historicalEvent, Portuguese colonization of Brazil]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Portuguese colonization of Brazil
Context triple: [Northeast Region of Brazil, historicalEvent, Portuguese colonization of Brazil]
  • 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.
  • B. Portuguese expansion in the Indian Ocean
    Portuguese expansion in the Indian Ocean was a 16th-century maritime and military campaign through which Portugal established a network of fortified trading posts and naval dominance over key spice and trade routes between Africa and Asia.
  • C. Captaincy of Bahia
    The Captaincy of Bahia was a major colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil centered on the important coastal city of Salvador, which served as an early capital and key political, economic, and military hub in the region.
  • D. Luso-Dutch War in Brazil
    The Luso-Dutch War in Brazil was a 17th-century conflict between Portugal and the Dutch Republic over control of colonial territories and lucrative sugar-producing regions in northeastern Brazil.
  • E. Portuguese expansion into North Africa
    Portuguese expansion into North Africa was a series of early 15th- and 16th-century military and maritime campaigns through which Portugal seized key coastal cities and fortresses across the Maghreb, laying foundations for its wider overseas empire.
  • 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_69c0082bb19c8190823a4facd3cba79b completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c023e1c6148190aeae7620bd9ee9d4 completed March 22, 2026, 5:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c05a47457c8190bc75f11a7f011a8a completed March 22, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:44 p.m.