Triple

T5786231
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Benin Bronzes E128274 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object British punitive expedition to Benin City in 1897 E345737 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: British punitive expedition to Benin City in 1897 | Statement: [Benin Bronzes, significantEvent, British punitive expedition to Benin City in 1897]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: British punitive expedition to Benin City in 1897
Context triple: [Benin Bronzes, significantEvent, British punitive expedition to Benin City in 1897]
  • A. Benin Expedition of 1897 chosen
    The Benin Expedition of 1897 was a British punitive military campaign that led to the violent conquest and looting of the Kingdom of Benin in present-day Nigeria, resulting in the exile of its oba and the dispersal of the famed Benin Bronzes.
  • B. Fashoda Incident
    The Fashoda Incident was an 1898 imperial confrontation between Britain and France in Sudan that nearly triggered war and symbolized the climax of their colonial rivalry in Africa.
  • C. Abeokuta wars
    The Abeokuta wars were 19th-century conflicts in what is now southwestern Nigeria, in which the Egba people defended the city of Abeokuta against repeated attacks from neighboring powers such as the Dahomey kingdom.
  • D. Nembe–Brass War
    The Nembe–Brass War was a late 19th-century conflict in the Niger Delta between the Nembe people and the British-backed Royal Niger Company, reflecting resistance to colonial economic and political domination.
  • E. British Ultimatum of 1890
    The British Ultimatum of 1890 was a diplomatic demand by the United Kingdom that forced Portugal to abandon its colonial ambitions of linking Angola and Mozambique in southern Africa, triggering a major political crisis and nationalist backlash in Portugal.
  • 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_69c0084450048190bc647b649a05136b completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02a1c29d48190af36cc855bb491dd completed March 22, 2026, 5:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c09815e5c08190a01ffad813e9d195 completed March 23, 2026, 1:32 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:51 p.m.